2. That's an Old Story

Cover Story

New York Magazine

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Lily visits the Ecuadorian Amazon to work on a project when something terrible happens to her. She barely escapes and makes it home alive. But it’s what happens next that really sets the course of her life. Meanwhile, the psychedelic renaissance is really starting to take off. Credits Cover Story is a production of New York magazine. Power Trip is co-created, produced and reported by David Nickles and Lily Kay Ross. Hosted and produced by iO Tillett Wright. Senior producers are Marianne McCune and Whitney Jones. Also produced by Tarkor Zehn and Liza Yeager. Executive producer and editor is Hanna Rosin. Music by Lynx DeMuth and John Ellis. Cover Story’s Theme music by Santigold. Sound design and engineering by Mike Cruz and technical production by Sharif Youssef. Fact-checking by Britina Cheng and Ted Hart. Special thanks to legal minds Elissa Cohen and Samantha Mason. And also to Isabel Dahn, Rachel Monroe, and Genevieve Smith. Power Trip is also produced with Psymposia, a non-profit watchdog group. For a deeper dive into some of these issues visit psymposia.com/powertrip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a quick note, this series deals with sexual assault.
0:03.7	So please keep that in mind when you decide when and where to listen.
0:08.4	Here's where we left off.
0:10.2	Lily, I know you left the psychedelic world and I would love for you to talk about the
0:15.4	moment where it went from being something safe and something growthful and beautiful to something
0:24.0	treacherous and bad.
0:27.2	Oh boy, that she was dark like there's so much.
0:37.0	The turning point was actually when I had been deeply hurt and the response I got was
0:47.5	if I told the story of what had happened to me, if I kept beating this drum,
0:52.3	but I was going to single-handedly destroy the psychedelic Renaissance.
1:03.7	From New York Magazine, this is Cover Story. I'm IO Till It Right.
1:15.9	On the off chance that you've never heard of Burning Man,
1:18.5	picture 50,000 people in thongs and goggles and furry leg warmers on Technicolor Mad Max bicycles,
1:26.7	dancing and tripping in the middle of the Nevada desert.
1:30.8	All vehicles there have to be approved by the DMV, the Department of Mutant Vehicles.
1:36.9	I am not kidding. 100 foot sculptures of sharks and fantasy creatures roll through a temporary
1:43.1	city erected and deconstructed every year in celebration of radical self-expression.
1:49.5	Naturally, it's been a magnet for psychonauts of all kinds and a beacon of outsider culture.
1:56.4	But just over a decade ago, tech people started flocking.
2:01.5	They were interested in mind optimization, starting to microdose.
2:06.2	They wanted shamans to come to their mansions to guide private journeys.
2:10.4	That was all part of how the modern psychedelic Renaissance started,
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