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11 Aug 2021 Conversations with Tyler Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys
“I love thinking about stuff. I think my mind can go down a rabbit hole. This was part of the problem with me for a long time: I had terrible insomnia until I found cannabis in my late 30s.”
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- 11 Aug 2021
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…This is the book we want you to publish in your last four years. [laughs] — good highdeas, things I can’t really say or think about. But I just let my mind wander. I’m just a curious person. I love thinking about stuff. I think my mind can go down a rabbit hole. This was part of the problem with me for a long time: I had terrible insomnia until I found cannabis in my late 30s. Some of us have minds that just won’t stop and it can be an ordeal. It’s not for lack of — I’m not going to not think while I’m on weed or even when I’m on MDMA. I find, for example, on MDA mushrooms, it’s all theology for me. It’s all about God. It’s all about the relationship between the Trinity, the possibility of the Incarnation — these things are what I become obsessed with when I’m really on mushrooms or MDMA or the hallucinogens. Yes, it becomes all about Christianity in a very weird way. You know it was Herodotus who first suggested the idea of examining all ideas, both when sober and when drunk —…
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