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Beyond The Frontier Of Psychedelic Science w/ Matthew Johnson Ph.D. #374

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The Two Models of Addictions

i haven't been particularly prone to classic addictions, though. I thinkt you know, there's two models that really i appreciate. One is an attempt to solve the feeling of emptiness that we feel from not being engaged with life. The other is choosing things that bring what he calls pseudo aros, which is a fn feeling of connection life. And then there's this mechanism that like, allows you to feel the contact that we crave as a response to the emptiness we feel. So even if it's not trama based, its like, can we deal with the emptiness and we have the skills and strategies to make contact without exogenous substances, pray, so that we fill the

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