Outstanding energy in a musician/journalist who has suffered greatly. He's a great testament that disease & hardship is a blessing in disguise. He didn't seem to answer your question about how he came to 'magic mushroom' therapy, but wherever it came from, he was decades ahead of the current surge in the healing power of psychedelic plants.
He had little to say about mom. Maybe that's why dad was the big figure b/c she was absent. Plenty of fine ppl are raised by only one parent.
As is well-documented in John Potash's excellent documentary,
Drugs As Weapons Against Us, CIA-funded Timothy Leary and other intelligence assets helped to popularize psychedelics, such as LSD, on college campuses specifically and in the American culture, generally.
The whole hippie scene, despite its organic 'anti-establishment' appearance, had been socially engineered (with help from Aldous Huxley, primarily), in part to subdue and sedate the younger generations; essentially to control them by making and keeping them enervated and apolitical. While these CIA-funded gurus and other assets were out trying to make psychedelics seem 'cool' they were at the same time also out prohibiting them, knowing that this authoritative use of employing reverse psychology would get many to try them, out of contempt for the government and 'controlling' power structure more than anything else, as to be counted among the rebellious dupes.
Magic mushrooms, therapeutic? Not oxymoronic?
I've never been a psychonaut myself but I was at one time a rather huge Daniel Pinchbeck fan, up until I started learning some things about him that made me begin to look at him and his work in an entirely different light. His interview with Alex is a case in point.
I wonder if all those human guinea pigs who were given hallucinogens as part of the MK-ULTRA program -- the unfortunate Frank Olson among countless other experimentees -- would agree in psychedelics possessing 'healing power'?
Self-described and long-time ethnobotany researcher, Jan Irvin, has just published a new book entitled,
God's Flesh: Teonanacatl: The True History Of The Sacred Mushroom (2022), as someone who's positively transformed himself from once being a user and promoter of these mind-polluting, soul-destroying substances into a clear-thinking new man and admirable heretic of the psychedelic quasi-religion. He's been largely crucified in the (establishment-controlled) alt-media for his renouncing of these alt-culturally venerated sacraments ever since.
Somewhat off topic but I just saw a few videos from this channel on AI
Reading this, and those who think the Antichrist will be an AI suddenly don't sound all that flaky. And here I thought all this gibberish about humans living in a virtual reality/digital matrix was just the mad ravings of self-deluded head-trippers, New Age channelers, or satanic propagandists. Mystery solved, it appears. Who knew this originated with the Gospel of Bot? She's clearly a victim of mind-control, if you ask me. Who her programmers are is what I'd like to know, and whether their relationship to her is strictly platonic?
