Jack Symes
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and lay out all the boring maths in a bucket hat out of the shirt and say like, look, my point there was, if you're a Christian, then you've sort of got to accept the fact that there are these evil spirits as well as good ones if you want to accept religious experiences. You can't keep pretending there aren't negative spirits in the world if you're a Christian.
But the deeper point there is like, if it's the same for psychedelic trips as it is for religious experiences, then there are a big number of people in the world who are having these experiences And from my experience, there are loads of people who just won't talk about them as well. They're scared. They're ashamed. They don't want to talk about the negative.
But the deeper point there is like, if it's the same for psychedelic trips as it is for religious experiences, then there are a big number of people in the world who are having these experiences And from my experience, there are loads of people who just won't talk about them as well. They're scared. They're ashamed. They don't want to talk about the negative.
But the deeper point there is like, if it's the same for psychedelic trips as it is for religious experiences, then there are a big number of people in the world who are having these experiences And from my experience, there are loads of people who just won't talk about them as well. They're scared. They're ashamed. They don't want to talk about the negative.
In my life, I probably know about six people who have had the worst kinds of negative experiences you can imagine from psychedelic drugs whose lives have fallen apart because of it.
In my life, I probably know about six people who have had the worst kinds of negative experiences you can imagine from psychedelic drugs whose lives have fallen apart because of it.
In my life, I probably know about six people who have had the worst kinds of negative experiences you can imagine from psychedelic drugs whose lives have fallen apart because of it.
This is good. So are we taking from that 10% of people say that we shouldn't be?
This is good. So are we taking from that 10% of people say that we shouldn't be?
This is good. So are we taking from that 10% of people say that we shouldn't be?
Well, I want to just make it clear, right, so that I've sort of formed an overall view on it, which isn't perhaps as strongly put as I've given there. It's that... I don't want to say that people ought not to be using them or stuff like that. I think in controlled circumstances. Yeah.
Well, I want to just make it clear, right, so that I've sort of formed an overall view on it, which isn't perhaps as strongly put as I've given there. It's that... I don't want to say that people ought not to be using them or stuff like that. I think in controlled circumstances. Yeah.
Well, I want to just make it clear, right, so that I've sort of formed an overall view on it, which isn't perhaps as strongly put as I've given there. It's that... I don't want to say that people ought not to be using them or stuff like that. I think in controlled circumstances. Yeah.
Yeah. So I think that I don't deny the positive things that come from this.
Yeah. So I think that I don't deny the positive things that come from this.
Yeah. So I think that I don't deny the positive things that come from this.
But there's 76 billion neurons there. Right. And we don't know what they're all doing.
But there's 76 billion neurons there. Right. And we don't know what they're all doing.
But there's 76 billion neurons there. Right. And we don't know what they're all doing.