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OCCULTIST'S PHARMACY · Cosmic Peach

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  Speaker 1: Baby, I'm a gangsta too, and it takes me to
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  Speaker 1: tango You don't wanna mess with me, mess with me Baby,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a gangsta too Oh, snake beach Baby, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: gangsta too Baby, I'm a gangsta too It's a.
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  Speaker 2: Big little warning thing This podcast is designed to take
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  Speaker 2: you outside of your comfort zone and make you question reality.
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  Speaker 1: Listener discretion is advised. Don't fuck with me, fellas!
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  Speaker 3: This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
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  Speaker 1: Ah!
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome back to the show. Feeling a little better,
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  Speaker 2: sounding a little bit better, which is the most important part.
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  Speaker 2: And I got a hell of a show for you today.
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  Speaker 2: But first, is it just me or is anyone else
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  Speaker 2: really struggling with the time change this time around? I
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  Speaker 2: know it's coming. And yet I still, so before this year,
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  Speaker 2: when it was the time change, I would be like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you get an extra hour of sleep or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was working like the eight to six
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  Speaker 2: circuit and I would look forward to it. Although you
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  Speaker 2: go to work in the dark and you come home
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  Speaker 2: in the dark and you get the seasonal depression coming
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  Speaker 2: on and that's not good for anybody. But how do
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  Speaker 2: you survive the time change with a baby? He's getting
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  Speaker 2: up at 4.30, 5.30 in the morning, where on the
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  Speaker 2: old time, he would sleep until 7.30. It was great.
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  Speaker 2: On an early day, he'd get up at 6.30, depending,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on what time I put him to bed.
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  Speaker 2: But 4.30, 5.30 in the morning, roll around, and he's
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  Speaker 2: just wide awake. And Who the fuck, by the way, see,
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  Speaker 2: this is how you know that our society is run
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  Speaker 2: by Satanists who only want the worst for us. Who
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  Speaker 2: the fuck is Benjamin Franklin to wake up one day
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  Speaker 2: and say, you know what? It's a new time for
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  Speaker 2: everybody because I said so. It's not six o'clock anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually five o'clock because I'm Benjamin Franklin and And
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  Speaker 2: I suck the queefs out of Freemason taints and b-holes.
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  Speaker 2: And I get to just do this. He looked like
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  Speaker 2: a closeted gay. And if you want to know where
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  Speaker 2: the first places I learned about this Daylight Savings Time thing,
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  Speaker 2: it was in the movie National Treasure Within. nicholas cage
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  Speaker 2: ass and there's this whole setup where they're like oh
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  Speaker 2: no benjamin franklin was the first one to suggest daylight
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  Speaker 2: savings time and that's where i learned that shit from
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  Speaker 2: and you know what who the fuck gets to just
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  Speaker 2: wake up one day and say it's a new time
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  Speaker 2: for everybody because i'm benjamin franklin it's a new time
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna throw off everyone's body clocks we're gonna fuck
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  Speaker 2: everybody's schedule all the way up And I'm Benjamin Franklin.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's
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  Speaker 2: a new time for me. And I suck. That's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: If you want my opinion, it probably went something like that.
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  Speaker 2: But in other news. I took my son to go
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  Speaker 2: grab some lunch today. We got a little chicken tender
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  Speaker 2: platter and split it. And the waitress at this restaurant,
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  Speaker 2: this is one thing I hate about Oregon. The scenery
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  Speaker 2: is great. The trees are starting to all change color.
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  Speaker 2: They're all red and orange and gold and all these
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  Speaker 2: brilliant hues of autumn excellence. And the mountains are majestic.
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  Speaker 2: full of blue-haired, pot-headed, just high as a Georgia pine, weirdos,
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  Speaker 2: just weirdos. And, you know, she kept bothering us the
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  Speaker 2: entire time we were sitting there trying to have lunch.
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  Speaker 2: And she'd come, eyes blazing, just so red and so closed.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know how she was able to see us.
