Mescaline with Mike Jay | Living Mirrors #63

Описание: Mike Jay is a writer who has written extensively on the history of science and medicine, with a particular focus on psychoactive drugs. His books on the subject include Emperors of Dreams: drugs in the nineteenth century, High Society: mind-altering drugs in history and culture, and Mescaline: A global history of the first psychedelic.

Topics & timestamps :
0:00 Introduction
0:58 Discovering plant medicine
0:41 Becoming interested in mescaline
3:56 Ancient mescaline cacti use
5:42 Huichol culture
9:58 Spanish colonial contact
13:43 Colonial psychedelic prohibition
17:16 Havelock Ellis & ethnobotany
29:53 Aleister Crowley, the occultist
37:06 Visual hallucinations
39:16 Kluver’s Mescal & the psychology of vision
46:11 Humphrey Osmond & the neurochemistry of schizophrenia
48:40 Aldous Huxley
52:37 Alan Ginsberg’s Howl & William Burroughs
54:17 The dominance of LSD in the 60s
56:44 Hunter S. Thompson
58:13 Carlos Castaneda and the popularisation of Native American cactus shamanism
1:03:39 Mescaline as a treatment for alcoholism
1:07:42 Closing

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