“What Antero, I think, really brought to the table with the relationship between upper and lower is like, okay, you’ve had this powerful psychedelic experience. That’s great. Congratulations. So what? Oh, well, here, maybe it’s exposed some gaps in my lower circuits. So now I can go work on that… or now that I’ve worked on the lower circuits, that opens me up to more higher consciousness, upper circuit experiences.”

– Mike Gathers

On the book, How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett…

“… the main takeaway: a lot of what we’re calling emotions are actually our 3rd Circuit concept of emotions, and that you really need to get below that because that’s not emotion. You have to get below that to the felt sense experience of the emotion… you know, half of what we’re talking about when we talk about emotions, we’re just playing in the 3rd circuit conceptual realm, and that we really need to drop deeper into the felt sense realm and shed some of these conceptual models.”

– Mike Gathers