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  Speaker 2: And she's like, I'm going to take this silverware away
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  Speaker 2: from your baby. He's going to cut himself. I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: it's wrapped up in a napkin. No silverware is even
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  Speaker 2: sticking out. And he was just like, as babies do,
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  Speaker 2: just banging it on the table and rolling it around
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. Like I would have let him cut himself.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, she came and she took all the silverware
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  Speaker 2: off the table. Like a fucking somebody who's super high
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  Speaker 2: would do. Just come and. work at a restaurant and
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  Speaker 2: take your customers all their silverwares away just because you
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  Speaker 2: you felt like it and then you know she was
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  Speaker 2: like i don't you know i don't really think you
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  Speaker 2: should box your leftovers because like he's just gonna get
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  Speaker 2: like food everywhere so i'm gonna i and she just
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  Speaker 2: like took my food away as i was in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of boxing up my left anyways My Coke tasted
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  Speaker 2: like cigs. I'll never go back to that place again. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God. And the worst part about it is I
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  Speaker 2: should have known because the restaurant's called the Wild Goose
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. She goosed me. She goosed me.
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  Speaker 2: She was a wild goose. She was a silly goose.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't believe her manager said, Allows her to
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  Speaker 2: just wait tables high as a kite, taking people's silverwares
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  Speaker 2: away and taking their food away when they're in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of box. I'll box it. You're just going to
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  Speaker 2: get food everywhere. And because I.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: And then there was some dessert on display or something.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a little cake that looked like a
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  Speaker 2: graveyard leftover from Halloween or something. And she was just
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  Speaker 2: staring at it for probably 10 minutes, just staring at it. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she's high and she's probably had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of thoughts going on in her head. But eventually she
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  Speaker 2: looked up from the cake and she said, hey, can
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  Speaker 2: he eat chocolate rocks? And I was like, what are
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  Speaker 2: you talking about? And she said, this cake, it's got
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  Speaker 2: chocolate rocks on it. And I said, no, he's got
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  Speaker 2: two teeth. Well, he's got four or five teeth, but no.
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  Speaker 2: He can't eat a chocolate rock. No. And even if
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  Speaker 2: he could eat a chocolate rock, I ain't accepting chocolate
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  Speaker 2: shit from you, Missy. Because who even knows what the
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  Speaker 2: fuck them chocolate rocks are made out of. The cake
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  Speaker 2: look homemade or some shit. One of the assholes made
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  Speaker 2: it at home and brought it in. Probably had cats
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  Speaker 2: and all the gooses, but. That's all besides the point, people.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for being here. Thanks for being born. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for being listeners and supporters of the Cosmic Peach Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Before we begin, if you love what I do, leave
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  Speaker 2: a five-star review. And if you're new, welcome. And if
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  Speaker 2: you're a longtime listener, welcome back. Today, I want to
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  Speaker 2: invite you into the Occult Pharmacy. It's open 24-7 for
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  Speaker 2: all your pharmaceutical needs. And today, kind of a spin-off
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  Speaker 2: of the Apothecary Corner, we're going to be diving into
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  Speaker 2: the occultist's pharmacy. Now, there is, throughout time and history,
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  Speaker 2: going back through ancient civilizations, the notion of pharmakia. And
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  Speaker 2: there's even biblical context to the word pharmakia. The term
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  Speaker 2: appears in the New Testament, such as in Galatians 5.20,
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  Speaker 2: listed among the, quote, works of the flesh, end quote.
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  Speaker 2: It's also seen in Revelation 9.21, 18.23, and 21.8. In
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  Speaker 2: theological interpretation, it is generally translated as sorcery, witchcraft, or
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  Speaker 2: the use of magical potions, hallucinogenics, tied to idolatry and deception. So,
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  Speaker 2: pharmacy in and of itself has a very dark, twisted,
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  Speaker 2: and disturbing past. But, what about... The occultists and what
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  Speaker 2: is the train of thought between sobriety and pharmakia in
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  Speaker 2: ancient times and even as recent as like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Alistair Crowley and shit like that that's the topic that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're going to be discussing today and I hope
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  Speaker 2: you enjoy it you know I've heard and you can
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  Speaker 2: take it or leave it because he's probably a CIA
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  Speaker 2: person An individual named Bishop Larry Gators was the first
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  Speaker 2: one who put me on to the pharmakia. And he
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  Speaker 2: said a lot of stuff about Tylenol, the origins of
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  Speaker 2: the word. The almost in your face, like Advil, if
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  Speaker 2: you split it apart, it's a devil. And just the
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  Speaker 2: weird origins of the pharmakia. So, maybe he's a CIA
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  Speaker 2: guy and whatever, they put people like him out there.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 2: I had never really thought about in the caduceus that
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  Speaker 2: all medical professionals wear the snakes swirling around the staff.
