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Plants of the Gods: S4E3. Part 2 — Brian C. Muraresku: The Eleusinian Mysteries, Discovering the Divine, The Immortality Key, The Pagan Continuity Hypothesis and the Hallucinogenic Origins of Religion

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast

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The Importance of Psychedelics

I worry a bit that in some cases are being loved to death and sold literally as the cure all for everything, the panacea for all of the world's ills. The infrequent occasional use of some of these compounds with people who know what the hell they're doing could be an aid to a spiritual discipline. And so I just think we have to remember that this medicalization that has captured the imagination over the past 20 years is just one very small aspect of what these things represent,. How archaic they really are, stoned apes or not.

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