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299. Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Psychedelics and Stress

In some sense, what the psychedelics seem to do is mimic the process of revolutionary cognitive adaptation. It looks like the psychedelics affect systems that are naturally affected by high levels of stress. When you're extremely stressed, maybe that's a time to revisit some of your fundamental presumptions because something has gone wrong in your life so that you're fundamentally stressed. The hemispheric specialization element is something that I added to that net set of presuppositions partly because of investigations I've done into hemispheric specialties.

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