People experiencing depression can find themselves feeling more and more disconnected, from others, from their own feelings. In an extreme case, a person can look at a beautiful landscape, know intellectually that it is beautiful, and have no sensation of beauty.

When we begin to negate our own emotions, hiding more and more from them, we step a path that might lead us further and further from self-knowledge.

In some studies by Dr. Rosalind Watts and others, scientists and subjects explored the role of psilocybin in facilitating connection, to the point where people started chatting to strangers about the most profound aspects of their lives, or they experience being a part of nature, rather than seeing it as an object to look at.

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