What podcasts say about psychedelics
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What experts have said about psychedelics
23 statements · 10 positive · 9 negative · 2 mixed · 2 neutral
Shawn Ryan believes psychedelics expose users to a spiritually inaccessible realm.
“there are, you are opening yourself up to a realm that we were never supposed to have access to spiritually.”
Open the episode · Shawn Ryan: There's A Battle For Your Soul, It's Happening Right NowListen at 1:00:23
Shawn Ryan says psychedelic experiences are not uniformly beneficial.
“It's not all good.”
Open the episode · Shawn Ryan: There's A Battle For Your Soul, It's Happening Right NowListen at 1:07:38
Shawn Ryan says psychedelics appeared to trigger his subsequent experiences.
“That seemed to be the trigger point.”
Open the episode · Shawn Ryan: There's A Battle For Your Soul, It's Happening Right NowListen at 1:07:49
High-dose psychedelics commonly produce temporary loss of self-sense.
“a very common, uh, phenomenon on, on high-dose psychedelics is a sense of losing a sense of self.”
Open the episode · What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael PollanListen at 1:01:13
Psychedelics will become significant for mental health.
“I became a big believer that that would be significant for mental health”
Open the episode · #884: How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many MoreListen at 5:19
Psychedelic drugs should separate therapeutic benefits from hallucinogenic experiences.
“I Think you should be able to separate them?”
Open the episode · #2537 - David SinclairListen at 1:38:16
Psychedelics rapidly open spiritual cognition but pose dangers.
“I think psychedelics is the quick way to open up that spiritual part of your brain. But it's a dangerous way.”
Open the episode · #2533 - Diana PasulkaListen at 2:21:29
People should generally avoid psychedelics unless culturally embedded in a religious practice using them.
“And so I think that it's best just not to. Unless you're, like, born into that culture that does that and that's part of your religion.”
Open the episode · #2533 - Diana PasulkaListen at 2:23:58
Psychedelics initially convinced Harris that introspective investigation was worthwhile.
“psychedelics were indispensable in the beginning in proving to me that a first person interrogation of the mind was worth doing”
Open the episode · Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam HarrisListen at 30:20
People should not use psychedelics without clinical support.
“I don't want anyone to run out and take these things without clinical support.”
Open the episode · #876: Dr. Andrew Huberman — Peptides, Performance, and ProtocolsListen at 35:36
Psychedelics should not be used recreationally by people like Huberman.
“These are not to be used recreationally in my opinion, at least not for folks like me.”
Open the episode · #876: Dr. Andrew Huberman — Peptides, Performance, and ProtocolsListen at 44:48
Psychedelic drugs do not clearly bring users closer to objective reality.
“it's not clear to me that that gets me closer to any reality at all.”
Open the episode · Neil deGrasse Tyson On Aliens, Simulation Theory, and What Happens Inside A Black HoleListen at 1:15:02
Psychedelics are the fastest known method for changing human behavior.
“This is the fastest way, I think. And I've studied every possible way to change human behavior that probably has ever been researched. And this is, bar none, the fastest.”
Open the episode · #2515 - Chase HughesListen at 55:42
Greater adoption of psychedelics will advance humanity.
“if we move forward with psychedelics, our species is going to move forward.”
Open the episode · #2515 - Chase HughesListen at 59:19
Psychedelic use contributed substantially to cultural changes between 1950 and 1960.
“a large part of that is psychedelics.”
Open the episode · #2515 - Chase HughesListen at 1:00:19
Psychedelics can achieve many memory-processing effects without guided hypnotic recall.
“nowadays I think that psychedelics can achieve a lot of that without having to go through some, like, I need you to go back to the original event”
Open the episode · #2515 - Chase HughesListen at 1:26:04
Psychedelics produce an overall decrease in brain activity.
“what they found is the opposite, right? There's kind of a, an overall decrease in the level of activity in the brain with psychedelics.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Dr. Nolan WilliamsListen at 22:01
Psychedelics increase global brain connectivity.
“the connectivity kind of global connectivity kind of increases.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Dr. Nolan WilliamsListen at 22:32
Psychedelics such as ibogaine should not be used recreationally.
“these drugs can't be recreational drugs. They really shouldn't be recreational drugs.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Psychedelics & Neurostimulation for Brain Rewiring | Dr. Nolan WilliamsListen at 29:14
Psychedelics reopen a two-to-three-week window for learning or behavioral change.
“the two or three weeks after a psychedelic, which in this case would include mdma, although that's a longer conversation. You have the ability”
Open the episode · Rabbit Hole: Who Will Survive The AI Era? (cats, mostly) - #1105Listen at 1:44:05
Psychedelic drugs caused the radical musical transformation from the 1950s to 1960s.
“And it's drugs, it's psychedelic drugs.”
Open the episode · #2499 - Marcus KingListen at 1:01:01
Psychedelics are powerful therapeutic tools when professionally administered and guided.
“These are used in professional hands and with the right kind of guidance or extremely powerful tools”
Open the episode · Essentials: Therapy, Treating Trauma & Other Life Challenges | Dr. Paul ContiListen at 24:50
Psychedelic misuse can produce serious negative consequences.
“misused, like very bad things can happen”
Open the episode · Essentials: Therapy, Treating Trauma & Other Life Challenges | Dr. Paul ContiListen at 27:42
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