Acid Test: How psychedelics shaped the modern world
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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🗓️ 2 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved |
| 0:05.5 | photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course. |
| 0:11.8 | Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college? |
| 0:13.0 | I loved going to college. |
| 0:14.0 | It's good you can retrain and do something. |
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| 1:15.0 | and seeing grubby market stores in Camden advertising a smorgasbord of substances |
| 1:20.0 | that promised to alter the body and mind. |
| 1:23.0 | More recently, psychedelic seemed to have gone mainstream. |
| 1:26.0 | From Prince Harry saying Iowasca helped him to deal with Diana's death |
| 1:30.0 | to university spending billions on researching hallucinogenics. |
| 1:35.0 | Drugs have done a lot of harm, but they clearly shape the modern world for better or worse. |
| 1:40.4 | In his lively new book Psychonauts, Mike Jay traces some of these ups and downs through the West's most influential thinkers, |
| 1:47.5 | from psychologists like Zigmund Freud and William James, |
| 1:50.5 | to the work of Arthur Conan Doyle and Aldous Huxley. |
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