By Loch Kelly — 2015
Contrary to popular belief, you can’t be in the present moment.
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In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...
New research underlines the wisdom of being absorbed in what you do
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