Ep 6: What is Consciousness & Does LSD Help us Better Understand it?

Where My Moms At? w/ Christina P.

Christina Pazsitzky

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Comedy, Relationships, Parenting

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

What is consciousness and can we access parts of our minds that we normally can't with the use of psychedelics? This episode we discuss the 1960's Harvard Psychologists Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and their use of LSD to explore the mind. What is thought in the first place? Can we even know how we know? If I drop too much acid will I go insane and be convinced I'm an orange? My guest has done LSD about 50 times and can provide us some insight into the psychedelic world. She prefers to remain nameless and thus gainfully employed.

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0:00.0	Welcome to that deep bro serious questions with silly people. I'm Christina
0:06.2	Paginski. I'm a stand up comedian and I have a degree in philosophy and I've
0:13.2	been doing stand up for the last 12 years. So I figured why not combine to
0:16.9	totally useless passions of mine into one podcast. Today's topic is LSD and LSD.
0:27.4	Oh my god. Why do I ask I could never do acid as an adult but in my youth I
0:32.2	did it and I've been really obsessed with the 60s lately. Like everything
0:38.0	having to do with cults like the Manson clan and I watch this documentary on
0:44.9	Netflix called The Source Family. We're like a woman gives birth to a baby in
0:50.2	front of all these dirty hippies and then somebody like wipes her vagina for
0:55.5	her and it's just it's craziness but I'm really really intrigued with the
1:01.2	60s in American culture. Specifically because it was a really cookies
1:06.0	use time especially for such a complacent society like ours. I mean you know
1:10.6	look we like our creature comfort so you know tuning in turning on and dropping
1:16.3	out. It's just so crazy that that happened here and I I really like them that
1:21.5	idea and I really like the 60s psychologists from Harvard Timothy Larry and
1:27.9	Richard Alpert. These are two guys who dropped a bunch of acid together gave a
1:32.5	bunch of acid to their students and did a bunch of studies on on acid and
1:37.2	whether or not it really can heal people if it had therapeutic elements to it
1:44.0	and you know on who knows and look I don't know if acid healed my mind it
1:51.9	definitely changed me and my guest today is a good friend of mine who prefers
1:57.3	to remain nameless for obvious reasons okay I mean look she's an adult she's
2:02.0	got to make a living we all do we who wants your future employer hearing that
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