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  Speaker 2: It's all very occulted. But hard drugs are also involved
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  Speaker 2: in some of these occult practices, as we know. Programmed
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  Speaker 2: to killage stuff. We got LSD and all types of
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  Speaker 2: trying to split people's minds and open doorways and all
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  Speaker 2: of this. But what does it actually take to map
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  Speaker 2: the absolute limits of the human mind? For thousands of years,
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  Speaker 2: powerful religious and philosophical traditions issued the same warning, which
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  Speaker 2: is keep your mind sober. If you wanted revelation, you
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  Speaker 2: had to earn it through discipline. Trying to force the
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  Speaker 2: door open means could cost you total and absolute control
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  Speaker 2: of your own mind. The Bible lays it out as
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  Speaker 2: a stark, terrifying warning in 1 Peter 5, verse 8.
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  Speaker 2: Be of sober mind and vigilant, because your adversary, the devil,
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  Speaker 2: prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
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  Speaker 2: But this... sober-minded, sober-living stuff wasn't just a Christian idea.
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  Speaker 2: For a lot of historical heavyweights, brutal, sober discipline was
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  Speaker 2: the only way to attain true power. The ancient Greek
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  Speaker 2: philosopher Pythagoras didn't use psychedelics or any type of drugs
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  Speaker 2: or drug-induced states or anything like that. He ran a
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  Speaker 2: strict cult so obsessed with biological purity, he famously banned
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  Speaker 2: his followers from eating fucking beans. Beans! Like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the thing is. Maybe, you know, if your
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  Speaker 2: b-hole's all stenched out, you can't get to the purity level.
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  Speaker 2: So you can't even, you don't need that type of
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  Speaker 2: fiber in your life. And listen, I used to in
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  Speaker 2: high school, this was during like the scene era. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how else to describe it. Emo kids, the
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  Speaker 2: ones that wore cat ears. What I remember it as
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  Speaker 2: because I lived through it. And participated in some of
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  Speaker 2: this non-sensory. They had this coon stripes thing that they
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  Speaker 2: would do with their hair. Like they blacked their hair out.
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  Speaker 2: It would be kind of like a mullet on the
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  Speaker 2: top a little bit. With the long down the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: With these blue stripes coming. Anyways. These assholes. I did
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  Speaker 2: it too. Black eyeliner all the way around. I listened
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  Speaker 2: to Sleeping With Sirens. Memphis Mayfire. I thought I was
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  Speaker 2: the shit. But there was this whole thing about being
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  Speaker 2: straight edge, straight edge and no drinking, no smoking weed, no,
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  Speaker 2: like literally nothing. And there's I'm straight edge. And I
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  Speaker 2: was like, well, you also cut yourself. So if healthiness
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  Speaker 2: is what you're going for, I think we're a long
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  Speaker 2: cry from being the pinnacle of health, but. You know, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: They were doing bloodletting stuff. It was a weird time
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  Speaker 2: to be alive. But they were straight edge. And that's
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  Speaker 2: really cool. I get it now. Because I'm an adult.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm a parent. And it's easy to be straight
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  Speaker 2: edge when you have a one-year-old. I didn't drink the
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  Speaker 2: entire time I was pregnant, obviously. And then after he
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  Speaker 2: was born, sure, there was nights I would have loved
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  Speaker 2: to get shit-faced on a couple bottles of wine and
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  Speaker 2: pass out. But my kid... 14 months old going on,
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  Speaker 2: still doesn't sleep through the night. And how do you
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  Speaker 2: get shitty wasted on wine? You get white girl wine
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  Speaker 2: wasted and have to wake up every two to three
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  Speaker 2: hours all through the night. It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to be of clear mind to obviously
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  Speaker 2: parent my son. So for the last over two years,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had a drop of alcohol. I don't do
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  Speaker 2: any type of hard drugs whatsoever. I've popped an Advil
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  Speaker 2: here or there for the occasional migraine. You know, a
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  Speaker 2: little Claritin D. But I get it. And I can't
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  Speaker 2: tell you how wonderful I feel, actually. I used to
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  Speaker 2: have just this... hard, pooched out stomach and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the rest of my body was so slim except I
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  Speaker 2: had this pooched out, hard, rock hard abdomen just swollen and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, my face was broke out. I just didn't
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  Speaker 2: feel good a lot of the times and You know,
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  Speaker 2: I get it about like the spirits and all that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so I have to say I get the
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  Speaker 2: straight edge thing now that I'm an adult and a
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  Speaker 2: parent and I'm kind of living it, not out of
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  Speaker 2: a choice. Like I sat down and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be straight edge. It just has happened
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  Speaker 2: and I'm okay with it. But so this was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Pythagoras and going back in time, but thousands
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  Speaker 2: of years later after Pythagoras asks, Anton LaVey says, the
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  Speaker 2: infamous founder of the Church of Satan, laid down a
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  Speaker 2: surprisingly similar law. Despite his dark reputation, LaVey strictly banned
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  Speaker 2: illegal drugs in his religion. His philosophy was about indulging
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  Speaker 2: the flesh naturally and maintaining total, ruthless control of the ego.
