Andrew Callaghan and Hamilton Morris Weaponized My Abuser
Excerpt from "Hamilton's Pharma Cope, Part 4."
Intro transcript:
For those of you who are new to our channel, Psymposia is a research non-profit with a mission to educate the public on psychedelic science and harm reduction. We are longtime supporters of full decriminalization and dismantling the War on Drugs.
Between the four of us in this video that we’re about to share, we’ve been working in the field of psychedelic studies for 44 years, collectively. We were drawn to psychedelics for their positive potentials, but our research uncovered patterns of abuse in psychedelic therapy. We called attention to this issue to make the field safer and more resilient.
Andrew Callaghan amplified and endorsed Hamilton Morris’ hate campaign against us in retaliation for drawing attention to these patterns of abuse. Unfortunately, most people first hear about us from their video on Andrew Callaghan’s 5Cast that is filled with false and dangerous claims, which we debunk in a 4-part series titled “Hamilton’s Pharma Cope.” Andrew and Hamilton never contacted us with an opportunity to comment on their claims.
The result is that both Andrew and Hamilton used their fame and their platforms to cover up patterns of abuse in psychedelic therapy. Andrew explicitly incites his audience to “destroy” us at the end of the video, and at least some of his audience heard that as in instruction.
When we contacted Andrew offering to correct the facts, and explained that his video was leading to direct threats of harm against us, he never responded.
We felt it’s especially important to share our story at this moment, since prominent creators on the left have begun promoting Andrew Callaghan's recent videos. This is in spite of Andrew’s clear lack of remorse for his consistent and well-document record of harmful actions. These are detailed in a recent video by The Serfs that we recommend watching.
In a video titled “Andrew Callaghan Isn’t Devastated,” which is the prequel to our full series, we show how Andrew walked back his initial public apology and blamed it on a PR crisis management team. He has not taken accountability, and his victims deserve full solidarity from the left. As Matthew Remski said recently, "You can't change the world in a sustainable way while hiding abuse."
Our story makes clear that Andrew's harm toward SA survivors is ongoing. When leftists promote Andrew's journalism, they are normalizing a hate campaign that it continuing to drive harassment towards us.
If you’re connected to any creators on the left, we’d appreciate it if people with bigger platforms could help draw attention to this.
Transcript
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[00:00] For those of you who are new to our channel, Psymposia is a research nonprofit with a mission to educate the public on psychedelic science and harm reduction. We're longtime supporters of full decriminalization and dismantling the war on drugs. Between the four of us in the video we're about to share, we've been working in the field of psychedelic studies for 44 years collectively. We were drawn to psychedelics for their positive potentials, but our research uncovered patterns of abuse in psychedelic therapy. We called attention to this issue to make the field safer and more resilient. Andrew Callahan amplified and endorsed Hamilton Morris's hate campaign against us in retaliation for drawing attention to these patterns of abuse. Unfortunately, most people first hear about us from their video on Andrew Callahan's five cast that is filled with false and dangerous claims, which we debunk in a four-part series titled Hamilton's Pharmarmacoupe.
[00:51] Andrew and Hamilton never contacted us with an opportunity to comment on their claims. The result is that both Andrew and Hamilton use their fame and their platforms to cover up patterns of abuse in psychedelic therapy. Andrew explicitly incites his audience to destroy us at the end of the video. And at least some of his audience heard that as an instruction. When we first contacted Andrew offering to correct the facts and explain that his video was leading to direct threats of harm against us, he never responded. We felt it's especially important to share our story at this moment since prominent creators on the left have begun promoting Andrew Callahan's recent videos. This is in spite of Andrew's clear lack of remorse for his consistent and well doumented record of harmful actions. These are detailed in a recent video by the surfs that we recommend watching.
[01:37] In a video titled Andrew Callahan isn't devastated, which is the prequel to our full series. We show how Andrew walked back his initial public apology and blamed it on a PR crisis management team. He has not taken accountability and his victims deserve full solidarity from the left. As Matthew Remky said recently, "You can't change the world in a sustainable way while hiding abuse." Our story makes clear that Andrew's harm toward essay survivors is ongoing. When leftists promote Andrew's journalism, they're normalizing a hate campaign that is continuing to drive harassment towards us. If you're connected to any creators on the left, we'd appreciate it if people with bigger platforms could help draw attention to this. The following is an excerpt from the final part of our four-part series on the misinformation being spread by Hamilton Morris on Andrew Callahan's cast.
[02:35] We're releasing this excerpt on its own because we think it's a particularly powerful example of the poor journalism on display by two figures who are largely held in high esteem as ethical journalists by their audiences. So, is it safe to say that Psymposia kind of really destroyed the fight for legal MDMA? Well, so it was a kamicazi mission after they had this disastrous campaign to destroy MDMA. It came out that the lead woman was accused of beating her lover with a broom in a very Tom and Jerry style [laughter] domestic abuse type situation. So she she'd beaten a man with a broom. This is really [expletive] gross behavior.
