Joe Rogan

The right celebrates this as a win for masculinity and patriotism and all these different things.

Like, OK, settle down.

Everybody settle down.

We should all be together.

And I mean one of the things that I wanted to do when we went to the White House to try to push through –

Psychedelics for therapy for veterans and people, you know, first responders, people struggling with PTSD is you need to take these steps to give people a path to change their mind, right?

I think that's the title of Michael Pollan's book, and it's a great way to describe it.

Change your mind.

Change your whole perspective.

And there's no better way to change your whole perspective than a complete dissolving of your ego momentarily.

At least for a while, just lock it all away, push it out, and then you get a chance to see what it actually is doing and the effect that it has when you let it back into your life.

I described it as like control, alt, delete for your brain.

And then when your brain reboots, it has one folder.

And that folder is just labeled my old bullshit.

Yeah.

And you have a decision to make.

You go back into my old bullshit.

And most people do at least a little.

I do a little.

But for sure, you recognize that it's your old bullshit instead of thinking you are who you thought you are.