Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we are speaking with Dr Richard Miller.

Dr Miller is a radio host, former advisor on the President's Commission on Mental Health

and founding board member of the Gestalt Institute.

He has been a clinical psychologist for over 50 years and has been on faculty at the University of

Michigan and at Stanford.

He joins us today to talk about the history and status of psychedelic medicine.

Dr Miller, thank you for your time.

Thank you for having me here.

Well, congratulations on the new book.

I devoured it in sort of one and a half sessions.

Really, really interesting discussions you've put together there.

Thank you.

And as a result, because there are a few kind of pieces of the biography sprinkled through it.

I'm looking forward to question one.

Dr Miller, were you a weird kid?

Ah, ha ha ha ha!

Um, was I a weird kid?

I was an unusual kid.

I think I was a little different I grew up in two places that were remarkably different I grew up in two

places that were remarkably different I grew up in the swamps of Florida what I call this they were the swamps of Florida, what I call the, they were the swamps of Florida, and then I grew

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