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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff to blow your Mind from housetop work

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, wasn't discussedable in your mind. My name

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Speaker 1: is Robert Lamb and I'm Christian Seger. So we are

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Speaker 1: in part two of our M d M A Spectacular,

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Speaker 1: and the last episode we talked primarily about what M

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Speaker 1: d M A is, when it was invented, who invented it,

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Speaker 1: and what its physical effects on the body are, right yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: And so if you haven't listened to that and you

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Speaker 1: want a little bit more background, I recommend that you

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to it. But what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: focus on here today is primarily how it's being used

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Speaker 1: in studies, or how it's been used really for the

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Speaker 1: last thirty or forty years, uh, in studies on how

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Speaker 1: to treat people for various things from everything from mental

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Speaker 1: problems to PTSD to cancer. Yeah, and uh, as as

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Speaker 1: we set up in the last episode, you're basically dealing

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Speaker 1: with two different phases, right. So the such stence is uh,

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Speaker 1: his first sin the size and the early twentieth century.

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Speaker 1: It's not until uh, generally the what the sixties, seventies

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Speaker 1: and eighties that you see it used therapeutically, you see

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Speaker 1: people experimenting with its, uh, the potential potential benefits outside

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Speaker 1: of a recreational environment. But then it becomes enemy number one, right,

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Speaker 1: it becomes caught up in the culture episode. It was

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Speaker 1: immediately placed on like the most restrictive drug list, so

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Speaker 1: scientists couldn't even use it in their labs to study its.

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Speaker 1: And this goes for various psychedelics as well, such as

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Speaker 1: a psilocybin. But then in recent years, we've seen a resurgence.

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Speaker 1: You've seen you've seen psilocybin, you've seen in d m A,

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Speaker 1: all these substance coming back into the lab and uh

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Speaker 1: and and professionals are able to actually explore them some more,

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Speaker 1: look at these undeniably potent, powerful substances and say what

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Speaker 1: what he or can we use? What can we change? What?

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Speaker 1: What can we just try to to use in a

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Speaker 1: proper environment, and and out of it all generate some

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Speaker 1: sort of positive effect. Yeah. And so before we get

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Speaker 1: let's get into the pharmacological healing properties of m d

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Speaker 1: M A and this brings us back to Sholgun. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so Alexander Shulgan, who we talked a lot about in

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Speaker 1: of ecstasy. UH was also primarily responsible for bringing to

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Speaker 1: the psychological community uh in in particular UM his wife Anne.

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Speaker 1: My understanding was that she was a therapist and she

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Speaker 1: to a guy named Leo Zef in ninety seven who

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Speaker 1: And so my understanding is that there is this kind

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Speaker 1: it was tremendously legal. Yes, obviously it U One of

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Speaker 1: in couples therapy. Because ultimately, as as we try to

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Speaker 1: D m A and ecstasy produce, this feeling of ecstasy

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Speaker 1: is is a bitness leading. It's more empathy and sympathy.

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Speaker 1: It's more a feeling of openness. Again, I like to

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Speaker 1: And they continue to explore quote whether m d m

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Speaker 1: criticisms are right. Yeah. So if we don't launch into

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Speaker 1: picking them apart right away, understand it, that's the reason. Yeah. Okay, So, parents,

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Speaker 1: first scenario is that you have a special Air Force

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Speaker 1: post traumatic stress disorder. His therapist says, let's try this

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Speaker 1: that this aggressive act has been triggered by the m

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Speaker 1: Parrot is basically saying, Okay, this guy could potentially go

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Speaker 1: at the atomic level, swapping out some of the atoms

428
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Speaker 1: in its chemical composition to increase its cancer fighting power

429
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Speaker 1: by a factor of a hundred. So to put that

430
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Speaker 1: in perspective, that means that you could have a single

431
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: tablet of modified ecstasy, they would have as much cancer

