how mystical experiences might just be brain errors

Corrupt adults from Ikebukuro

We open on the horror of real-time memory loops—one man perpetually regaining consciousness every 8 minutes—and wonder if he's adapted to that stuttered existence or just endlessly confused. From there, it’s straight into the case of Phineas Gage, the 19th-century railworker whose brain injury turned him into an irritable meme, and a modern professor whose trauma unlocked sudden artistic genius.

We drift through stories of depersonalization after brain trauma, mystical visions triggered by head injuries, and ask if some of our most profound spiritual revelations are really just scrambled neural signals. Gary Busey’s accident, psychedelic decoherence, and the illusion of the self all get unpacked.

Then we head down the jungle path—how long have humans really been using psychedelics? Spoiler: not as long as everyone thinks. We challenge the “ancient shamanic wisdom” trope and look at how most traditional societies are actually highly conservative in usage, with rituals mostly confined to a priestly class, not everyday psychonauts.

We explore the disintegration vs. reinforcement of culture through psychedelics—how modern use is about breaking down norms while traditional use is about enforcing them. Add in a detour through Sitchin’s Sumerian alien fanfiction and the modern thirst for sci-fi-as-reality, and we end up contemplating whether people just want an apocalypse to escape wage labor.

We cover the tragedy of Travis the chimp, the absurdity of dolphin sex myths, horses that solve math by reading body cues, and the irony of animal criminality. Do animals even know when they’re being punished? Are we just drugging tigers into submission for zoo selfies?

Freud and Einstein’s hilariously naive exchange on world peace gets dissected, and we end by debating whether human instincts are decaying fast enough to save us—or if we’re still just bloodthirsty primates with apps.

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