The speaker highlights the journey of an internet marketer, how they start by selling supplements and eventually move towards other interests such as meditation, stoicism, and micro dosing and even mindfulness and detoxification, and how the journey can bring one to unexpected places.
In this episode, Tim Ferris speaks with Roland Griffiths, PhD and Paul Austin about the power of psychedelics in treating psychiatric illness and how it can help in personal growth and development.
Psychedelic experiences can reinforce ideas we already know, but only exist on the surface level of our consciousness. The ability to set these ideas deep in our subconscious can lead to transformative moments that allow us to truly believe in them.
The effect of psychedelics on the mind is dependent on many factors including the social context, community, and leadership position rather than the substance itself. Psychedelics can have both positive and negative outcomes on the psyche and the degree of overfitting is dependent on an individual’s personality and their exploratory approach to the trip.
The use of psychedelics can lead to an increase in entropy in the brain which can result in breaking people out of rigid patterns of thought and behavior, leading to positive personality changes and increased empathy according to some scientists.
The history of psychedelic research has been problematic in many ways and Timothy Leary has been blamed for many of the problems that emerged in relation to psychedelic drug use. However, the history of psychedelics was also profoundly elitist and it's important that there are people carefully monitoring what's happening in this important time in history.