Hey Leo here for actualized.org.

And in this episode I'm going to be talking about correcting the stigma around

psychodelics. Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

A quote by Terence McKenna.

This is going to be a in-depth multi-part series aimed at addressing the issue of this stigma that surrounds the field of

psychedelics and to educate people about this field and it's really quite a

remarkable and amazing field that we've only just begun to explore.

In this episode I'm not going to focus on talking about my own trip reports.

I've talked about that in the past and I will in the future, but not here.

And I'm not going to talk about how to trip or the proper protocol for which psychedelics to do

or all the mystical experiences that psychedelics can lead

towards. That's not what we're interested in here. I just want to lay the foundation

for this field because it's an interesting field and most people don't realize that it's a field and there's this huge gaping

hole in our education system which teaches nothing at all about this

field. It doesn't teach about the historical context, it doesn't teach about the anthropology, it doesn't teach about the botany of it,

it doesn't teach about the chemistry of it, it doesn't teach about the psychology, the

psychiatry, the clinical and medical studies, and a lot of new science that's being done.

This is a really cutting edge field that a lot of people I think underestimate.

And the reason that is is because our culture has this giant stigma around psychedelics.

As soon as you bring up the word, people immediately associated with drugs

and then they dismiss you or they demonize you or they

think you've gone on to the deep end or they think you're a hippie or any one of

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