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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Huxley and the Future of Psychedelics
Aldous Huxley was looking forward to a revival of religion in the 1950s. In his book, The Religion with No Name, he envisions a religion which gives rise to everyday mysticism. We seem to be able to produce quite easily inside the lab at Hopkins, NYU and elsewhere with psilocybin. I think this is kind of part of Huxley's prediction about a time when we would have legal access, safe access, efficacious access to this material that would allow for insight in an afternoon. And what do you do when millions of people can become mystics in an afternoon?
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