432
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: fighting power as a hundred tablets without boosting the unwanted

433
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Speaker 1: effects of the drug. So, because because the amount of

434
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: this is my understanding, the amount of m d m

435
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: A needed to start attacking the cancer cells is like

436
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: a hundred grams, right, and so to that would totally

437
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: kill you. Yeah. Yeah, that's like a hundred times as

438
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: much as would be a hundred times a very strong dosage. Yeah,

439
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: So they need to make it more powerful so you

440
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: can take less of it to attack the cancer but

441
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: not have the negative side. Yeah, So basically taking the

442
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: synthetic substance and tweaking it even more to encourage the

443
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,880
Speaker 1: properties you need and discourage the properties that are going

444
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: to kill the patient. And this is exactly the kind

445
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 1: of thing that Alexander Shulgin would have promoted and wanted

446
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: I think his his his studies of these psychedelic compounds

447
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: to be used for going forward, you know, I mean,

448
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: his hope was that they would be studied educationally so

449
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: that we could find these kinds of uses for the Yeah, exactly,

450
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: to go back to the road map scenario, it's saying, hey,

451
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: there's this road and h you didn't know it, but

452
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: there's a little turn here to the left, and it

453
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: leads to a potential cure for cancer. So when you

454
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: get into exactly how this works, uh, you really get

455
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: bogged down rather quickly in the chemical and biochemical details.

456
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 1: But the basic explanation, as a rolled out in that

457
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: paper is the theory behind it is the drug is

458
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: attracted to the fat in the membranes of cancerous cells

459
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: and it makes the cells quote a bit more soapy,

460
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 1: which can break down the membrane and kill the cell. Unfortunately,

461
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: cancerous cells are more susceptible. So again they hope to

462
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: hope to refine this. Uh. Last the most recent stat

463
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: I saw was there hoping to make it possible by

464
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: one but again that was that that that was when

465
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: they were rolling up in that particular, and it said

466
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: they thought they're about a decade away. I'm curious where

467
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 1: they're at with it right now as Yeah, hopefully we'll

468
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: get an update, uh in the near future. Yeah, I

469
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if we see something come out in

470
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: the next year or so. Yeah. So yeah, so all right,

471
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: we've covered PTSD cancer. What else can we use this for. Well,

472
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: we already mentioned couples therapy and about how it was

473
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: rolled out with apparently some level of success in the eighties.

474
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: But there's actually a two thousand fifteen study that was

475
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 1: published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, and they set out

476
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: to examine how m d m A might be used

477
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 1: to improve communication about a spouse in therapy. So this

478
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: is interesting. It seems to be the key key here.

479
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 1: That's not about as much about oh here you both

480
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: take m DMAIN will also together, but it's about getting

481
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: an individual to share their own feelings and open up

482
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: about what's bothering them. So yeah, I could imagine based

483
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: on the stereotypes surrounding m D m A again, people

484
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: hearing this and going oh okay, so they take ecstasy

485
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: and it makes them want to have sex, which would

486
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: subsequently they want to love each other. They feel more open,

487
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: they feel more sympathetic. That's not again ecstasy is a misnomer. Uh.

488
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: And this isn't all sexual. This is more about communication. Yeah,

489
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: and you know, I do have to say that, you know,

490
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 1: it's it's it's totally believable that you would have two

491
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: individuals who have a connection with each other while they're

492
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: on m d M A and then afterwards they realize, well,

493
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: as my normal self even with the inside of what

494
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: I had conversing with this individual, I no longer feel

495
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: that connection. But again, this entails the therapist being present

496
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: and using the information that you bring forth. So yeah, right,

497
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: we don't recommend that like couples just do this in

498
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: their kitchen together. Yeah, certainly not the kitchen. Um. So,

499
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: so we've discussed m duma's ability to increase sociability. The

500
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: drug alter speech production and fluency as well and U

501
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: and according to the study, it may influence speech content.

