Psychedelic Experience
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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3 statements about Psychedelic Experience, every show
Strauss: Psychedelics force confrontation with avoided memories and emotions
“One of the features of a psychedelic experience is their ability to provoke
Strong feelings or memories that we would otherwise seek to avoid and to really place us front and center in front of those feelings or those memories.
To the extent that they sort of …”
Weisbrot: Everyone should experience psychedelics at age 26 to prepare for marriage
“I've come to the conclusion that everyone should have a psychedelic experience around the age of 26 when their brain is fully developed to help just clear out all the garbage and prepare them for marriage. If they want to get married or prepare them for life, …”
Watts: Psychedelic ego death feels like oneness or physical dying
“When you die on a psychedelic experience, when you have an ego death, that can either feel like, oh, I'm at one with the planet, I am the plants and the trees, I am everything, or it can feel like I'm physically being killed, I'm dying.”