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Plants of the Gods: S4E3. Part 2 — Brian C. Muraresku: The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis and the Hallucinogenic Origins of Religion

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You Can't Reject Something Just Because You Cannot Understand It

Peter Gorman was the second white man that I know of to take the magic frog, the green monkey frog or the Amazon. He saw a crossing in the river with a big juicy taper crossing in his vision. So this is part of the ineffable. You can explain this through the prism of Western science. But in one of your conversations with Carl Ruck, he quotes Carl Jung as saying, you can't reject something just because you can't understand it. And I think that's the attitude we should have towards psychedelics, towards religion in some ways, towards life itself.

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