502
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: So what they did is they rounded up thirty five

503
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: healthy individuals with prior in m d M A experience

504
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: UH completed UM two session with UH within subjects double

505
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: blind study during which they received one point five milligrams

506
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: of oral m d m A, and they also had

507
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: a tiny that's a very small amount, one point five

508
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: that is, so then they would after the the substance

509
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: had taken hold um whatever limited hold it would have.

510
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: Given the dosage, they engaged in five minutes standardized talking

511
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: tasks during which they discussed a close personal relationship, and

512
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: they found that both analytic methods that they employed revealed

513
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: that m d m A altered speech content relative to

514
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: pill see about the drug, increased use of social and

515
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: sexual words, consistent with reports that m d m A

516
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: increases willingness to disclose. Okay, so that lines up with

517
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: what we know from the PTSD thing, right, It makes

518
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: me trust people, it makes you, you know, you're more permeable,

519
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: yourself is more permeable. And using the machine learning algorithm,

520
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: the Receichers researchers found that m d m A increased

521
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: use of social words and words relating to both positive

522
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: and negative emotions. So, in other words, it helped them

523
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: open up about how they felt about the other individual,

524
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: what the problems might be. And and that is why

525
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: it seems like you could be very useful in m

526
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: DM assisted psychotherapy. So I guess like the big problem

527
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: here though, is how illegal it still is, and that

528
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: it's really difficult to conduct trials like this, especially in

529
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: a place like the United States. Right. So, but some

530
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: of the articles that I was reading about both the

531
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: PTSD thing and the cancer studies were saying that they

532
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: think that that there's going to be m d M

533
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: A approved by the FDA, the Federal Drug Administration again,

534
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: like maybe in the next ten years or so. Yeah,

535
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: and it seems like the same prognosis with Canadian law.

536
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: This is just me here, but my my worry here

537
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: is that what happens when this gets beyond peer reviewed publications,

538
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: science journalism and uh and you know in radio programs

539
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: and podcast what happens when this becomes a political football

540
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: and we have individuals saying, oh, well, you're about to

541
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: allow our psychotherapists to start giving ecstasy to people. What happens? Then?

542
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of another stuff to blow

543
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: your mind related thing, when you did that video last

544
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: week about the god helmet, and there's a lot of

545
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: response on social media when we posted that video, I

546
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: got the impression that a lot of people just read

547
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: the headline and didn't watch the video, but they are

548
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: basically if give a primer on what the god helmet is, well,

549
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: this was basically we're talking about cranial electromagnetic stimulation affecting

550
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: various portions of the brain, if very basically turning things

551
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: in your brain on and off in order to see

552
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: how they affect. Electrical stimulation. Slide electrical stimulation to see

553
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: how it affects your experience of reality, right, and uh,

554
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: there was some research involving this that's saying that you know,

555
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: by changing the way that you perceive reality, it might

556
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: be able to help people overcome racism, for instance, right. Uh.

557
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,719
Speaker 1: And the responses to that on our our social media channels,

558
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: a lot of people were very angry because they saw

559
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: that as kind of like mind control, right, almost like

560
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: in a fascist kind of sense. So I could see

561
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,479
Speaker 1: the same thing happening with M D m A. Right,

562
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, these these therapists, you know, they're the

563
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: activist therapists are going to try to reprogram our brains,

564
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: so we're just like them. Well, I mean the thing

565
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: is that both of these situations, whether you're talking about

566
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, electrical stimulation of the brain, or pharmacological stimulation

567
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: of the brain. You're dealing with a psychedelic effect. You know,

568
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: you're you're taking your normal consciousness experience and you're tweaking

569
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: it a bit. You're changing and you're changing your perception

570
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: of self uh and reality in at least a very

571
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: limited way. And that that can be frightening, that can

572
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: be illuminating, And that's that's the whole that's psychedelia as

573
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: a whole door for a lot of experiences, and a

