Entheogen

- Roland Griffiths, trained as a behaviorist and holding senior appointments in psychiatry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, is one of the nation’s leading drug-addiction researchers. Pollan quoting Griffiths: “There is such a sense of authority that comes out of the primary mystical experience that it can be threatening to existing hierarchical structures. We ended up demonizing these compounds. Can you think of another area of science regarded as so dangerous and taboo that all

An Interview with Albert Hofmann by Michael Horowitz in 1976. Eleusinian Mysteries Psychotomimetic María Sabina Albert Hofmann's Letter to Steve Jobs

- Meriana's work: preparing and processing - techniques for protection and optimization of a trip - Bruce Lee; superheroes as archetypal guides or guardians to be called upon during altered states - personifying LSD, mushrooms, and ayahuasca - LSD: that's you. That's your shit. Deal with it. (Can cover a lot. Can be cold about it.) - Mushrooms: the little brothers, jokers. This is your shit and this is how it's funny. Lightness. The universe is a cosmic joke. Intelligent. Caring. At higher

Recorded on January 19th, 2015 - Francis Crick, Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, deduced the double-helix structure of DNA: may have been influenced by LSD. - Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR, a scientific breakthrough that accelerated the sequencing of the human genome: "I found it to be a mind-opening experience. It was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took. [...] What if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR? I don't know. I doubt it. I

The feeling that it is permanent The 3x5 reorientation card: "your name is ___, you live on earth, you took a drug tonight... it will probably end within 24 hours." Haphazard ego death Kevin's tongue-numbing minty multi-dose No one has ever died from it

Is the psychedelic experience "real"? Does that question have merit? Is taking entheogens "cheating"? Why do people think so? Is the entheogenic experience comparable to experiences achievable through meditation, yoga, shamanic drumming, etc., or is it substantively different?

Brad, Kevin, and Joe discuss: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans - and you're next Stanislav Grof, 1975: "psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology or the telescope is for astronomy”. Professor David Nutt: "I think it's the worst censorship of research since the Catholic Church banned the telescope.” See also: Nutt calls the outlaw of entheogens "the worst case of

- Kevin discusses his first encounter with the word Entheogen - we discuss a recent article in the Daily Beast: Psychedelics Are Ready for a Comeback, featuring an interview with Tom Shroder, author of the new book, Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal "The whole idea that it was creating a generation of ‘valueless zombies’ or something or that healthy people would go crazy from taking one dose of psychedelics was never justified by the facts. It was never as dangerous as many other