c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…earth's history spores have drifted down and become part of things and this is not a radical theory at all. Crick of Crick and Watson holds the same view and believes that probably the galaxy is a biome, the galaxy is a biological unit and we are just…
…and so we are. You know we well it's the 60s and the 50s when LSD hit the streets and then mushrooms came out. Watson found them and brought them to the western world. I mean they were there for centuries, millennia. The role that's going on with all…
…mentioned is a theory, the panspermia theory, which was formulated by sural, phanam, Phurama and Cricken, who was the discoverer with James Watson, Francis Crick of DNA. And they are proposing a much more radical theory than what I put forth, at least in…
…history, spores have drifted down and become part of things. And this is not a radical theory at all. Crick of crick and Watson, holds the same view and believes that probably the galaxy is a biome, the galaxy is a biological unit, and we are just…
…probably a polyhydric alcohol or an isoquinone or something like that. It's not an indole. Yeah, I was curious, and Watson talks about antiens versus hallucinogens, and he's really against the word hallucinogen. Yeah, he's the one who proposed entheogen…
…were disrupting the local ecology. And it was a kind of proprietary approach. You know, this thing belongs to anthropologists, to specialists. Watson was very reticent to assess his own work. Some of you may have seen Bob Forte's interview with him in that…
…the nature of truth and delusion and evidence and feedback and so forth and so on. Well, so suppose then that the Watson objection is sustained, and we all agree that he found this enormous hole. Well, then the disconfirmation of the theory has arrived,…
…botanical park to acclimate, and then most people will ship off for the stars, I imagine. The british science fiction writer Ian Watson has a wonderful book called Chekhov's journey, in which he talks about the Tunguska event. And his theory is that it…