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Mind of Micah

Read, Pt. 3: How One Man Tried to Build a DMT-Based Cult on Reddit and Lost Everything

Mind of Micah

MWBK Creative

Comedy

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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. micahwiener.com

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to mind of Micah.

0:09.3

Today on the program it is part three, the return of Micah's Read of the Week, about

0:15.5

how one man tried to build a DMT-based cult on Reddit and lost everything of course it

0:20.6

comes to us by vice.

0:23.4

In his mid-1950s a depressed Yale-trained scientist took a potent psychedelic saw god and

0:29.4

stepped out to spread the word within two years of course, he was dead.

0:38.4

Hope everybody is doing great.

0:40.2

We will continue from the piece and it's not a psychedelic but you might see god if you

0:46.3

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1:12.1

So where we'd last finished, we were learning about cantelmo.

1:23.0

The last thing that said, whether you went to Yale or barely finished high school if

1:27.2

you get caught up in drugs, the end result is typically the same, right?

1:31.5

You lose your family, your brain and eventually your life, that from cantelmo's brother.

1:43.2

Using this main account, cantelmo spent $70,000 on awards, this is on Reddit I should

1:50.1

mention.

1:52.0

The Craig Suggestity probably spent twice as much in total.

1:56.7

He targeted users in youth oriented subreds and encouraged them to make and spread memes

2:04.4

praising the benefits of DMT, imagine spending $150,000 to get people to make memes.

2:11.0

Cantelmo had been serious about funding studies into DMT.

2:15.0

As he told Hall on the podcast, he approached professors at Yale and Johns Hopkins in the

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