The Birth of Microdosing with Robert Forte
Dec 11, 2024•55 min•Season 12Ep. 50
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Episode description
Psychedelic scholar and Word Up favorite, Robert Forte, returned to the podcast to talk about the early days of microdosing and how “the secret that everybody knew” became a tech bro fad/multi-illion dollar psyop.
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Show notes:
- Micro-dosing: "the secret everybody knew"
- “Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience” by Steven Siff
- 'Father of Microdosing'- James Fadiman & LSD
- Insertion of micro-dosing into social arena via media
- Placebo to clinical effects
- CIA & the Psychedelic Renaissance
- 1960’s Anti-war movement- Weathermen Underground
- Psychedelic psy-op as gov’t mind control
- ‘Severity of initiation’ studies
- Mysticism and formation of cults
- Podcasters- agents for control or seekers of truth
- Current micro-dosing trend- helpful or harmful?
- Zuckerberg- modelling “only happy/no shadow-work"
- Psychedelics aren’t for everybody- “the rich get richer"
- The Upanishads- micro-dosing is a personal exploration
- Ayahuasca- perversion of a sacred shamanistic practice
- Impermanence of life
- “Christianization” of psychedelics
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