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Can MDMA make you a better person? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the neuroscience of empathy, psychopathy, and MDMA in the brain with neuroscientist Ben Rein, PhD. 

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Do psychedelics reveal a different objective reality? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice learn about psychedelic drugs, treating PTSD, and other mind-bending research with President of Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Rick Doblin.

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Dr Jordan B Peterson and Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris delve into the world of psychedelic research, their utility in therapy, and the impact they can have on neuroticism. They also explore broader aspects of psychopathology, brain imaging, optimized play, and the way trauma can warp our perspectives of the world.

Robin is the Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor in Neurology and Psychiatry and Director of Neuroscape’s Psychedelics Division at the University of California, San Francisco. He moved to Imperial College London in 2008 after obtaining a PhD in Psychopharmacology from the University of Bristol. Robin has designed human brain imaging studies with LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and DMT, and several clinical trials of psilocybin therapy for severe mental illnesses. Robin founded the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London in April 2019, was ranked among the top 31 medical scientists in 2020, and in 2021, was named in TIME magazine’s ‘100 Next’ – a list of 100 rising stars shaping the future. His research is creating system-level change in mental health care.

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(0:00) Coming Up

(1:00) Intro

(2:50) Implicit learning

(7:52) Tuned perceptions, warped vantage points

(12:00) Rebirth, rapid new learning

(16:00) Alcoholism, unlearning pain

(20:22) Neuroticism, Freud, and the disconnect

(24:00) Cascading depression

(30:10) Functional depression

(35:30) The source of psychopathology

(46:48) The psychedelic experience

(49:47) Genetic mutation, error correction

(53:30) Micro and macro environments

(56:33) The multitude within

(58:39) Pageau, optimized play

(1:04:00) When play is absent from the system

(1:07:25) Depth of play, levels of engagement

(1:09:55) Local minima

(1:13:29) Psychedelics and antidepressants

(1:17:40) Creative surging under influence

(1:21:30) Every benefit has a cost

(1:23:32) Terrance and Dennis McKenna, false positives

(1:26:15) Paranoid Schizophrenia

(1:29:26) The feeling of confidence vs. uncertainty

(1:33:33) Exposure therapy, building up bravery

(1:35:00) Brain imaging, mapping experience

(1:38:40) Entropic brain principle

(1:40:00) Between order and chaos, Marduk

(1:44:16) Signatures of criticality, the Alpha Rhythm

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When you look at the world, it can feel like we're in a precarious moment. If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know we call this the meta-crisis — an era of overlapping and interconnected crises like climate change, polarization, and the rise of decentralized technologies like synthetic biology. It can feel like we’re on a path to destroy ourselves.

That's why we’re talking to Rick Doblin, the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS. They’re a nonprofit focused on educating and researching the benefits of using psychedelic therapy to address PTSD and promote humane ways of relating worldwide.

Doblin’s vision is for nothing less than a transformation of society through psychedelic-assisted therapy – not for the drugs themselves, but for their ability to help us react to one another with compassion, appreciate differences, and accept criticism.

Given the perma-crisis we face, it’s provocative to think about a tool that, when prescribed and used safely, could help us overcome rivalrous dynamics out in the world and on social media. If we rescue our hijacked brains, we can heal from the constant trauma inflation we get online, and shrink the perception gap that splits us into tribes.

Both MAPS and Center for Humane Technology want to understand what helps minds heal and be free. We invite you to keep an open mind about a different kind of humane technology as you listen to this episode. 

Correction: 

Doblin attributes a quote to Stan Grof about psychedelics helping your ego be “transparent to the transcendent.” In his book Pathways to Bliss, Joseph Campbell wrote, "When a deity serves as a model for you, your life becomes transparent to the transcendent as long as you realize the inspiring power of that deity. This means living not in the name of worldly success and achievement, but rather in the name of the transcendent, letting the energy manifest through you.” Grof was likely paraphrasing Campbell’s work and applying it to psychedelics. 

