Psychopolitica

Nov 02 2021 5 ep. 68 mins 369
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Russian psychedelic artist/writer Nikita Petrov and American science journalist John Horgan talk about weird ideas, drugs, politics, science, philosophy, and mysticism.

  Society & Culture  Religion & Spirituality  Science
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Death with John Horgan

Nov 02 2021 64 mins  
A recent injury put the topic of death on John Horgan's mind. Here we're talking about it through the lens of Russian philosophy, quantum mechanics, information theory, psychedelic experiences, and simply being somebody who will eventually die.

Psychedelic Economics with Glenn Loury

Aug 18 2021 67 mins  
I'm talking to economist, orator, and anti-woke crusader Glenn Loury about my latest DMT trip and how its insights map onto our socio-political realities.

The Footsteps of Our Fathers (With John Horgan)

Jul 30 2021 69 mins  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afq-SpY7_o8andt=0s (0:00) Are we the repetition of our fathers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afq-SpY7_o8andt=465s (7:45) John's horror of nirvana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afq-SpY7_o8andt=614s (10:14) Putin owns a float tank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afq-SpY7_o8andt=1158s (19:18) Putin as a collective hallucination https://www.youtube.

DMT and Plato's Cave

Apr 07 2021 70 mins  
John talks about his ayahuasca trip, and Nikita about his experiences with DMT. We entertain different ways of looking at them and trying to integrate them into our daily lives.

Pinker vs the Unabomber, Quantum Physics & DMT

Mar 23 2021 69 mins  
Timestamps for the first third of the episode: 00:33 John’s recent public chat with Steve Pinker 01:42 Pinker’s case for human progress 07:16 Pinker’s hyper-rationality vs NandJ’s mystical approaches 09:53 Psychedelics, the multiverse, and the nature of time 10:54 Nikita’s dream: Time is a name of a comedian who tricked us into linear perception of past, present and futur