Episode #2002

Amanda Feilding

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Amanda Feilding is a psychedelics researcher, policy advocate, artist, and founder of the Beckley Foundation. She and Joe Rogan examine psychedelic history, brain activity, altered states, and research into psilocybin, LSD, microdosing, and treatments for conditions including mental illness and Alzheimer’s disease, while also considering drug-policy reform and psychedelics’ broader cultural and therapeutic potential.

What they talked about

  • Early psychedelic experiences in the 1960s
  • Origins of Christianity and psychedelic mushrooms
  • Psychedelic research and the Beckley Foundation
  • Cannabis for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
  • Trepanation and its effects on consciousness
  • LSD microdosing and brain connectivity
  • Psychedelics in human evolution and culture
  • Near-death experiences and endogenous DMT

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