Ben Greenfield

through the roof for a couple of weeks.

Normally this is, this is something that they would do for somebody who has like extreme PTSD, for example, but it's also just good for, for relaxing the nervous system.

And then there was about an eight year stint where I did very high amounts of just about every psychedelic and entheogen known to humankind in very large amounts, just to see what they did to the brain.

i wouldn't say that any of them are that great because well i'll come right out and say that i think that it's a very dangerous place to be taking heroic doses of large amounts of psychedelics because traditionally they've been used to divine with the spirit world and i actually believe that you like cross a spiritual portal and you can get exposed to different entities and interact with

you know, demons, angels, spirits, et cetera.

And that's a dangerous place for a human being to be.

And that's one of the reasons that I don't mess around with any of that stuff anymore.

Besides like occasionally, you know, microdosing with psilocybin or something like that.

So the craziest one is not one, but there is a place that very few people know about based a little bit outside of Nashville, Tennessee, out in the sticks, this giant, like,

mansion with barbed wire fences all over it and a giant sign on the gates that says we don't call the cops.

And they have several people who work there who have undergone some pretty intensive training and are able to expertly combine like a whole bunch of different entheogens together to almost turn default or down regulate the default mode network while simultaneously turning your brain into like a supercomputer.

and then your entire experience for anywhere from six to like 30 hours in some cases is recorded as you're talking and i did that eight times over the course of three years and that was probably the just the craziest in terms of like piles and piles and piles of papers and reams of material just like written from my brain being a totally different state

And now, you know, just like business ideas, relationship ideas, different breakthroughs, you know, dealing with history of past things.

You know, the reason that a lot of people do these things.

But again, like, I'm not saying this to brag about having, like, done lots of drugs or something like that.

Or even to...

endorse that in most cases for most people.

What I mean is that it's much better in most cases to climb to the top of Mount Everest rather than being dropped off by a helicopter on top of Mount Everest.

And a lot of people will hear me say something like that and not do the work, things like prayer and fasting and working on your relationships.

And they're just like, yes, I want to go do the drugs and get rid of the issues.