Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
by heavyset_go on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:43AM
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> No names are coming to mind, but I feel like there have been plenty of psychedelic informed cults, with cult leader narcissists who continue to abuse people despite experiencing psychedelics.
Manson would dose himself and his followers to, IMO, lower inhibitions and make them more receptive to his ideas.
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
by asveikau on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @01:54PM
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Supposedly mkultra was also experimenting with that use case.
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
by heavyset_go on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @03:13AM
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Manson's parole officer met with him at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, which allegedly was funded by the CIA and was a vector for the distribution of LSD from the state.
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
by LoganDark on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @08:03AM
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> I know some folks in the HN audience will not like this example, but Elon Musk is one.
Isn't he also a ketamine junkie? Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, although some call it psychedelic, it's not exactly the same thing.
I know some folks in the HN audience will not like this example, but Elon Musk is one.
An older cannonical example is Timothy Leary.
No names are coming to mind, but I feel like there have been plenty of psychedelic informed cults, with cult leader narcissists who continue to abuse people despite experiencing psychedelics.
It may open some doors and cause you to consider more angles, and for many people it helps them with empathy and connectedness, but in another sense it's amplifying what you've already got. A "bad" input can get amplified too.