A researcher studying traumatic brain injury and the potential use of psychedelics for TBI-related problems joins us today! Here we discuss the potential risks, benefits, and mechanisms of various drugs during discrete phases of TBI

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Katherine is a medical student from Stanford who was also a winner in the recent PsychedelX competition. We chat about spirituality and psychosis. Haley Dourron joins us as a cohost as well!

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The wonderful Manesh Girn appeared as a guest for this episode! He is known for his YouTube channel "The Psychedelic Scientist". We discuss various hot topics in the psychedelic research world and then later explore subjective experiences he's had.

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Come observe my cringey voice-acting in a dystopian short about the race to singularity and the hedonistic imperative. This was created a long time ago and now it has been updated for quality! I also created all of the music in this, which can be found on any music app by searching Gaej. Most of it is from the album Diality.

Warning, this is dark. Rated R The story is mostly cartoony and inoffensive though. It does not describe anything in detail and is mostly a conceptual ethical conundrum.

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This writer is one of the inspirations for the ideas in Flicker and Cognitive Atomization. We explore a ton of different psychedelic ideas about how they work, what they do, how this influences society, how perception works, and more!

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Kevin Ronca has arrived as a guest! An eye-opening exploration of the way addiction shapes our lives and how this underlies the stability of our lives, yet also traps us in behavioral scripts. Our civilization is a system of addictive processes being exploited in both mutualistic and parasitic ways.

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Psychedelics are true, society is false. What is even real? Ph.D. student Haley Dourron joins me to discuss her ideas on psychedelics, schizophrenia, society, and reality. I loved where this discussion went towards the end!

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Today we chat with the creator of the new documentary DMT Quest! He is also an independent DMT/psychedelics researcher. This conversation got into all kinds of interesting places.

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A friend of mine, Derek Hetzler of the Reach and Reflect podcast, came onto the show and we talk about various topics, from alien curiosity, afterlife, consciousness, psychedelics, and how social media influences our world today. Towards the end, the viewers come into the conversation!

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People sometimes claim that psychedelics give a false sense of insight. Or that they generate bad or false insights. I challenge this claim by showing that insights are generally false and that delusional ideas are normal. Our society operates through hierarchies of authority on knowledge and most people do not think of insights or original thoughts, but instead, they submit to what experts tell them to believe. Having original thoughts is the domain of experts and psychedelics simply disinhibit our thinking.

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https://mad.science.blog/2020/02/13/delusion/

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