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The episode contains an original musical composition by Jeff Sudakin. Used with permission.

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Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

The non-profit founded by Rick Doblin in 1986 focused on developing medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. MAPS has some open clinical trials; see details on their website. 

Rick Doblin’s TED talk

In this fascinating dive into the science of psychedelics, Doblin explains how drugs like LSD, psilocybin and MDMA affect your brain - and shows how, when paired with psychotherapy, they could change the way we treat PTSD, depression, substance abuse and more.

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Pollan writes of his own consciousness-expanding experiments with psychedelic drugs, and makes the case for why shaking up the brain's old habits could be therapeutic for people facing addiction, depression, or death.

How to Change Your Mind on Netflix

The docuseries version of Pollan’s book

Breath by James Nestor

This popular science book provides a historical, scientific and personal account of breathing, with special focus on the differences between mouth breathing and nasal breathing.

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Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari 

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This is Part 2 of my interview with Jason Silva. Listen to Part 1 here. Be warned: after this one, you're likely going to end up a Jason Silva junkie like I did. And be warned again: this episode covers an absurd amount of topics in 30 minutes and may blow your mind.

Jason Silva is an Emmy-nominated and world renowned TV personality, storyteller, filmmaker, and sought-after keynote speaker and futurist. He is best known for hosting 5 seasons of the Emmy-nominated, global hit TV series Brain Games, on the National Geographic Channel, broadcasted in over 171 countries. His inspirational videos, Shots of Awe, have received over 100 million views across social platforms. Most recently he hosted the global miniseries Origins: The Journey Of Humankind on the National Geographic Channel.

In Part 2, we go in-depth on:

• The nature of reality, of course
• And the nature of time, of course
• And objectivity vs. subjectivity, brilliantly framed by Jason as Church vs. State 
• An Alain de Botton quote (listen to my epic two-part talk with him here)
• Where science and poetry converge and diverge
• The Great Gatsby and even more F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The nagging feeling that your life is a film complete with setting, plots, and characters
• The awe felt in discovering a new world, and literally, the discovery of The New World
• How our world is currently in a panic attack due to pandemic
• Negotiating with your amygdala to find peace in the "deep now"
• Jason's privileged yet dangerous childhood in Venezuela
• Jason's views on romantic love and his belief that the honeymoon can last forever

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Today’s guest is essentially a professional mind-blower, and man is he good at what he does. This is Part 1 of 2.

Jason Silva is an Emmy-nominated and world renowned TV personality, storyteller, filmmaker, and sought-after keynote speaker and futurist. He is best known for hosting 5 seasons of the Emmy-nominated, global hit TV series Brain Games, on the National Geographic Channel, broadcasted in over 171 countries. His inspirational videos, Shots of Awe, have received over 100 million views across social platforms. Most recently he hosted the global miniseries ORIGINS: The Journey Of Humankind on the National Geographic Channel.

I’m a big fan of Jason’s ever since my dear son Ali recommended his show. Call me corny, but I’m in awe of how this guy thinks and communicates.

I had no idea what to speak to him about because his scope of interest is massive: futurism, technology, creativity, the science of awe, disruptive innovation, relationships and mental health. Where we ended up has made for one of the most fascinating episodes yet. Even though we didn’t always agree, he opened my mind to a new paradigm for understanding perception itself. Don’t miss this.

In Part 1, we discuss:

• Our shared love and admiration for the Netherlands
• Why Jason sees himself as an artist more than anything else
• The importance of awe for engaging the world meaningfully
• Flow cycles, and why Jason has been called a “cognitive ecstasy addict”
• Why children are always nomads in a sense, and how that avoids jadedness
• How adults create maps of the world to save energy, but lose the intensity of the lived experience
• The health benefits of awe and Jason’s awe triggers: new experiences and cannabis
• How cannabis puts you in the present moment to experience, as Michael Pollan said, “a sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness”
• Escapism vs Intensification: a debate on the utility of weed
• Shaking up stuck patterns through psychedelics 

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