[03:22] In the more recent publication of this interview, they also blast a Facebook post on screen of where this accusation is coming from. Desay, do you want to speak to where this is coming from? Yeah. Oh, there is a, you know, the way that Hamilton describes the situation, it's like, oh, you know, saying that someone was outed, it implies that there was this you know, some kind of a serious investigation or something or with evidence or like, you know, that went on involving that that what he's referring to. But in actuality, there was a Facebook post from a former partner of mine who is very unwell.
[04:08] So Hamilton had discovered this post. I don't know if he was the first person to discover it, but what was really gross about it was there was a screenshot from someone who was clearly in some kind of crisis that was posted on Facebook and then someone took that and posted it on a psychedelic Reddit page about Nishay and completely out of context. And what I did was I went and found this post on the Facebook page to put it in context of what this person was saying as alongside all of this. And so just going to pull it up here. This is me scrolling through his Facebook page. And you can see these large posts of conspiracy theories of I'm not going to keep these up on screen for too long.
[04:55] People can pause and read if they really want to, but there's a number of things. There's a number of him talking about the artist Grimes. The actual post in question is around the 50 mark. So, I'm just going to scroll up to that so we can kind of read what Hamilton is referring to here. But this is the post that he found and it starts with CIA enemy numero uno and international villain lmao. The values are [expletive] and reversed. Lol. The worst thing I ever did in my life was punch my ex-girlfriend in the face one time amidst years of abuse by women. And Neheto concussion with a broom and hit me multiplicitous times to be frank. So stop looking for help from leaders who don't understand re karma.
[05:42] Re karma alignment with the best possible future for all sensient beings. All beings and forms of life on planet Sophia are sensient and aware in some way. So I just wanted to read that in full context because this is the post that Hamilton is using to claim that Nache was outed for beating someone with a broom. And it was very clear to even people that saw that Reddit post that this individual was in some kind of psychosis. And Russ, you mentioned Grimes. They have a lot of other posts where they clearly kind of believe that they are in a relationship with Grimes. They've also posted about other friends and family doing horrific torture to them in ways that are very recognizable as things that sometimes people say when they're in psychosis.
[06:35] And so, you know, that context could have been an opportunity for a serious journalist to reach out and get more context about it. And if they had reached out to me to get more context about it, I would have been able to explain that that relationship was an extremely abusive relationship to me that involved a tremendous amount of coercive control that is documented and that other people are very aware of. And notably in the first version they had this Tom and Jerry clip spliced in after they discuss it. In the republished version, Andrew has a screenshot of that Facebook post that pops up on screen instead of the Tom and Jerry clip.
[07:24] So, he was perfectly aware of how disturbed the context of this Facebook post was. Yeah. Both Andrew and Hamilton had all the information that reasonable per a reasonable person if they had it would say this is a deeply unwell person. But that's not what Andrew or Hamilton were interested in spending any time with. That's not what they were doing. This is not journalism. This next clip comes with a huge trigger warning as far as abusive language. It is a recording that Nache took after the exartner who Hamilton is using as a source stole money from their bank account. We are including and discussing this specifically to provide an example of the character of the sources that Hamilton is using to make claims about us and to illustrate exactly the kind of evidence we could have provided had Andrew or Hamilton ever reached out to us about any of the claims that they were making.
[08:23] So why did you say I should be scared of you? because you don't understand what I am and how important I am in things and how disposable you are. I'm disposable. Yeah. Because you still won't help. You choose your own selfish desires. You don't understand things. You [expletive] with the wrong person. In what sense? Out of all people you could, it's the wrong person. In what sense? Because you don't understand that I have given up my personal desire completely to be with the heart of the thing, the harmony.
[09:13] And I feel it everywhere. And I feel you even now. So if you really want to [expletive] with something that's surrounding you even now as you speak, watch what happens. So, you think you're allowed to just help yourself to my money? I don't think it matters, Nay. I think you should get the [expletive] over it and get over yourself, too. Well, unless I can come get my things from you. Like, I'm going to need to go to the police and file a police report. Nay, stop trying to [expletive] with me because you're lying and I'm not. I am not [expletive] around. I am not going to jail. Okay? Don't [expletive] with me. I told you that last time. I don't give a [expletive] about you after this. You stole over $1,000 from me. It's [expletive] money. You get plenty of money, you [expletive] idiot.
[10:00] You [expletive] [expletive] You get plenty of money. You're not in distress. You're not in scarcity. Get the [expletive] over yourself. So, I should just give all my money to you. You should get over yourself. You're [expletive] prideful piece of [expletive] All you can do is stroke your own ego. You never can admit that you are prideful and a piece of [expletive] You have a huge [expletive] pride. Huge [expletive] ego. You shouldn't be teaching psychedelics. You don't know what the [expletive] you're talking about. Is it Why should you be able to control what I can do with my life?
