Psychedelics

“And I've tried psychedelics, I've tried a bunch of different things when I was younger, and it's great. I think, you know, for some people that gives them tons of value, for me, I'd rather observe reality as it is.”

“One investor told me that he even put it in the deal docs that, you know, if we invest, you're not going to do these psychedelics because they wanted to minimize the risk profile.”

“I felt like it was like 30, 40 years of Psychological rejuvenation. Like, you know, it's like to transform me back to a childlike state. That is insane. I don't get that from the sauna. Or from eating well. Or from sleeping well.”

“It's gonna be clear. I'm not. I've never have. I'm never going to.”

“We see at Silicon Valley where, you know, kind of there, these guys get under pressure and, you know, they kind of feel anxious or whatever, and they decide that, you know, somebody tells them about psychedelics and they try it and they kind of come out the ot…”

“There was psychedelics involved on this trip, and I just remember, so we went to Joshua Tree, I just sat down on this rock on a substance of some sort and this was as I was starting the newsletter, and I just remember sitting there for probably three hours in …”

“The tension in my mind is between spirituality and egotism. And to the extent you can reduce egotism, whether through psychedelics, but also experiences of art, experiences of awe, all of which kind of shrink the eye in a way that can be feel really good that …”

“But my point is you get the same results without it.”

“There's a lot of interesting trials for veterans working on PTSD. You know, also psilocybin is very promising. So I'd say, yeah, psychedelics are having a resurgence in the US of interest where they got pretty buried by the government in the seventies, eightie…”

“When I was in college, Tim Ferriss was directly or indirectly massively promoting psychedelic, like basically as like a lifestyle to the, one of the biggest podcasts in the world. Just telling everybody, like, how great psychedelics are, and I think that that'…”

“There's huge, huge, huge downsides to those substances, and there's too much in Silicon Valley, like, at least when I was in college, Tim Ferriss would be promoting, like, various psychedelics on his show to the super wide audience, and these are really, reall…”

“And our, basically our pitch was like, no, psychedelics are terrible.”

“I don't do drugs. I don't drink. And part of not doing psychedelics is really always being able to have that connection to my soul and not debase my consciousness in any way.”

“I feel like there's a place in the market for looking at things which are usually mixed with psychedelics and usually mixed with meditation or yoga and removing those elements and making it more practical.”

“There's tremendous amount of research that has proven without a shadow of a doubt that, that psychedelics have been amazing for curing depression. Curing depression. Curing treatment-resistant depression”

“Psychedelics allows you to kind of like step outside and look at the sphere, and like maybe look at it from other angles, and like walk around it, look under it, and like, and that is incredible. Like it's an incredible tool.”

“Psychedelics were really the only tool that I found that even when it came to therapy and talking with sort of professionals in that regard, you know, there was always a disconnect between, you know, what I was hearing and what I was being shown and my ability…”

“You should also feel, you know, assured that, you know, you're stronger than you imagine yourself to be, that you will be okay, and that it will very likely be one of the most meaningful experiences of your life, positive or negative.”

“I think some people get that, but I think a lot of people also need multiple experiences to really see that change for themselves.”

“Oftentimes people who have a challenging experience might actually come out of it feeling better than they did an experience that was perhaps easier.”

“I don't think you should fuck with your brain the way some of these people are fucking with their brains, and I think it's gonna, I think we're starting to see some of the ramifications of it with some of the stuff we're talking about here, but I think this is…”

“I do think in 10 years, it's hard to imagine the level of criminalization around psychedelics as exists today, and so if you were out in front of it and building You should reap outsized rewards for doing that.”

“So dosing is a huge issue. Quality control is a huge issue. So I think You have to vertically integrate this whole thing for it to be, I think, a really great company.”

“I believe when respected, they can be great for managing stress, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and possibly make us better human beings and better leaders at smaller doses.”

“Well, I always say that psychedelics saved my life, and definitely gave me an awareness of what the bigger world is like”

“I honestly think one of the reasons I'm bullish on the non-alc space is, like, we are getting to the point where there are just better drugs. Like, if people want to, you know, alter their state of consciousness, I'm seeing a lot more friends that are like, Op…”

“I discourage people from psychedelics more than I encourage.”

“When people are stuck in a very fixed pattern of thinking or of living, psychedelics can break that pattern.”

“They can provide this state of, when you look at the images of brain communication pathways, they go from this kind of segmented lines to this full on explosion where things that, parts of the brain that don't talk to each other all talk to each other, and sud…”

“If you just give someone a psychedelic and you don't encourage them to make the most of the window of opportunity, then what we found with our participants is that the depression came back after three months or so.”

“The brilliant thing about psychedelics is that they turn off that kind of ego, frontal parts, and you can go into the body, and into the heart”

“Psychedelics are a bit more like psychoanalysis and that it's learning to understand, understanding yourself much, much better in a very deep way and making changes. And whereas with psychoanalysis it might be a bit more gradual, that people might get to know …”

“Meditation does that too. It quietens down that mental control. The monkey mind. It's quieting the monkey mind. That's all I would say really we're doing with psychedelics and with meditation.”