Timothy Leary got some things right | ERIK DAVIS, PhD

Interview with Erik Davis, PhD.: Author, Award-winning Journalist, USA.
Filmed at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR) 2024 in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Learn more: https://www.icpr-conference.com/

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Questions:
00:00 Intro
00:05 Eric, how did you get interested in psychedelics?
01:27 In the 60s, for many people, psychedelics served as a gateway to eastern spirituality for other people, it was the other way. How was it in your life?
02:58 The counterculture in the 60s had a complicated relationship with psychedelics. Can you talk about that relationship?
04:08 Did the counterculture fail its mission?
05:04 While reading your articles, I had the feeling that you are an archeologist and you would like to dig up something which many in the psychedelic movement would today rather bury. Is that right?
07:07 Another person who is controversial today is Terence McKenna. How do you see his legacy?
09:30 When I was a teen, I read a lot of Carlos Castaneda, and I was pretty disappointed when I learned that his book was fiction. How do you see his legacy?
11:40 Do you think one day we will celebrate these elders in the West the same way as indigenous people celebrate their own elders?
13:53 Can we say that what you do is, in a certain way, pushing the psychedelic movement to do its shadow work?
14:48 Do you think we will lose something important if psychedelics are legalized?
16:25 It seems many people in the psychedelic movement are sharing your concerns because as I see, some of the criticism is coming from within the movement and not outside of it.
19:37 As far as I remember, it was Terence McKenna who said that, after you received the message, hang up the phone.
20:34 Your new book is about LSD blotter art. What do they reveal about LSD culture?

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