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  Speaker 2: He viewed narcotics as a pathetic escape, Explicitly stating that
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  Speaker 2: drugs are a weakness that rob a magician of their
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  Speaker 2: ultimate weapon, which is your own willpower. They all understood
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  Speaker 2: the exact same danger. If you open the door, something
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  Speaker 2: will walk through, and you don't have control over what
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  Speaker 2: or who is going to walk through. But, see, on
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  Speaker 2: the opposite end of the spectrum, there was a very
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  Speaker 2: different breed of, I don't know, occultist, madman thing going on.
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  Speaker 2: And throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, some of
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  Speaker 2: history's most brilliant and radical thinkers decided they weren't going
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  Speaker 2: to wait for a natural flash of enlightenment. They wanted
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  Speaker 2: to pick the lock, per se.
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  Speaker 1: While.
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  Speaker 2: The purists relied on sobriety. These lone pioneers we're about
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  Speaker 2: to discuss, who are founding fathers of modern psychology, Rosicrucian
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  Speaker 2: mystic practices, a Nobel Prize-winning poet, and, of course, the
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  Speaker 2: most infamous occultist in history. They all took this left-hand path.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't use heavy narcotics to just escape reality. They
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  Speaker 2: used them as a biological skeleton key to hack their
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  Speaker 2: own nervous system and force open the doors of creativity, sure,
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  Speaker 2: but they wanted to gaze directly into the abyss and
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  Speaker 2: the abyss gazed directly back at them. Through their work
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  Speaker 2: and their chemical experiments, these men we're about to discuss
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  Speaker 2: fundamentally shaped how the modern world thinks about art, psychology, and,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the occult. But this is the untold story
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  Speaker 2: and the terrifying price they all paid for a dose
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  Speaker 2: of the unearned wisdom. and opening the door and letting
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  Speaker 2: something pretty fucking nasty come on in. And the first
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  Speaker 2: asshole douchebag on the list is none other than Sigmund
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  Speaker 2: Freud and his so-called cocaine miracle. Now, before he would
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  Speaker 2: be known as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud was
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  Speaker 2: a desperate asshole, broke and young, just a struggling doctor
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  Speaker 2: in Vienna who needed a medical breakthrough to make his name.
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  Speaker 2: In 1884, he thought he found it in a newly
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  Speaker 2: isolated South American alkaloid, which we all know very well
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  Speaker 2: as cocaine. Freud didn't just use cocaine occasionally. He was
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  Speaker 2: a fanatical evangelist of cocaine. He used it fucking daily,
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  Speaker 2: multiple times a day to feel an exhausting, obsessive riding pace,
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  Speaker 2: as he claimed. He wasn't just getting high. He was
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  Speaker 2: using it as a way to, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: guess like level up. He was fiercely mapping the foundations
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  Speaker 2: of modern psychology. At least some people think that's what
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  Speaker 2: he was doing. But Freud was attempting to understand the
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  Speaker 2: deep neurological architecture of the brain, and he believed he
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  Speaker 2: had found a harmless wonder drug that cured depression and indigestion.
