Psychedelic scholar and Word Up favorite, Robert Forte, returned to the podcast to talk about the early days of microdosing and how “the secret that everybody knew” became a tech bro fad/multi-illion dollar psyop.

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Show notes:

• Micro-dosing: "the secret everybody knew"
• “Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience” by Steven Siff
• 'Father of Microdosing'- James Fadiman & LSD
• Insertion of micro-dosing into social arena via media
• Placebo to clinical effects
• CIA & the Psychedelic Renaissance
• 1960’s Anti-war movement- Weathermen Underground
• Psychedelic psy-op as gov’t mind control
• ‘Severity of initiation’ studies
• Mysticism and formation of cults
• Podcasters- agents for control or seekers of truth
• Current micro-dosing trend- helpful or harmful?
• Zuckerberg- modelling “only happy/no shadow-work"
• Psychedelics aren’t for everybody- “the rich get richer"
• The Upanishads- micro-dosing is a personal exploration
• Ayahuasca- perversion of a sacred shamanistic practice
• Impermanence of life
• “Christianization” of psychedelics