Routine Checkup: Weird Science - Psychedelics, Trepenation and Mysticism with Science Journalist John Horgan

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CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week the fellas are joined by prolific science journalist John Horgan (not the BC Premier) to talk about the interactions between science and mysticism. Altered states of consciousness, psychedelics, the science of drilling holes into peoples heads for enlightenment. We get weird and it's incredible.

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0:00.0	All right, I got a big question. How do you feel about aging? Maybe you've got a fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of change.
0:06.8	Because certainly how we look starts to change. The actor Amanda Pete has given it a lot of thought over the years. She's been in the public eyes since the 90s.
0:14.5	She'll tell you why her new film, Fantasy Life has her thinking about validation, about vanity, and what she thinks about cosmetic surgery and whether
0:22.0	or not to get it.
0:23.4	You'll hear that conversation now.
0:25.0	Just search for Q with Tom Power, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.1	This is a CBC podcast.
0:37.0	And we're sitting up here.
0:38.3	We go to please get all in our eyes.
0:42.3	We go to things get all in order it is.
0:45.3	We go to things get all in love it is down.
0:49.3	We want to please there.
0:51.3	And we're not yet.
0:53.3	We go to please down. All in a lot Oregon. Yeah. We're going to place them all in our hands.
0:57.5	We're going to place them.
0:59.5	Oh, yeah.
1:00.0	Very excited for today's conversation with John Oregon.
1:05.5	Did I pronounce that right, John?
1:07.1	Sure.
1:07.6	Yeah.
1:08.3	Perfect.
1:09.0	Sure.
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