Psychedelics and the Self: Exploring Human Consciousness

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

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4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Mexie returns to Rev Left, this time to have a wide-ranging discussion on Psychedelics, their history, the science behind them, and their interactions with human consciousness!

Mexie's podcast, Vegan Vanguard, HERE

Find Mexie's YT channel HERE

Check out Michael Pollan's book HERE

Outro music 'Forgotten Eyes' by Big Thief

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:09.9	So for today's episode we are going to talk to Maxi about psychedelics, about the psychedelic
0:15.6	experience, about the ego, about meditation, about how capitalism and imperialism and colonialism
0:23.8	are often rooted in and outgrowth of a certain western idea of how to experience the
0:29.0	world.
0:30.0	We cover so much fascinating topics including the science and neuroscience of psychedelics
0:35.6	specifically.
0:36.6	I could never possibly sum up the entire conversation.
0:39.4	It's always an honor and a pleasure to talk and collab with Maxi so we really hope listeners
0:44.1	on both of our shows enjoy this conversation and find some value in it.
0:48.7	So without further ado let's get into this wonderful conversation with Maxi on the entire
0:53.7	science and history and implications and philosophy of psychedelics.
1:00.7	Enjoy.
1:04.7	Hi I am Maxi.
1:06.8	I am a YouTuber and I have a podcast called The Vegan Vanguard.
1:13.0	I am a geographer by training.
1:15.7	I have a PhD in Geography and I study the interconnections between the economy and ecology
1:23.4	basically I look at political economy and environmental issues as well as social issues
1:29.4	and I bring that onto my channel which is Maxi so check it out.
1:35.5	Yeah basically just talking about the contradictions of capitalism and how it relates to our ecology.
1:41.2	Yeah well wonderful.
1:42.8	Happy to have you back.
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