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Compared with Rick Doblin, Bob Jesse is a monk.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
After experimenting with LSD as an undergraduate, and later with MDMA, Doblin decided his calling in life was to become a psychedelic therapist.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Below the Line • Paul Austin on Microdosing and the Future of Psychedelics
Doblin believes fervently in the power of psychedelics to improve humankind
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Hubbard believed it was unethical to profit from LSD, which led to tensions between him and some of the institutions he worked with, because they were charging patients upwards of five hundred dollars for an LSD session. For Hubbard, psychedelic therapy was a form of philanthropy, and he drained his fortune advancing the cause.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Some of the memorabilia commemorates the time early in his career when Doblin decided the best way to end sectarian strife would be to mail a group of the world’s spiritual leaders tablets of MDMA, a drug famous for its ability to break down barriers between people and kindle empathy. Around the same time, he arranged to have a thousand doses of MD
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