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299. Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Are Psychedelics Real?

"It's possible that one of the sources of creativity might be the capacity of the human imagination to generate fictional personalities," he says. "My brother would take high doses of mushrooms by himself and in total darkness... He would have these dialogues, these conversations with these entities." The question is not whether they're real but if they can teach us something we could not otherwise know,. But it still doesn't really know.

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