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Marjorie Woollacott is a neuroscientist who spent three decades as a hard materialist and co-wrote the textbook used to train physiotherapists worldwide. After a meditation experience her own field said was impossible, she hid it from her colleagues for over 25 years before concluding the brain does not produce consciousness — it filters it.
Expect to learn why a career materialist neuroscientist hid her own paranormal experience for 25 years, the prospective hospital studies that corroborate what patients report while clinically dead, how a comatose man with zero brain activity accurately described a nurse hiding his dentures, what terminal lucidity is and why dying Alzheimer's patients regain full clarity minutes before death, the ongoing lab research into non-speaking autistic children who appear to communicate telepathically, why Christof Koch said the data would turn his world upside down, how Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism compares to Woollacott's own theory of consciousness, and much more…
Timestamps
0:00:00 Trailer
0:02:46 Where Her Story Really Begins
0:05:05 The Materialist Neuroscientist She Used To Be
0:06:15 The Meditation Retreat That Broke Her Skepticism
0:14:24 What Actually Caused Her Awakening
0:22:59 How Rigorous Is Near-Death Experience Research, Really
0:24:19 The Prospective Studies Skeptics Ignore
0:25:06 The Coma Patient Who Knew Where His Dentures Were
0:35:48 Bernardo Kastrup's Analytic Idealism Explained
0:43:19 Is Terminal Lucidity Just Wishful Interpretation?
0:46:09 The Three-Year-Old's Last Request Before Dying
0:53:07 Can Consciousness Move Physical Objects?
0:58:20 Why Jung And A Nobel Physicist Believed In Idealism
1:02:59 The Telepathy Tapes, Explained
1:19:40 The Autism Vulnerability Problem With This Research
1:21:21 The 5% Above Chance Telepathy Effect
1:35:13 Designing an Experiment Skeptics Can't Dismiss...
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GS Episodes Mentioned
Christof Koch — The Psychedelic Trip that Convinced Christof Koch Consciousness is Fundamental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlV-b2bvaE
Guest Links
Website: https://marjoriewoollacott.com/
University of Oregon Faculty Page: https://ion.uoregon.edu/about/person-page/459
Book – Infinite Awareness: https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Awareness-Awakening-Scientific-Mind/dp/144225033X
Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences Bio: https://www.aapsglobal.com/marjorie-woollacott/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjorie-Woollacott

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Rick Doblin is the founder of MAPS and the man who spent 50 years dragging the world's most demonized drug into the doctor's office. He taxed legal ecstasy dealers to fund the first MDMA toxicity studies, sued the DEA with the profits, and got a Harvard PhD in public policy to beat the system from inside — then ran the only completed Phase 3 trials in history showing that two-thirds of severe PTSD patients no longer had the diagnosis after MDMA-assisted therapy.
Expect to learn how he taxed ecstasy dealers to sue the DEA, why MDMA was a couples-therapy drug before it was a party drug, the real reason Nixon criminalized psychedelics in 1970, why 88% of severe PTSD patients responded to MDMA therapy while half dropped out of standard VA treatment, why you can't get addicted to MDMA the way you can to cocaine, why you'll do more jail time for MDMA than for the same weight of cocaine, his plan for "net zero trauma by 2070," and much more…
Timestamps
0:00:00 Trailer
0:03:03 Winning the Generational Lottery After the Holocaust
0:05:27 Dropping Out of College to Study LSD
0:08:15 The Forgotten Golden Era of Psychedelic Research
0:09:33 When the CIA Weaponized LSD for Mind Control
0:13:10 Half a Pound of Mescaline and Ten Years to Recover
0:15:09 The Day a Stranger Said "There's This Drug Called Adam"
0:15:56 MDMA Was a Therapy Drug Before It Was Ecstasy
0:18:39 Sasha Shulgin, the Man Who Invented 200 Psychedelics
0:24:12 How Dealers Tweaked Molecules to Stay Legal
0:27:21 Why Nixon Really Criminalized the Hippies
0:30:04 Going to War With the DEA — and Winning
0:33:56 Founding MAPS and $200 Million Later
0:39:09 Taxing the Ecstasy Dealers to Fund the Lawsuit
0:41:33 The First MDMA Safety Study, Run on a Beach
0:42:43 The 1992 Moment That Reopened Psychedelic Science
0:44:31 The First PTSD Study, Shut Down for Politics
0:48:08 Cannabis Is Palliative, Psychedelics Are Curative
0:50:08 The Veteran Suicide Epidemic Nobody Will Fund
0:53:33 Why MAPS Bet Everything on MDMA
0:58:35 The Effect Sizes That Should Have Changed Everything
1:01:01 Why Half of Veterans Quit Standard PTSD Therapy
1:02:13 Why the Data Alone Was Never Going to Win
1:04:54 The Absurd Reason the FDA Cited: "Euphoria"
1:06:34 Why You Can't Get Hooked on MDMA
1:07:26 More Jail for MDMA Than for Cocaine
1:08:36 Net Zero Trauma by 2070
1:10:47 MDMA for Couples, and Bringing It to the World...
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Guest Links
Rick Doblin — MAPS: https://maps.org/people/rick-doblin/
Rick Doblin on X: https://x.com/RickDoblin
MAPS: https://maps.org

