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299. Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Therapeutic Promise of Psychedelics

A lot of information from the external world through our sensory neural interface never makes it into the brain. And what psychedelics do is they temporarily disable those gating mechanisms. They just throw the gates wide open, you know, and you get flooded with all this information that normally is not accessible. That can be a very useful thing from a therapeutic angle because we can get trapped in our default mode network or reality hallucination. It can be dysfunctional. Then you get things like addiction and PTSD and so on.

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