Tim Ferriss

who looked at MDMA extensively among octopuses also.

Among octopuses?

Yeah, and how octopuses, which are very asocial or antisocial most of the time, but how even with a completely different nervous system, how they would display prosocial behavior, just like humans on MDMA.

Oh, sir.

Really fascinating stuff.

But what she is also looking at now is how you might use psychedelics to, and I might be getting some of the details wrong, but I'm not that far off, to say help stroke patients to redevelop motor control.

Is there an application there?

And the reason that she's looking at potential applications like that is that she believes certain psychedelics reopen a critical period or a critical window, much like if kids don't learn to, say, speak a language within a certain age range.

It's much later to do later.

There's a critical developmental window for certain things.

Can you reopen those windows using psychedelics?

And it seems like the answer is yes.

In which case, all of the advice that the old timers have been giving about integrations for people who might be familiar with ayahuasca in a traditional context, the diets afterwards, abstaining from certain things,

for a few weeks what does that sound a lot like sounds a lot like what science is only beginning to scratch the surface of which is the reopening of these these critical periods critical windows within which you can start to rewrite behaviors like before the concrete sets so i'm very i would say

mind-blown and impressed with what these compounds can do as part of a larger context of some type of therapy.

And there are a lot of different approaches to this.

And the Westernized version of, like, neo-shamanic practices is very different from what they actually do.

in whether it be the Amazon or Africa or fill in the blank, right?

Like, the practices are very different, or the Mazatecs in Mexico, et cetera.

So, I would say I'm very impressed, and I'm also very conservative.