The Psychedelic Stylings of Dr. Matthew Johnson

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

🍄🍄🍄 Ever wonder about the real medicinal uses of psychedelics? Wanna hear tales from the guy who did time training in the bad trip tent at Burning Man? Paul and Stephen do, so they go to the tip of the spear - straight to Johns Hopkins’ foremost psychedelics expert, Dr. Matthew Johnson. In this mind-expanding chat, hear about Dr. Johnson’s trailblazing work to help advance the therapeutic use of psychedelics to treat depression, addiction, cancer, trauma, and PTSD. Find out how psychedelics act as lubricants to the brain to change unwanted behavior, and finally learn the difference between a heroic dose, a moderate dose, and a micro-dose! Also - what’s the deal with sensory deprivation tanks, and why do the CIA, Cary Grant, and Nazis come up? Can Paul actually sign up to be a test-subject? Settle in and relax as Paul and Stephen hold your hand on this trip through the very important and fascinating study of psychedelics! BONUS: The stoned ape theory explained! (You know you want to know!) Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D., is The Susan Hill Ward Endowed Professor of Psychedelics and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins. Working with psychedelics since 2004, he is one of the world’s most widely published experts on psychedelics. In 2021 he received the first grant in 50 years from the US government for a treatment study with a classic psychedelic, specifically psilocybin in treatment of tobacco addiction. 🍄🍄🍄 ========= Vocab Word of the Week: HYPNAGOGIC ========= 🎥 CATCH A LIVE RECORDING OF CHINWAG 🎥 October 14th at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA October 17th at the Murmrr Theatre in Brooklyn, NY 🎟️ Buy Tickets before they sell out! 🎟️ ========= New episodes of CHINWAG drop Wednesdays for free... n(🧊) Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 YT: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody it's Paul Giamotti speaking. Stephen Asmes I live and breathe. How are you sir?
0:10.8	I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?
0:15.1	Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.
0:18.4	Yeah, you're a listener. Yeah. I love this show every week they go back in time to understand the present
0:24.4	because you can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been,
0:28.3	right? Very true. And on every episode of NPR's throughline,
0:31.4	the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:35.0	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.6	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.7	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.7	There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process because he deemed
0:48.0	old age to be a disease that he could cure.
0:50.7	So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:53.0	Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:56.0	it traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:58.5	It's remarkable discussion.
1:00.1	So very cool stuff.
1:01.6	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.7	you'll love the throughline podcast from NPR. On NPR's throughline, the past is brought back to life
1:10.8	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shaped the world we live in
1:15.1	now.
1:16.1	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct Steve?
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