[10:45] Get over it. I told you that you should go see to me. So stop. You feel like it's justified. Yeah. And I do cuz I have more important of a role than you right now. I don't care about myself in the same way you do. You're completely self-involved. But you were taking my money for yourself. No, it wasn't for myself. That's why you don't understand. because he wanted It was also for It was also for you because the reality wants you to see your [expletive] insanity. You're [expletive] insane over money. You emptied my bank account, Mich will get more money.
[11:31] You know that's true. Get off your [expletive] ass and call the bank, [expletive] And I should mention too that during that time frame when this recording happened, I have messages to people talking about how he was blackmailing me to try to not get me to report the money as stolen. And he said, quote, "You want to play this game? Don't [expletive] play the fear game with me. I am not afraid. You will lose everything." And then he told me that people like me deserve to be shot. I think it's horrific that Hamilton and Andrew were laughing in the way that they were about accounts from my abuser who became very,
[12:32] Very unwell. And I have ultimately I mean I don't even I don't know if we should include this but it's like I feel like I've just spent so much of my life just trying to like exist and being told that I don't deserve anything and that I'm not good enough and I'm terrible and people like hound me and just like won't stop fixating on all the reasons why I'm terrible and this situation with Hamilton has been yet another extension of that where it's like I have been showing up applying all of my academic training to try to make the world safer for other people because I understand deeply how destabilizing abuse involving psychedelics can be.
[13:25] And to have been treated the way that I have been for doing this work is profoundly disturbing to me. It is a sign of something deeply sick with this field that the way that we have been treated has been condoned and normalized. It's literally stomach turning to listen to that audio and know the way that he's using claims by that person. I don't know what there is to say. the fact that Hamilton and Andrew go on a major have a major platform and they choose to exploit your abuse for their own points to satisfy some especially for Hamilton to satisfy some deep insecurity that he has about what I have no idea is is really disgusting.
[14:26] And the fact that people listen to that guy, I don't it's really a shame. I don't I'm kind of at a loss for words about what kind of man would go and do that for I it's like hard to it's hard to even articulate why you would do that. I can articulate it's malicious. It's a sure I get that aggressive thing. It speaks to a desire to you know bully and you know malign the reputation of a person in public. It's pretty clear. There's a reason why Hamilton's reputation in this space is beyond toxic. I've spoken to lots of people that have used to work with him, used to associate with him, and it's universal.
[15:18] He's a toxic guy. Maybe people should read the New York Magazine article about some of the people who worked clo closely with him. I think we mentioned that in the last video, but I think it's worth people reading about some of those things. And to the clip at hand, I just want to say you show up in this audio in a personal situation like you've shown up to the people coming at you so aggressively like professionally as well, which is calm, matter of fact. and you're clearly the one in the right there. Like I just can't stress enough that I don't know, you appear resilient in these like personal and professional situations in which people are coming at you and it's andrew using a Tom and Jerry cartoon clip to do that. he can go [expletive] himself and the la the laughter is genuinely chilling to me at that point whereas I just find it so yeah just I don't I honestly don't even have words for it it's really
[16:19] There's no words it's so dist and they're gonna of course somebody is going to share this with them and they're going to say well how would I have known that and it's like well dude you didn't ask did you didn't ask you didn't look into this at all you just took the Facebook post of this clearly unwell person and blasted it to the entire score some points for himself. You know, how would I, you know, know such a thing? Well, you know, the story that they wanted to tell, they already knew what story they wanted to tell. These are all just interchangeable pieces. But like what I would like to say is that, you know, these are a lot of absurd claims. Some of them are, you know, silly, others are quite a bit more serious and mean-spirited.
[17:08] This is definitely one of them. I It should go without saying that no one should have to provide and many people don't have receipts like you have just done. It's just not, this isn't the way civilized people behave. But the kinds of behavior that Hamilton has displayed over months to his own, you know, audience and admission o across many platforms, many hours spent in these efforts like there has to be some reply. You should not be expected to provide this kind of reply. But this is our attempt to address in a broad way the many garbage claims and you know at a certain point you stop listening as a person has been you know discredited as a reliable
[18:09] Source of information and in this case as two people have been discredited through their deeds and the quality of their work and the lack thereof they are no longer credible sources and they have not been credible sources for a long time. Those people have other people out there criticizing their work. It's the way these things play out all too often is that somebody turns the lights on and pulls the curtain back to see the small man behind the behind there in front of the controls and then suddenly it was always shoddy. It was always mean-spirited because people can see now.
[18:56] Thanks for your bravery. Shouldn't have to be like this. Yeah. Well, thanks for listening to it with me. And ultimately, yeah, like I don't want people going after him. You know, like my ex, for example, he genuinely is, I think, very unwell. But the reason I shared it was to be instructive about the nature of these narratives and what they're leaving out.
