Elisabeth McKay

All this to say...

Two things are true.

There can be a time and a place where somebody can benefit from something like this, and there can be a time and a place where this can change somebody's life irrevocably forever.

And far too often, the latter is true.

I think we need to be very conscientious of how we have let certain, you know, air quotes, spiritual practices kind of seep into the mental health space.

And with that in mind, I do think that at the same time, we have kind of a gaping God chasm in mental health.

So I'm certainly not saying there is no place for spirituality in mental health because I think there is.

I think there's actually a lot of that missing.

But often what ends up getting put on a pedestal are things like

medicine journey and hallucinogens.

And I think we're going to see this pushed much more.

Even things like I know that now RFK Jr.

is starting to kind of expedite psychedelic research and access to psychedelics.

I mean, I've done Molly as well.

I'm a pretty happy person.

I do not really get like moody and down in the dumps and depressed.

I have never felt worse in my whole

whole life than after i did molly the next day i was like oh this is what it feels like to be in full-blown depression and suicidal ideation this is terrible hated every second of it would never ever ever ever ever ever ever do it again so example i can't be the only one that has that experience and believe me because i was a raver for a long time i've seen other people go through that i just was such i was such a control freak back then that i never even tried i was like a

These things can be really dangerous.

And as we are seeing access be given more and more, I am doing this episode to encourage you to hit the pause button and to think more clearly about whether you are a candidate or whether you actually are somebody whose life could be permanently damaged by engaging in things like this.