
Michael Pollan on The Power of Plants
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
What Is the Meaning of Psychedelics?
We construct this experience. I've always wondered what would happen if psychedelics hadn't first been written about by aldous huxley, who who puts a very eastern spin on it. The same drug at different times in history can be regarded as encouraging passivity or violence. But people, you know, forget that everything you experience on a psychadelic is not in the molecule. It really is a catalist for a process in your own mind that draws on everything in your memory. And this is one of the reasons i'm so interested in drugs. They're one of those interesting rubs between nature and culture,. Between our biology and everything we are because of the culture we
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