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299. Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Psychedelics and Reality Hallucination

I know this is a complicated question but I read Rick Strassman's book, The Spirit Molecule, After Meeting You. Dr. Strassman was quite shocked to put it mildly by what his research subjects were reporting as a consequence of being administered DMT. They would report being shot out of their body and then going to other places and encountering what were essentially alien beings of one form or another. This is the thing that doesn't fit for me. In the shamanic rituals that are associated with ayahuasca, people often report encounters with entities. And so, sorry for the tremendously long buildup to that question, but it's a complicated question.

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