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Manoj Doss is a cognitive neuroscientist and one of the only people studying what psychedelics actually do to memory — trained inside the field's most prestigious lab at Johns Hopkins, he's now its most rigorous internal sceptic. His claim is heretical: the profound sense of revelation you get on a trip may be a memory glitch — a familiarity signal firing without the detail that would normally justify it, so the trip feels like downloading the truth while your brain quietly degrades what it's actually recording.
Expect to learn why the profound insights you get on psychedelics might be a memory glitch, why the entire default mode network story "needs to go to hell", what a 250-subject mega-analysis revealed that small studies missed, why salvia melts you into the couch while DMT builds whole worlds, whether DMT entities and mantises are real contact or just a brain built to see faces, why blocking a single receptor proves psychedelics aren't "keys to reality", the flaw Doss says sinks the entropic brain and REBUS, how you'd ever tell a true revelation from a beautiful lie, and much more…
Timestamps
0:00:00 Trailer
0:02:24 The One Thing Psychedelic Science Ignores: Memory
0:05:38 Why Your Worst Beliefs Feel Like Hard Facts
0:07:38 The "Sense of Knowing" That Fools Everyone
0:09:00 How Psychedelics Rewire What You Remember
0:16:11 Why Yoga Feels Better on Psilocybin
0:20:27 "The Default Mode Network Story Needs to Go to Hell"
0:27:26 How Neuroscience Invents Stories From Noise
0:35:42 Why Psychedelic Studies Are Too Small to Trust
0:40:31 Salvia: Becoming a Sentient Piece of Corn
0:44:13 The Kappa-Opioid Door Into Another Reality
0:48:00 Why Salvia Is Heaven and Ibogaine Is Hell
0:53:03 Does the Brain Have Two Reality Generators?
0:59:24 Has 20 Years of Psychedelics Taught Us Anything?1:05:18 Are DMT Entities Real? The Mantis Problem
1:13:28 Why You See Machine Elves (But His Mum Wouldn't)
1:24:29 Tearing REBUS and the Entropic Brain Apart
1:36:21 "Do Stuff in the Scanner, Stuff Happens in the Brain"
1:44:25 The Debate Robin Was Warned Not to Do...
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GS Episodes Mentioned
Karl Friston — Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-IZOFs4qmY
Robin Carhart-Harris — No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-GkE4YtLRk
Michael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyM
Christof Koch — The Psychedelic Trip that Convinced Christof Koch Consciousness is Fundamental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlV-b2bvaE
David Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5o
Guest Links
Manoj Doss — Dell Medical School: https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/manoj-dossX (Twitter): https://x.com/manojdossGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KFo44R0AAAAJORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2939-2522

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Professor David Nutt is a neuro­psychopharmacologist, former UK chief drug adviser, and author of Drugs Without the Hot Air, Drink?, Cannabis, and Psychedelics. After two rounds that sparked an overwhelming response, round three goes fringe — ibogaine, salvia, mescaline, peyote, GHB, xylazine, the nitazines, and the Amanita muscaria "Santa Claus" mushroom — ranking each on Nutt's evidence-based harm scale.
Timestamps:
2:56 Ibogaine
7:21 Salvia
18:02 Mescaline & Peyote
23:59 San Pedro Cactus
28:55 GHB40:59 Kratom & 7-Hydroxy
46:05 Xylazine ("Tranq")
51:34 Nitazines
54:53 Amanita Muscaria
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David Nichols is the chemist who made the molecules behind the entire psychedelic renaissance; Bryan Roth is the pharmacologist who cracked how those drugs actually work inside the brain. Together they reveal how little we still understand about the compounds now entering mainstream medicine — and how the same technology could, in Roth's own words, build a literal zombie apocalypse.
Expect to learn why the word "psychedelic" could once kill a research grant, how Nichols hand-made the MDMA, DMT and psilocybin behind the field's most famous trials, what profiling 41 psychedelics against 318 receptors actually revealed, why we still don't know what half of those receptors even do, whether the trip itself is the medicine or a side effect that can be engineered away, why a twitching mouse is the most reliable predictor of a human trip, how Roth's "remote control for neurons" could rewrite memory, pain and aggression, and much more…
Timestamps
0:00:00 Trailer
3:22 Two Godfathers of Psychedelics, Together
4:03 The Man Who Made the Molecules by Hand
7:34 How Roth Fell Into Serotonin by Accident
16:46 When "Psychedelic" Was a Forbidden Word
20:18 318 Receptors, 41 Psychedelics: The Big Paper
31:18 Nobody Knows What Half These Receptors Do
35:46 How Nixon's Drug War Killed the Science
46:06 The LSD in the Famous Structure Was Dave's
55:52 1.4 Kilos of MDMA for $4,000
57:29 The Psilocybin That Stunned Johns Hopkins
1:00:19 The Real-Life Walter White
1:01:20 Where Psychedelic Medicine Goes Next
1:07:13 "It's Just GQ": How Psychedelics Actually Work
1:11:35 The Hidden Proteins Behind Mental Illness
1:20:03 Is the Trip Itself the Medicine?
1:34:33 Why a Twitching Mouse Predicts a Trip
1:38:14 Your Personalised Psychedelic, Designed by AI
1:45:51 The Tech to Build a Zombie Apocalypse
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GS Episodes Mentioned
David Nichols — Meet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umTgXsW1lQ
Bryan Roth — Meet The World's Greatest Psychedelic Receptor Scientist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEmmmMma8QsGuest Links
Bryan Roth — UNC Pharmacology: https://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/directory/bryan-roth-md-phd/Roth Lab & NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program: https://pdspdb.unc.edu/rothlab/
David Nichols — Heffter Research Institute: https://www.heffter.org
The 318-receptor psychedelics paper (Neuron, 2025): https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(25)00470-2