Read, Pt. 2: How One Man Tried to Build a DMT-Based Cult on Reddit and Lost Everything

Mind of Micah

MWBK Creative

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🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In his mid-50s, a depressed, Yale-trained scientist took a potent psychedelic, saw God, and set out to spread the word. Within two years, he was dead. Check back tomorrow for Part 3.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Mind of Micah.
0:08.2	Today on the podcast is part two of Micah's Read of the Week about how one man tried to
0:13.3	build a DMT-based cult on Reddit and lost everything.
0:21.5	As always, check out earlybirdcbd.com slash Micah and go to Micahwinder.com for all of your
0:28.2	lending needs.
0:29.7	I would love to be your mortgage advisor.
0:34.0	And if you're a real estate agent and you send me a client or introduce me to a friend,
0:39.1	I will send you a signed mousepad.
0:42.8	That's MicahWinder.com.
0:43.8	Alright, part two.
0:45.8	Alex Hall, the then a 28-year-old podcaster, author, and freelance video producer, first noticed
0:51.4	Cantelmo trending on Reddit in 2019 due to his gilding sprees.
0:56.6	It was the cancer-curing claim that stuck with him most.
1:01.5	If you have someone that is so public-facing, he said, that has a long prestigious career
1:06.1	making a well-articulated claim, that carries a different amount of weight to it, all
1:10.0	said.
1:11.8	Cantelmo had been successful, a high school valo Victorian and Yale molecular biophysics
1:17.0	and biochemistry graduate.
1:19.1	He spent 35 years in the pharmaceutical industry.
1:21.8	He worked in the field of high-performance liquid, chromiography, or HPLC.
1:28.3	HPLC involves taking a mixture of chemicals and deciding what's in it for analysis and purification.
1:34.6	According to Cantelmo, he ran three HPLC companies.
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