Psychedelics have long been known to “open up the mind.” Not exactly a social party drug, psilocybin can lead to profound introspection. The experience is likened here to spending all of one’s waking life in a small part of the mind, just a garden, with psilocybin unlocking a gate leading to a forest and encouraging exploration.

Click above to listen to part 1 of Skeptic Check: Shroom with a View, featuring Merlin Sheldrake, Biologist and the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds and Shape our Futures.

Shroom with a View:
Part 1: Merlin Sheldrake / Mind Exploration
Part 2: Sandra Hernandez with David Robinson / Datura Discovery
Part 3: Albert Garcia-Romeu / Psychotropic Therapy

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