Suppressing Ego and Universal Connections

This morning, The Witches Voice posted an article on their FB page about a recent study of shrooms, you know, the kind that people use to "trip".

In this study, it was discovered that the hallucinogen found  in the mushrooms, psilocybin, actually suppressed key activity areas of the brain, in contrast to the belief that it created and activated new connections, thus "opening the mind".

Specifically, psilocybin suppressed an area of the human brain that scientists refer to as the "default mode network", a part that they don't quite understand how it operates, but is responsible for "a balanced sense of consciousness and ego through self-reflection".

This really got my brain whirling.  In a very scientific answer, I saw a spiritual revelation, an epiphany, if you will.  Many religions in the world talk about letting go "of yourself" and letting Divinity take control of the situation in order to "feel" Divinity.

I'm a huge believer in personal empowerment and mind over matter.  I believe that we have that divine spark that dwells within us that allows us to manifest and to create change. 

Is it possible for us to use meditation and essentially suppress this "default mode network" through sheer force of will?  Why not?  Buddhists monks can regulate their heart beats, blood pressure and more utilizing meditation.

So perhaps the problem with us being able to connect to the Universal Conciseness isn't a problem with not having enough personal power, but too much Ego, too much awareness of self?  To much focus and involvement in the local stimuli of our environment that inhibits us from performing what we naturally do, connect with everything around us, intuitively?  Our evolved minds hinder and prohibit our innate connection to nature?

People that use these shrooms describe "a oneness with everything around them and the Universe".  In this study, one individual felt that were kneeling at God's feet.

So the next time you are performing meditation, charging and cleansing your chakras, try visualizing yourself being released.  Try shutting down this center of self.  Let's take this and make it our own spiritual experiment and sacrifice our will for that of Spirit (insert your Patron of Faith here) and let's see what happens...