The Pitfalls of the Psychedelic Movement & Where to Place Our Hope with Jamie Wheal - 42
"Dear Humanity," a Lovecast with Laura Dawn
Psychedelics and Deficit Disorder
The second Harry Potter movie, the second Star Wars, the second Matrix aren't nearly as cool because they weren't world building movies. Initial exposure to psychedelics are world building events, but fourth, fifth, tenth, a hundredth times or no longer. We could also say that we have a mystical experience deficit disorder, so we get this asymmetric boost by having that atrophy muscle or diminished nutrient and it's like, Oh, oh my God, you know, once again, I am alive in a resacralized landscape," he says.
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