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  Speaker 2: In his private letters, Freud's enthusiasm takes on a weird
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  Speaker 2: fucking swagger. He says cocaine seemed to strip away his
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  Speaker 2: fatigue and replace it with extraordinary confidence. The young doctor
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just praising his discovery, he was boasting about the
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  Speaker 2: man it made him feel like. In a letter to
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  Speaker 2: his fiancée, Martha Bernays, which we should do a little
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  Speaker 2: digging on this woman Bernays. I feel like that's one
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  Speaker 2: of those old elite weird baby eating families. But anyways,
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  Speaker 2: he wrote, It's needless to say that Freud was totally
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  Speaker 2: and completely freaked out on this shit, okay? He bragged
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  Speaker 2: that the drug lifted him to the heights of the gods.
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  Speaker 2: But Freud was about to meet the roaring lion there,
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  Speaker 2: as the Bible would say. This whole situation broke out
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  Speaker 2: where Freud had this friend, his name was Ernest von
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  Speaker 2: Fletchel Marco Polo something, who cares, he was probably a douchebag.
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  Speaker 2: And Ernst was not just some random patient of Freud's
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  Speaker 2: and also his friend, but He was said to be
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  Speaker 2: a brilliant, highly respected physician and physiologist who made groundbreaking
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  Speaker 2: discoveries in how the nervous system conducts electrical impulses. But
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  Speaker 2: he had some kind of a weird accident and he
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  Speaker 2: was dissecting something and he cut himself and he severed
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  Speaker 2: his fucking thumb all the way, almost half off. And
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  Speaker 2: he became pretty much crippled by nerve pain and he
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  Speaker 2: developed a morphine addiction and Freud was like, Bingo! I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna save him because I'm a brilliant god-like man with
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  Speaker 2: cocaine in his body. So, believing cocaine was a non-addictive cure,
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  Speaker 2: he prescribed massive, continuous doses of cocaine to Ernst. And
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  Speaker 2: instead of being cured, Ernst, or Ernest, or however you
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  Speaker 2: say it, he descended into a horrific state of cocaine-induced psychosis.
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  Speaker 2: And he spent the last bit of his night screaming
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  Speaker 2: in terror that thousands of white snakes were crawling under
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  Speaker 2: his skin. And Freud had to sit by and watch
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  Speaker 2: his brilliant medical-minded friend deteriorate and die in sheer agony. Thanks, Freud.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad we based so much medical advice off of you.
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  Speaker 2: but the lock had been picked. He opened the door,
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  Speaker 2: but a monster had walked through it. Freud had promised
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  Speaker 2: his friend a way out of addiction, and instead he
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  Speaker 2: helped lead him straight to death. Before he became famous
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  Speaker 2: for exploring the unconscious, he had already confronted something his
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  Speaker 2: own confidence had failed to reveal, which is the danger
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  Speaker 2: of the drug he believed could save everyone. But again,
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  Speaker 2: he's just the best. If you ask anybody, he's the
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  Speaker 2: most brilliant psychologist ever. He's a, he's a psycho is
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  Speaker 2: what he is. And if anybody's unfamiliar with this douchebag,
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  Speaker 2: you should really look into him. But while Freud was
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  Speaker 2: attempting to pick the lock medically, Others were doing it spiritually.
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  Speaker 2: And in 1874, a free black man living in America
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  Speaker 2: named Pascal Beverly Randolph published a book called Euless, or
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  Speaker 2: something to that effect. And to just call Randolph an
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  Speaker 2: occultist would be a massive understatement. This dude was an
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  Speaker 2: absolute titan. of his era. Randolph was an active abolitionist
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  Speaker 2: who recruited black soldiers for the Union Army during the
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  Speaker 2: Civil War. He was a self-taught medical doctor, a prolific author,
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  Speaker 2: and even counted Abraham Lincoln among his close personal friends.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: And Abraham Lincoln was into some weird shit too, by
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: the way, so... Let me just make that connection for ya.
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  Speaker 2: He was also a world-traveling sailor who ventured through Europe, Africa,
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  Speaker 2: and the Middle East, synthesizing global mysticism into a uniquely
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  Speaker 2: American esoteric system. He founded the Fratinas Rose Crucis, the
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  Speaker 2: oldest Rosicrucian order in the United States, a black man.
