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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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It's All a Cosmic Dance

Gordon Wassen is largely credited with the rediscovery of psilocybin containing mushrooms, which kind of gave rise to the pop psychedelic revolution of the 1960s. He says that on mushrooms, he was spying the archetypes. And so, a well-read individual from the mid-20th century has his premier psychedelic experience, and it's difficult to escape from whether you're Terence McKenna or Gordon Wassen caught in between.

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