Full Episode Notes: http://www.occasionallyinteresting.com/episode-3-dr-prash/
In this episode we speak with Dr. Prash, a medical doctor, CEO of a Cryptocurrency brokerage, leading researcher into the relationship of psychiatry and psychedelics, and more.
In this episode we discuss:
- Dr. Prash dreams of a more psychadelic world
- The intersection and future of psychedelics and medicine
- The intersection of cryptocurrency and philosophy
- Being a renaissance man - specializing versus broad knowledge
- He was originally going to be a surgeon, but ended up being more fascinated by the mind than the body, and got into psychiatry because of psychedelics
- Psychedelics are having a resurgence in the therapists office and in silicon valley
- Dr. Prash is an advocate for cognitive liberty - “We should be able to think to the potential limits of what we could potentially think, have the freedom to explore what we possibly can explore."
- How ketamine differs from psychedelics and works as a treatment for depression.
- What and where is the mind?
- Psychosomatic symptoms - is there a separation of body and mind?
- Cryptocurrency and psychedelics are philosophically aligned with common goals
- Could cyrptocurrency be the savior of psychadellic research?
- What is the value of currency?
- Dr Prash is a hippie in a suit
- “We are the combination of the hippie and the hustle”