574
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: lot of them think of it like sort of along

575
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: the lines of um drawings. Okay, so let's say like

576
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: you're looking at a drawing, and if you know what

577
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: one point perspective is, it's kind of how Wes Anderson

578
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: shoots a lot of his cookies, right, Like, you've got

579
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: a center point and everything stems out of that center

580
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: point coming at you. But then you can switch to

581
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: two point perspective or three point perspective, where you're looking

582
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: at multiple angles, or you're looking up or down from

583
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: like a skyscraper or something like that, right, And that's

584
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: like a very basic metaphor for what's going on here.

585
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: It's just changing the perspective with which you can look

586
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: at the world with yeah, one might be heard to

587
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: say something along the lines of, I've never thought about

588
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: myself that way before. I've never thought about uh, this

589
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: individual in this particular way before. And again, this isn't

590
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: us condoning like go out and do m d m

591
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: A right now, or us saying don't do m d

592
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: m A right It's it's neither of those things. But

593
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: I do think that it's interesting within a restrictive environment

594
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: using it in conjunction with therapy, and especially uh, you know,

595
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: in a clinic like this, where there's somebody on hand

596
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: in case like you have a bad reaction or whatever, right,

597
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: rather than being in a farm in the middle of

598
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: the woods where there's a secret a coming on. Now.

599
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: The final example of m d m A therapy and

600
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: m d m A research that we want to mention

601
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: here is the possibility of using m d M A

602
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: to treat individuals who are having a hard time with

603
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: with their with their impending death, with with with fatal

604
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: life you know, fatal conditions, life threatening illnesses, uh as

605
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: they approach the death point. And there have been some

606
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: other studies that involve psilocybin and it's use magic mushrooms

607
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: psilocybin as as a way to help people deal with

608
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: that scenario. It's not just the pain we're talking about here, right,

609
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: We're talking just gravity of understanding your yeah, thinking about yourself,

610
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: and the grappling with mortality and the basic heavy human stuff.

611
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: So the the main individual here is uh San and

612
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: sell Most psychiatrist Phil Wolfson, and he's currently studying the

613
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: use of m d m A assisted psychotherapy to ease

614
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: anxiety in eighteen adults diagnosed with life threatening illnesses. Now,

615
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: all of these individuals have a prognosis life expectancy of

616
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: at least nine months there can they currently have severe

617
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: anxiety related to life threatening illness. So his goal here

618
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: is to see whether patients suffering from crippling anxiety, fear,

619
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: or depression over a terminal diagnosis can confine relative peace

620
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: via in d m A assisted psychotherapy sessions. So it's

621
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 1: kind of the same scenario we've talked about with these

622
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: previous psychotherapy examples, helping them open up about what's happening,

623
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: help them gain a little perspective on what's happening, and

624
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: in doing so, perhaps find a place of peace. Right,

625
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: see it from a different angle, one with less fear. Yeah,

626
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: but again, Wilson's study is just getting off the ground here.

627
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: UM just started up this year, so hopefully we'll we'll

628
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: hear more of the details in the years to come.

629
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: Uh And you know, some of the core findings, and

630
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: there's clearly got to be a lot of more research

631
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: done in all of these areas before we're just doing this,

632
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: you know, casually, especially in the sense of like predicting

633
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 1: that the f d A is going to approve m

634
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: d M A for these public use. And I think,

635
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: I mean casual is a good thing to mention because

636
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: I think the underlying truth here is that it's such

637
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: a potent and powerful substance that it should never never

638
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: be done casually. Like I would argue that even in

639
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: a recreational environment, it's not something to take lightly. Yeah,

640
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: I mean the research that needs to be done right

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Speaker 1: now is on all kinds of things, like why individuals

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Speaker 1: we talked about the first episode, there's very occasionally individuals

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Speaker 1: who have like cardiac arrest or seizures or something that's

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Speaker 1: not a common side effect of this, But why is

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Speaker 1: it happening to these some individuals right, Other things like

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Speaker 1: why is there such a variance in the mood reactions?