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  Speaker 2: And he essentially invented the Western system of sex magic
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  Speaker 2: that would be used by cultists for the next century.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: This is where the boule comes in, people. This is exactly,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: that was another thing I might have learned from Bishop
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Larry Gators, I don't know. But anyways, he operated like
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: a highly educated psychedelic guru a full hundred years before
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the co-opted 1960s counterculture movement even happened. This was the
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Laurel Canyon training wheels. But Randolph viewed the human nervous
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  Speaker 2: system as the biological hardware of the soul. He imported
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  Speaker 2: massive quantities of hashish into pre-Civil War America, teaching his
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  Speaker 2: initiates to use the drug, which he called ganja, alongside
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  Speaker 2: magical mirrors and scrying practices to induce deep clairvoyant trance states.
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  Speaker 2: But despite his genius, Randolph said, This strangely powerful drug
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  Speaker 2: is at one a curse and a blessing of mankind.
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  Speaker 2: End quote. It allowed him to shatter the boundary of
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  Speaker 2: the physical world, writing, and I quote, The communication between
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  Speaker 2: the soul world and the earth is far more difficult
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  Speaker 2: and rare than I had believed. Many things attributed to
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  Speaker 2: an origin purely mundane are really the work of intelligent
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  Speaker 2: beings beyond the misty veil, end quote. So, We just
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  Speaker 2: talked about this book, The Smoky God, The Smoky Son,
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  Speaker 2: and this guy who was one of the granddaddies of Rosicrucianism,
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  Speaker 2: or the granddaddy of American Rosicrucianism, is talking about the
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: same thing, Misty, Smoky Veil, whatever. But he lost his
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  Speaker 2: damn mind eventually doing too much ganjas. And he just
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: ended up being a kook, a crazy, a crackpot. Lost
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: his mind looking into the abyss. He fell the fuck
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: into it, if you know what I'm saying. That exact
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: same desire to pierce this misty veil captivated the towering
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: giant of Irish literature as well. This asshole's name was
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: William Butler Yeats. Today, Yeats is universally remembered as a
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Nobel Prize-winning poet. He spearheaded the Irish literary revival, founded
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  Speaker 2: the Abbey Theatre, and essentially wrote the foundational myths of
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  Speaker 2: modern Ireland. His brilliance, they say, is unquestionable. But behind
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: closed doors... Yeats lived a deeply secretive, radical lifestyle. He
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: was a fucking high-ranking, deeply entrenched magician, eventually becoming what's
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: known as the imperator or leader of the Isis-Urena temple
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In the 1890s,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Yeats experimented with hashish or ganja, whatever, in Paris. And
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: then he moved on to bigger and better things and
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: started doing a little too much peyote. But here was
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: a poet already immersed in magical symbols, now exploring substances
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  Speaker 2: that could make perception itself behave strangely. What could a
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  Speaker 2: vision reveal that ordinary sight could not? Yeats' search for
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: visions extended far beyond drugs. Rituals, symbols, and dreams were
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  Speaker 2: all part of his attempt to reach beyond ordinary thought.
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  Speaker 2: In his writings, Amica, Salencia, Lunae, Kunamatate, he gave that
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  Speaker 2: spiritual hunger an unforgettable expression, and I quote, I shall
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  Speaker 2: find the dark, grow luminous, the void fruitful, When I
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: understand that I have nothing, end quote. It's like that song,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I think John Lennon wrote it or George Harrison, one
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: of those assholes, after they did the Hare Krishna over
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  Speaker 2: in India and they came back. And it was like,
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  Speaker 2: without looking out of my door. I don't know. I'll
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: put it in here somewhere. Anyways, it's some White Album
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: nonsense bullshit crap. But this was the world Yeats pursued.
