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15 Aug 2018 Conversations with Tyler Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
“I think you’d see less of it because now the persecution complex that goes with the guru complex — they’re related.”
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- Michael Pollan
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- 15 Aug 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…The fact that gurus seem closely connected to some psychedelics — is that structural or just temporary contingency? Yeah, illegality. Partly structural. But what if these drugs were routinely used in psychiatric care? I think you’d see less of it because now the persecution complex that goes with the guru complex — they’re related. Leary thought he was a guru, and he loved the persecution because it enhanced his sense that he was special, he was a prophet, he was dangerous, he was a threat to the system. Yes, I think the illegality . . . Psychiatrists are not that different from gurus, right?…
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