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The Skeptics Guide #877 - Apr 30 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Constant Is the Human Brain

He described his first extraordinary experience, which was under the effect of magic mushrooms. He saw fairies, small entities, and they seemed to appear as toty beings in the wood graine pattern on a chest of drawers. There seemed to be some sort of intelligence or agency behind this. T of the experiences were hallucinated. Was literally admittedly hallucinatinghe just sat heiis an agenic substance. That's a way to do science, sure. And, buti kind of went beyond it. It would be one thing if he said a cause. This experience happened before he got into his academic pursuits,. The constant here is the human the human brain, throughout time, all

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