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Psychedelics Today

Cognitive Liberty, The War on Drugs, & Personal Freedom

Psychedelics Today

Psychedelics Today, LLC

Life Sciences, Science, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Download It is the week of the 4th of July. That means the United States is celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, breaking free from the British Empire, and becoming an independent nation.  With the holiday underway, it seems like a great time to reflect on the concept of freedom (including cognitive liberty) and what it means to each and every one of us. In honor of Independence Day and the Declaration of Independence, here is a quote by Terence McKenna: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="660"]Terrence McKenna - Cognitive Liberty Photo from: http://www.cannalawblog.com/they-said-it-on-marijuana-quotable-saturday-part-cxxvi/[/caption] In this episode, Joe and Kyle reflect on the concept of personal freedom, cognitive liberty, and the impact that the War on Drugs has on the American people. It seems to be the consensus that the War on Drugs is failing. The policy has huge negative consequences on people across the globe, and significantly marginalizes minority groups and people of color.

Cognitive Liberty

As psychedelic research continues to progress in the academic and scientific realm, many people are still subjected to arrest and imprisonment because of this failed policy. Kyle and Joe share their thoughts about the pursuit for cognitive liberty and personal freedom.
The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
Do you think that exploring one's own consciousness, whether through plants or other drugs, be illegal? Why should a person have to "ask permission" to have an experience with their own body, mind, and spirit? Let us know your thoughts about this topic.
Joe and Kyle also talk about their new upcoming course, Navigating Psychedelics: Lessons on Self-Care & Integration. Be sure to check out this course and sign up TODAY! We are giving away a SPECIAL offer just for the 4th of July! Receive 10% off our Earl-Bird special with the coupon code "freedom" when you check out. You do not want to miss this offer!  

Show Links

Geoffery Schwartz presents: Cognitive Liberty and Entheogenic Freedom for ERIE [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fobjqBbSiQ]

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good to roll.

0:03.4

Yeah.

0:08.4

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to psychedelics today for the 2017 July 4 edition.

0:15.6

Probably going to launch it today on July 3, but it's all the tense purpose is July 4.

0:20.2

Really hope you enjoy it.

0:21.9

Today on the show, it's just Kyle and I.

0:23.8

And we wanted to get into a couple things related to Cognitive Liberty and a class we're

0:28.7

launching, probably a few other things going on as well.

0:32.0

But yeah, first and foremost, we do have a class that will be on sale for 10% off for as soon as we launched

0:41.6

this through July 4 tomorrow and definitely take advantage of that. And the class is called

0:50.0

Navigating Psychedelics. What's the subtitle, Kyle? Lessons on self-care and integration.

0:56.2

Yeah. So it's going to have a whole bunch of lecture from us and some kind of interactive

1:02.4

online components, a private Facebook group. And we're going to have 10 experts with kind of

1:10.4

master classes on their specific subject area.

1:13.8

Could be ayahuasca or integration or, you know, how to party safer, stuff like that.

1:19.7

So kind of a well-rounded approach to psychedelics.

1:22.3

So it's not just, you know, what does it look like to be safe going to Peru?

1:26.5

It's more than that because psychedelics are more pervasive than just out in Peru.

1:31.6

Kyle, anything you want to add about the class?

1:38.1

No, I think you covered it.

1:40.1

Yeah, we'll go over some harm reduction and then hopefully, I mean,

1:43.1

I think the whole point of the class is to maximize safety and reduce any risks. I mean, you know, people are consuming psychedelic material. It's getting out in the mainstream. And, you know, we just want to be that outlet for some sort of harm reduction and safety and education, you know, it's not really to promote

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