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Psychedelic Use at UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz students are known to take more drugs of all kinds, including psychedelics, compared to students at other universities. Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, is known to have had a life-changing psychedelic experience during a treatment session.
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The guest speaker discusses how psychedelic experiences can lead to behavior changes in people in the service industry and how UC Santa Cruz students take more drugs than people at Yale.
50:00 - 52:18 (02:18)
Summary
The guest speaker discusses how psychedelic experiences can lead to behavior changes in people in the service industry and how UC Santa Cruz students take more drugs than people at Yale.
ChapterPsychedelic Use at UC Santa Cruz
EpisodeEp 66: The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide - Risks, Micro-Dosing, Ibogaine, and More
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker discusses unconventional learning experiences in Santa Cruz, where students developed their own courses, leading to life-changing realizations about religion and a deeper universal.
52:19 - 54:33 (02:14)
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The speaker discusses unconventional learning experiences in Santa Cruz, where students developed their own courses, leading to life-changing realizations about religion and a deeper universal. The speaker also notes the potential increased seriousness among Yale students due to the difficulty of their coursework and potential guidance.
ChapterPsychedelic Use at UC Santa Cruz
EpisodeEp 66: The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide - Risks, Micro-Dosing, Ibogaine, and More
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The co-founder of AA, Bill Wilson, was a proponent of using psychedelics in the treatment of alcoholism in the 1930s due to the lack of effective treatment methods available at the time.
54:33 - 56:12 (01:38)
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The co-founder of AA, Bill Wilson, was a proponent of using psychedelics in the treatment of alcoholism in the 1930s due to the lack of effective treatment methods available at the time. This is not widely known, but is described in Don Lattin's book.
ChapterPsychedelic Use at UC Santa Cruz
EpisodeEp 66: The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide - Risks, Micro-Dosing, Ibogaine, and More
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The directors of AA were against LSD therapy, but Bill Wilson continued his advocacy for the use of psychedelics to treat addiction.
56:12 - 57:18 (01:05)
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The directors of AA were against LSD therapy, but Bill Wilson continued his advocacy for the use of psychedelics to treat addiction. Founder of the Global Psychedelic Dinners, Bett Williams, discusses the history and future of psychedelic therapy.
ChapterPsychedelic Use at UC Santa Cruz
EpisodeEp 66: The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide - Risks, Micro-Dosing, Ibogaine, and More
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The people who take psychedelics repeatedly are not getting the message as such substances are meant to help them be present.
57:18 - 58:11 (00:53)
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The people who take psychedelics repeatedly are not getting the message as such substances are meant to help them be present. Those who try to escape reality need to understand that they are not alone, and they are designed to be here.