Psilocybin

This is what I've been working with the most by far.

And psilocybin is unique.

Psilocybin mushrooms are unique in my opinion.

And they have always been, still are, and always will be, first and foremost, a spiritual tool.

Even in the book, I begin to argue, and one of the things I didn't expect about writing books that I love so much is that it's really helping me continue to evolve my thinking on the things that I think about.

Don't know if I'm saying that right, but...

Psilocybin itself is actually inactive, and your body converts it into psilocin, and this is what acts on the brain.

It is shaped almost exactly like serotonin, your mood and calm neurotransmitter, and it belongs to the same molecular family as serotonin, melatonin, and DMT.

That's why it fits into your serotonin receptors like a key that's cut almost the same.

You go down the hill, and you go in your toboggan, and you go down the same path over and over and over again, and that's what you know.

You know this same path over and over every single time you walk back up and you go down the hill.

Psilocybin is like a fresh blanket of snow on that hill, and now you're standing at the top of the hill and you're looking down and the possibilities of how you get down that hill are now infinite.

And it is actually remarkable how this plays out in real life.

Again, these are absurdly safe substances.

Psilocybin, LSD, and DMT are comically safe.

It's like crazy how much you can consume and not have like, it's like basically impossible to overdose on these substances.

People don't have heart attacks.

So with the psilocybin though, um, psilocybin has a lot of benefits.

Number one, they're putting people under FMRI imaging.

Well under, um, Psilocybin, well, under the psychedelic experience.

And it is restoring gray matter in the brain.

Neurogenesis is happening.

I always tend to think that the medicine is a part of the discovery.

Psilocybin is one step to kind of opening our mind up to this mind-altering experience.

But truly, the participant is doing a lot of the work once the mind is open.

And how is it reacting in the brain, right? So I love that you gave the analogy of serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

Okay

... am too confused to your point, um, why, uh, psilocybin isn't here yet, or why we couldn't just try that.

Psilocybin is being used in some other states out west, so, um-

Okay

... it's medicalized out there.