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Speaker 1: Why for some people is at all positive but for

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Speaker 1: other people there's positive and negative or others it's just negative.

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Speaker 1: You know what's going on there? How do other drugs

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Speaker 1: in conjunction work with m d M A, right, especially

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Speaker 1: like when you think about UM PTSD patients who are

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Speaker 1: already taking daily medication for their PTSD, how's that interacting

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Speaker 1: with the m D I mean, even Sasha Shulgin in

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Speaker 1: his research parties would tell his his friends, Look, don't

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Speaker 1: take any medication for like three to five days before

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Speaker 1: you come over here. And then you know, we just

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Speaker 1: need to figure out the chronic tolerance development as well,

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Speaker 1: to like nail that down. Why is it that when

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Speaker 1: we take m d M A human bodies basically over time,

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Speaker 1: probably like between one dose and ten doses, over time

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Speaker 1: the positive effects lesson in the negative effects get worse. Indeed, Now,

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Speaker 1: to close out here, I just want to throw out

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Speaker 1: a quick quote. This comes to us from from Alan

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Speaker 1: Watts the late British Buddhist and encounter culture um icon.

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Speaker 1: I'd say UM wrote a lot spoke a lot about

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Speaker 1: about Buddhism and h and also a certain amount about

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Speaker 1: about other other modes of religion, and also about a

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Speaker 1: the time time he was alive. This particular quote comes

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Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy and he's he's probably commenting more directly

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Speaker 1: on on overt psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD. But I

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Speaker 1: think this holds true for a lot of what we've

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Speaker 1: talked about regarding m D m A. He says, psychedelic

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Speaker 1: experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but

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Speaker 1: a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the

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Speaker 1: various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer

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Speaker 1: necessary or useful. If you get the message hang up

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Speaker 1: the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments like microscopes, telescopes,

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Speaker 1: and telephones. The biologist does not sit with I permanently

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Speaker 1: glued to the microscope. He goes away and works on

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Speaker 1: what he has seen. And I think that that matches

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Speaker 1: up rather nicely with the with the goals of m

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Speaker 1: D and assisted psychotherapy. I do, yeah, And I kind

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Speaker 1: of have always thought of Alan Watts as being sort

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Speaker 1: of contemporary of Sasha Shulguns as well to kind I

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Speaker 1: wonder if those guys ever met, but they're kind of

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Speaker 1: like on the same Yeah, exactly, that them and the

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Speaker 1: two of them in Timothy Lyric here on The Psychedelic Avengers.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, I think that's about you know, what we've

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Speaker 1: got here on M D M A. But I'd really

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Speaker 1: like to hear from you the audience some more about

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Speaker 1: this because I'm sure there's a lot of things we

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Speaker 1: didn't cover. The literature in this is dense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we spent two days studying all this stuff leading up

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Speaker 1: to it, and I there's no way we could even

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Speaker 1: touch the surface. You know, there's just so much that's

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Speaker 1: being studied in it right now. So I'd love to

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Speaker 1: know if there's things that we missed, or there's things

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Speaker 1: in particular that you you know about that are in

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Speaker 1: trial right now or being studied right now that we

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Speaker 1: would be interested in coming back to in a future episode.

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Speaker 1: Get in touch with us over social media. That is

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Speaker 1: on periscope every Friday at noon. Yeah, and if you

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Speaker 1: would like to hear us take this approach, this sort

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Speaker 1: of one to approach with with other substances such as

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Speaker 1: h such as marijuana. We've ever done any content on

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Speaker 1: Let us know if you'd like to hear eisdesfect. The

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Speaker 1: idea for this episode came out of us talking about

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Speaker 1: the instances of synthetic cannabis in the news. Yeah, and hey,

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