Psychedelics therapeutically are basically used to treat spiritual illnesses on a cultural and individual level, so they are medicines for the soul and for the spirit, and biomedicine is absolutely terrified of them. Because in order to use those in biomedicine, biomedicine has to acknowledge that there is a spiritual aspect to medicine and healing, and the whole mechanistic model of healing goes out the window. In fact, they have to accept enchantment again, because they’ve spent four or five hundred years trying to exorcise that out of science. It creates a conundrum for both sides, which is
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