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183. The Immortality Key; Psychedelics and the Ancient Age | Brian Muraresku & Prof. Carl Ruck

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is LSD the Most Potent Pharmacological Substance Ever Discovered?

Elwood had synthesized LSD five years before he was aware of its visionary potential. He put it aside on a shelf in his laboratory and then sensed that the vial said, take me. The claim was made that LSD is the most potent pharmacological substance ever discovered with 100 million molecules or some tiny trivial amount sufficient to induce a mystical state. It's unbelievably potent. And now maybe there's been pharmacological agents discovered. I'm gonna wear them maybe some of these things, but yeah, that's what I understand too. Here's a question, Brian came up with as well: If the ancient Greeks used drugs to find God, so what? Why should anybody care about this today

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