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Does a psychedelic microdose offer dangerous wisdom?

Jim Fadiman, one of the most venerable leaders in the psychedelic renaissance of the dominant culture, together with Buddhist yogini and holistic health practitioner Rachael Henrichsen, join us to discuss Jim's new book, Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance---the first comprehensive book on microdosing. Microdosing potentially offers some wonderful dangerous wisdom. You can find the book, and also report your experiences with microdosing, here:

https://www.microdosingbook.com/

Find Rachael here: https://redgateintegrativemedicine.com

In the introduction to his book, Jim writes:

I’ve been investigating psychedelics, professionally and personally, since the early 1960’s. Until 15 years ago I knew nothing about very small doses, nor did anyone else I knew. However, I’ve focused on little else since then, discovering, reviewing, and sharing the extraordinary results that people have reported after taking a 10th or less of a full-on psychedelic trip dose. During all those other decades I was fixated on transcendent doses (not concert, not recreational, not therapeutic, not even problem solving). As I reflect on what I know now, I am filled with wonder and chagrin as well as gratitude and humility.

I was introduced to psychedelics one night at a sidewalk cafe in Paris in 1961, when my favorite professor, Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass), put a pill into my hand and said, “The greatest thing in the world has happened to me, and I want to share it with you.” A few months later, no longer in Paris, I was a draft-dodging psychology graduate student at Stanford University. Apart from my academics, I worked off-campus with a private clinic that was pioneering psychedelic psychotherapy. There, I took a high dose of LSD in a safe, guided environment and had an incredible awakening, becoming aware of the interconnectedness of all things. That realization and its aftermath has shaped the rest of my life.

These days, there is an ever-expanding number of books by people recounting how all of those astounding, amazing, fantastic trips changed their lives.

This is not one of those.

It is, instead, about how thousands and thousands of people all over the world have improved their health and their capacities without the razzle dazzle, heaven-opening, reality-expanding experiences that made the 60’s such an optimistic culture-changing decade.