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299. Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Amazon Jungle - The Immortality Key

In ancient Greece, they seemed to have stumbled across something that was perhaps LSD based or essentially LSD based whereas in the Amazon jungle, they came across both DMT and the chemical that inhibited its breakdown. It's very interesting to see that that is likely the case in both those disparate cultures. These folks were curious. They didn't keep notes. They Didn't write lab reports. What knowledge they have, they transmitted through the culture, through oral traditions. As this knowledge became more widely disseminated, other groups began to also take the core knowledge, but then expand on it because they had species in their biomes that maybe not were originally around. That's the way I think folk knowledge works

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