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back from the borderline

everything we now call "drugs" used to be how humans touched god

back from the borderline

mollie adler

Childhood Trauma, Culture, Self-improvement, Jungian Psychology, Complex Trauma, Spirituality Podcast, Mental Health Podcast, Cptsd Recovery, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Generational Trauma, Philosophy, Education, Depth Psychology, Trauma Healing

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Your ancestors knew something about consciousness that we've systematically forgotten, and there are powerful reasons why this knowledge was buried.


I'm going to share research that will fundamentally change how you understand the relationship between spirituality, consciousness, and the substances our culture has demonized. Serious academic scholarship that reveals how plant medicines were woven into the very foundation of human civilization, including Christianity itself.

We’ll discuss why John Marco Allegro, a respected Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, was academically destroyed for revealing that early Christianity was built around encoded mushroom sacraments. I'll walk you through the linguistic evidence that "Jesus" and the crucifixion story were actually instruction manuals for psychedelic experiences that facilitated direct communion with the divine.


Every advanced civilization had sophisticated consciousness technologies using plant allies. The Celtic druids, Greek mystery schools, Norse völva, Vedic soma traditions, and so many more. Your bloodline – wherever you come from – remembers what it means to work with these sacred substances.


We'll explore why the same molecules that are criminalized on the street become "breakthrough medicine" when administered in $400 clinics. Why depression and anxiety might be symptoms of spiritual crisis rather than brain chemistry problems, and why the pharmaceutical industry is desperately trying to co-opt plant medicines while stripping away their sacred context.


This is a nuanced conversation. I am not encouraging “drug use,” but discernment. I'm sharing forbidden knowledge about consciousness technologies that shaped human development for millennia before being systematically suppressed by institutions that profit from your disconnection and lack of awareness around these subjects.

If you're ready to understand why an awakened populace with direct access to mystical experience threatens every power structure that depends on your spiritual dependency, this conversation will blow your mind.


Prepare to unlearn everything you thought you knew about drugs, consciousness, and what it means to touch the divine.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Long-term listeners of this podcast know that I've spent the last five years talking about the dark.

0:06.5

Now I've built a flashlight, and it's called Moods.

0:10.4

It's an instrument for serious, private inner work designed to dismantle your excuses and never

0:15.7

inflate your ego or assume the role of a sycophantic companion.

0:19.6

And the wait list is finally live.

0:21.7

Access is granted in the exact order you sign up.

0:24.9

Lock in your spot now at moods.

0:26.9

World.

0:28.7

Welcome to the new era of inner work.

0:36.2

You're listening to the Consciousness stream, my Patreon exclusive podcast within a podcast, where I share unfiltered thoughts, deep dives, and intuitive explorations.

0:49.1

What you're about to hear is a preview of a full episode available for my premium members.

1:03.8

If you grew up in the 80s or 90s like I did,

1:10.0

it is likely that you probably remember the whole just say no to drugs campaign,

1:14.7

and if you weren't already aware, that was a Nancy Reagan thing.

1:22.3

And you also probably remember the dare programs in school, right? Dare to keep kids off drugs.

1:28.8

Or that commercial where they said, this is your brain on drugs, right? And they're like scrambling up the eggs in the fucking pan. We were all raised in the aftermath of Richard Nixon's war on drugs,

1:36.5

and we were told that any consciousness-altering substances and associated experiences with those was somehow an inherently dangerous thing,

1:48.5

that you are going to become more morally corrupt because of your engagement with these

1:55.9

substances, and that essentially it was just like this one-way ticket to destroying your life.

2:03.0

And I really understand why some of these messages resonated,

2:08.0

and many of you out there, myself included, have witnessed the devastation of addiction firsthand,

2:16.7

whether that be drugs or substances or gambling or anything,

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