
Luminous: Your Brain on Shrooms
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The Power of Psychedelics
Steve Paulson: Why are psychedelics so powerful? He talks to neuroscientist Robin Carhart Harris, director of the Psychedelics Division at UC San Francisco. She says they're there for profundity in a sense and it's only really with fundamental shifts in perspective that you can have fundamental shifts in behavior. And she explains why an octopus on ecstasy is more social than other animals.
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