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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Evidence for Psychedelics and Classical Antiquity?

The book is essentially my search for that data and the eventual uncovering of two, what I think are key pieces of data. One data point shows the ritual use of a psychedelic beer in classical antiquity and Iberia,. And the other shows what looks like a kind of psychedelic wine just outside Pompeii from the first century AD at the right time when the earliest Christians were showing up in Italy.

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