Raghu is joined by Rick Doblin, head of (take a deep breath for this one) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, otherwise known as MAPS!

Rick describes some of the things that helped him to see into a new reality, including his faith-puncturing Bar Mitzvah, which forced him out of what would have been a “manufactured” mystical connection.

Rick then goes on to describe his introduction to LSD in college, and how he discovered a new way of processing information and consciousness from those experiences; it opened him up to the emotional world.

Other topics discussed include:

- The emotional stability of our culture

-  Using psychedelics for healing and therapy

- Using psychedelics to rail against the “us” and “them” rhetoric present between countries, religions, races and creeds.

-  Doblin’s discovery of the underground psychedelic community

- How LSD opened the “Westerners” up to to a visceral understanding of their time with Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji) when they traveled to India

- How do the subjects of the “Good Friday” experiment look back on their psychedelic experiences today?

- How does MDMA work?

- What is The Theory of Causal Indifference?

- How can psychedelics help with PTSD and other trauma?

 

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