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  Speaker 2: Darkness becoming luminous. Emptiness becoming fertile. Drugs became a more
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: integral part of that wider search. But eventually he ended
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: up losing his damn mind too and all the you know,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: substance abuse, and he was just a regular old run-of-the-mill
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: drug addict. But we can't end our little countdown here
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: without briefly touching on the man, the devil himself. Alistair Crowley. Now,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: we all know about this asshole, right? British occultist Alistair Crowley. Now,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: he used drugs kind of as an act of war
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  Speaker 2: against his own consciousness, in a way. And anybody who
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  Speaker 2: studies his work says that his intellect was staggering. And
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: he was very intelligent. He was a Cambridge-educated poet, a
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: world-class mountaineer. And he took part in the first attempt
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  Speaker 2: on K2, and he was a master chess player and
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: a brilliant synthesizer. of Eastern yoga and Western ceremonial magic. And,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: you know, they talk about him writing massive encyclopedic volumes
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  Speaker 2: on human consciousness, but he also raped babies, ate babies,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: murdered people, did blood sacrifices, and, you know, dot, dot, dot,
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  Speaker 2: the list goes on. So I really am not here
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  Speaker 2: to talk about what a genius he was, okay? But
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: in Crowley's philosophy... The rational logical intellect was the ultimate
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: prison preventing true magical attainment. So he used massive, massive
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  Speaker 2: doses of heroin, mescaline, cocaine, and heroin as an alchemical
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  Speaker 2: sledgehammer to smash it to pieces. Crowley believed his magical
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  Speaker 2: willpower was absolute. and that his genius could master any
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  Speaker 2: chemical without becoming its slave. To prove this, in 1920,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: he established the Abbey of Thalema, a magical commune in Sicily.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: At the Abbey, the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment devolved into
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: a horrific, drug-fueled nightmare full of murder, decapitation, b-hole rape,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: and God only knows what else it did to the babies.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: But anyways, Crowley published a novel which is called A
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Diary of a Drug Fiend, broadcasting to the fucking world
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  Speaker 2: that a true magician could conquer heroin through sheer willpower.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: And ladies and gents, the reality of this fucking thing
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: is quite brutal. Because in 1923, this guy who was
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: trying to suck the queefs out of Crowley's taint, some
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Oxford-educated young dude named Rowell Love, I don't know, whatever,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: he died, he fucking bit the dust after repeatedly drinking
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: heroin-contaminated spring water, there was other substances in it, anyways,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: he OD'd, and the Abbey's promise of spiritual transformation collided
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: with a death that they just couldn't explain away. Uh,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: guess he wasn't a good enough magician, I guess. But anyways,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the scandal turned Crowley's experiments into a public disgrace. And
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Mussolini's government deported Crowley ass and the Abbey fell into ruin.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Crowley's arrogant belief that his mind could conquer heroin, guess what?
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't true. History's most infamous magician spent his final years
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: in a boarding house in England. A frail, isolated, lonely,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: desperately addicted man until the day he died. Heroin junkie.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Real nice. I wish it was worse. He deserved so
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: much worse. Now, when we look back at these four
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: monumental figures, we see a shared dangerous obsession. They refused
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to accept the limits of normal human consciousness that they
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: were bigger, better, one of the gods. These were not
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: idle men. They were known to be titans of medicine, literature,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: and philosophy, but they treated their own nervous systems as
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: experimental laboratories. Yeats pulled masterpieces out of the void, supposedly.
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  Speaker 2: Randolph built an esoteric empire that lasts through the ages.
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  Speaker 2: Freud narrowly escaped the horrific consequences of the chemicals he
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: once praised, and Crowley, well, he tested the absolute limits
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: of human willpower only to be crushed by it. Their
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: stories give that ancient warning a disturbing new resonance. You
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: can use a chemical to pick the lock of your
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: own mind. You might even pull a genius out of
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the void. But you can never be entirely sure if
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: what walks through the door is enlightenment or the roaring lion,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: as the Bible says, looking for someone to devour. So
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: that's what I have for you today, folks. Thanks for
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: taking a journey with me through the occultist's pharmacy. Today
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: we know these pharmakia. substances a little differently. Maybe a
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: pop an Advil, a Tylenol, Sudafed PM, little Dimetap for
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: the kids when they won't go to bed. I haven't
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: done it, but I heard it works. But they all
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: have their roots in something much more sinister connected to sorcery, witchcraft,
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  Speaker 2: magic potions, hallucinogenic, sidolatry, and deception. the roaring lion that's
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: seeking to destroy you. So I'm not saying you need
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: to have a toddler in your life, but it helps
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: when you want to stay sober. Let me know what
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: you think of this episode, and if you enjoyed it,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: go ahead and comment Crowley's Queefs in the comment section.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: That's Crowley's Queefs in the comment section if you enjoyed
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: today's episode. Thanks for hanging with me. Take care of yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: I love each and every one of you, and I
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  Speaker 2: will catch you on the next one.
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  Speaker 3: Without going out of my door, I can know all
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: things on earth. Without looking out of my window, I
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  Speaker 3: can know the.
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  Speaker 2: Ways of heaven.
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  Speaker 3: The Father won't travel.
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  Speaker 2: The less one knows.
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  Speaker 3: The less one really knows Thank you.