Tim Ferriss

And it's certainly contributed to the near suicide.

in retrospect, right?

I thought I had 17 different problems, but when you look back, hindsight 2020, it's like, oh, yeah, all that stuff makes sense.

There's one, like, there's, like, hardware, like, genetics, plus trauma.

Like, is that... Did you learn that through psychedelics?

That's part... I would say it's one of the tools that made it very clear where I was able to see how these seemingly disconnected pieces of puzzle fit together perfectly.

And, um...

Psychedelics are fascinating for a lot of reasons.

I've stepped outside of the public discussion of psychedelics largely in the last few years because I've just been disgusted by all the infighting and humans being humans.

Like, there's...

Humans just cannot resist soiling the nest, peeing in the pool, choose your metaphor.

It's like all of the infighting and nonsense and politics and power grabbing that you see in any group of humans, you also see within the psychedelic ecosystem, right?

So anyone...

Anyone who thinks you just need to put LSD in the water supply and we're going to have world peace, I'm like, you should go to a psychedelic conference and see all the assholery and fuckery afoot.

And trust me, I can assure you that that will not work.

And at the same time, I mean, some of the most beautiful, wonderful, inexplicable, and also painful experiences I've ever had have involved psychedelics.

And you do need to be very, very careful with them.

I really feel like, as one of my good friends who passed away due to cancer, but Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins, he said, in effect, like, you're using psychological nuclear power.

it's like it doesn't just bend one way right like it's inducing a level of plasticity and suggestibility and malleability but how you shape that play-doh once it's heated up matters a lot so you can't just dose and run it's like the experience does matter experience itself does matter but the way i encourage people to think about it

is number one, like, treat it as if you were going into have brain surgery.