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#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

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Psychedelics and Ego Dissolution

The mind focuses a lot on what are our core needs and we filter all the incoming information that we get towards focusing on what our core needs. We see in America and around the world a kind of rise of irrationality where people push away their logic in order for their emotional tribal needs to be met. And so psychedelics, by dissolving this ego control or by with MDMA, kind of strengthening our sense of self can bring in other information that have previously been too complicated or too painful.

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