Turn on, tune in: One of Lynne Malcolm's favourite programs
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Turn on, tune in and drop out … that was the catch cry of U.S. psychologist Timothy Leary in the 1960s. By 1966 psychedelics were demonised and banned, but now—in controlled scientific settings—there's a psychedelic 'renaissance' in mental health therapy. Early research on the use of ecstasy in the treatment of stress disorders looks promising.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | Hi, it's All In The Mind on RN Summer. |
| 0:12.6 | Lynn Malcolm here with another highlight episode celebrating my past years as host of All in the Mind. |
| 0:19.4 | In this program from 2018, we take a trip into the world of psychedelia. |
| 0:25.6 | We're at a psychedelic symposium in Victoria. |
| 0:28.6 | Do you take psychedelic drugs? |
| 0:30.6 | Yes, I use psychedelic drugs, psilocybin mushrooms, and I have also tried ayahuasca and, yeah, a couple of other natural |
| 0:42.2 | s. During the experiences, you notice a real openness of the body and mind, perception of |
| 0:50.1 | outer reality is heightened and the inner landscape as well. |
| 0:53.4 | Then I can sort of tell that there have been lasting effects. |
| 0:57.9 | Well, I've experimented a lot, but looking back, it was sort of irresponsible experimentation |
| 1:04.0 | because I recognised that they were having detrimental effects. |
| 1:06.6 | I experimented with psychedelics when I was younger, perhaps a bit too much, because I didn't |
| 1:10.7 | know very much about them. |
| 1:12.0 | So like a few bad trips and then I didn't really touch them for a while. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, off to a bad start but I feel like we reconciled. |
| 1:19.6 | I can talk about my best experience. |
| 1:21.9 | That was at Rainbow Serpent in 2012. |
| 1:24.5 | Just being out all night wandering around, the sun comes up and just as the the sun was coming up, I stopped it, went into the campsite, |
| 1:30.3 | and at that moment realized that I'd stopped grieving for my mum, |
| 1:33.3 | who'd died when I was a kid, |
| 1:35.3 | and then had all these affirmations that were set and haven't changed. |
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