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Psymposia advisory board member and psychedelic researcher, Jae Sevelius, joins us to talk about queer theory, psychedelic research with transgender and gender diverse people, and what happens when political assumptions go unexamined in both research contexts and the world at large. Drawing on the w
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Psymposia editors discuss Dr. Martin Ball’s “session info” document that the retired 5-MeO-DMT practitioner sent to Psymposia. Dr. Ball has referenced the document in defense of his practices and cites it as evidence that his clients consented to him touching their genitals or vomiting on them while
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Presented by David Nickles at the Boom Festival in Portugal in 2014
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By popular demand: A recut of Dr. Martin Ball's statements at a 2016 Los Angeles Medicinal Plants Society (LAMPS) lecture.
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Psymposia Advisory Board member Alex Zaitchik drops in to chat about his work and experiences as an investigative journalist with a critical analysis of capitalism. Alex has covered topics ranging from the effects of extractive industry on Indigenous communities, to the existential need for degrowth
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Search "psychedelics" on YouTube and you're likely to encounter Joe Rogan, Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson—nodes of the now-in-decline Intellectual Dark Web (IDW). Contrary to popular conceptions, psychedelics don't result in more progressive or liberatory values.
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A brief rundown of the connections between the rioters at the Capitol, QAnon, and psychedelia. What happens when you take LSD and listen to Alex Jones? Excerpted from the January "Castalia" Livestream.
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Jumping off of an audience comment that Julius Evola was the "OG fascist mystic dude," the team discusses long-running trends of fascist-adjacent psychedelia, corporate influence, and the "collateral damage" of psychedelic therapy.
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Psymposia discusses the tensions of decriminalization, bioprospecting, and the complex interconnections between industrial and Indigenous populations with relationships to drugs in response to a question posed during the January "Castalia" Livestream.
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In this episode, we’re joined by our new advisory board member Yarelix Estrada to discuss her experiences with organizing psychedelic societies, psychedelic exceptionalism, and harm reduction on the streets of New York. Yarelix shares insights from her formal and practical training in public health
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Brian Normand and David Nickles are joined by Psymposia Senior Writer Russell Hausfeld to discuss MindMed’s CEO, Jamon Rahn’s, recent claims that his company “may be creating effectively the Tesla of mental health,” and that the company is now a “$1B+ Unicorn.”
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