All of the stories that I've been rehearsing in my head about myself for 40 years are

just stories and are very flexible. In fact, they're almost empty and I could start a new story

and it would almost be just as true as the story I've carried around. That was one thing.

The other thing was that everything that psychedelics sprung on me about the nature of reality

or the glory of nature or my love for my fellow human beings or indeed the sheer downright

fucking strangeness of the world is somehow already there. And psychedelics

recast it in their own theater, but it's accessible without the drugs themselves.

All right, folks, welcome to another episode of the show. Today's show is a doozy. And if you are like I am very immersed in the world of podcasts,

I listen to a lot of them, it won't be new to you, probably, this very important and

emerging conversation that we are having culturally about the role of psychedelics.

These compounds and or plant medicines are now officially,

and I think accurately being labeled as breakthrough therapies,

therapies for treating mental illness, used to heal trauma,

conquer addiction, and enhance well-being.

Now, on this show, there's so many other shows that have gone really, really deep on this topic. And that's one of the reasons that I haven't had a lot of

guests who orient around these new plant medicines on the show because so many other shows go

so deep on the topic. And yet, this is one of the reasons that our guest today, Andy Mitchell,

is on the show. Annie Mitchell is the right person to bring this message to our audience. He's a

clinical neuropsychologist who has a long history of treating patients with all kinds of different

neurological conditions, psychiatric conditions, including brain traumas, dementia, epilepsy, depression, anxiety disorders.

He's done this in a clinical setting in London for basically his professional life.

His presentation of this material in a really interesting way is what I consider a great primer.

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