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Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

How Psychedelics Work

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

Leo Gura

Health, Self-help

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Making sense of the psychedelic experience.

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0:00.0

PsychDellics don't work on stupid people.

0:04.0

A quote by Terence McKenna.

0:10.0

How do Psychodellics work?

0:12.0

That's what we'll be answering in this episode

0:15.3

I've really intended this episode to be for those people who have tried a psychedelic once or twice

0:21.8

experienced something crazy, had no idea what happened, it blindsided

0:27.4

you and maybe now you're scared of trying it again or maybe now you're researching to find

0:31.9

out like what happened to me how do I

0:33.8

explain what happened so if you care about explaining what happened

0:38.3

uh... then this is the episode for you i'm gonna explain all of the mechanics and

0:41.9

metaphysics and the epistemology of

0:43.4

psychedelics, which I've been studying for several years now in a lot of depth.

0:49.4

And my background in this really, it started with just existential and

0:54.0

metaphysical contemplation epistemic contemplation which I've been doing

0:57.8

for decades basically since my teens without ever doing any

1:02.4

psychodellics.

1:03.7

And then about three or four years ago,

1:05.4

I got into psychodellics and sort of experimenting with them.

1:08.6

And because I was already into non-duality and spirituality

1:11.6

and philosophy and science and studying the foundations of science like it

1:17.2

it really got me interested in how do I square what I'm experiencing in my psychedelic trips with mainstream science and our ordinary

1:28.8

understanding of reality because it's so odd and so weird and so jarring some of the stuff that you can experience

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