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Hamilton Morris

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most recent: 2018-09-20
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“I really can't overestimate the value of Pal for understanding these things. It's just a fantastic book. It will tell you almost everything you need to know about psychedelics and drugs in general. And it's a really great love story Yeah, it's a moving experience to read it, so I hope everyone will run out and buy a copy. I think it's $15 or something.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now I'm working with a chemist named Jason Wallach and we are trying to do a process called autoradiography where you take a radio labeled drug and you look at the distribution in the brain and we're looking specifically at a drug that seems to distort the way sound is perceived based on Shulgin's reports and we want to see with the radio labeled drug how it will distribute in a rodent's brain. So we're trying to raise a little bit of money to do that sort of research. It's not all that expensive and it could really have interesting bearing on our understanding of auditory perception.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I self-fund a lot of the scientific research that I do. So if there are any psychedelic philanthropists out there that are interested in funding non-clinical basic science research that's chemistry and pharmacology with no clinical end in sight, but are just interested in understanding the mechanisms of these substances reach out to me because in a chemistry lab, a couple thousand bucks can go a long way and it's always important to remember that without the basic science, the clinical work can't really be done.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And if you want to watch my TV show, Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia, it can be purchased for three dollars an episode on iTunes and Amazon, and it's also free on Hulu and it's on National Geographic and Viceland. And I'm sure you can also torrent it as well.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I have a Twitter at Hamilton Morris and Instagram at Hamilton Morris. I'm starting a website, HamiltonMorris.com, but it's not up yet.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“10 milligrams. I don't take it every day, but it's a tricky one because it does give you a certain intellectual stamina that helps you read and write and think. And I think that with a lot of discipline, you could achieve those same effects without Ritalin, but it's helped me.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you are, yeah. Sweet. And, you know, good old fashioned riddlein on occasion. I say this with a little bit of Reluctance because stimulants are addictive and it's kind of a bad habit to get into, but I would be dishonest if I didn't acknowledge the fact that using low dose ritalin has helped me.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Might be just a basic stimulant effect. Another way might be that they cause you to approach problems from a different perspective. And this is why James Faddaman is very interested in psychedelics in problem solving is because sometimes having a different way is all that it takes, not necessarily a better way, not necessarily a smarter way, simply a different way of looking at something is all it takes to solve that problem because you got locked into a certain way of approaching it. You're only thinking about it one way and just to mix it up to shuffle the deck for a moment and think, well, maybe I could have done this in a completely different way is what it takes.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. So, yeah, so yeah, if when you think of an orange, it's not just an orange, it's the color, it's the smell, it's the taste, it's the sound, it's the texture, and there's all this multi-sensory encoding of the information. Does that allow you to recall the orange in a different way? Or do you have more handles on that memory that allow you to retrieve it more easily? So psychedelics also induce synesthesia. And that was one question that I had is could this synesthesia inducing a fact be harnessed in order to aid retention of information? And I don't have a real answer to that question, but I think that if drugs like 2CB do have any sort of nootropic effect, it may be as a result of that kind of, I mean, there's different ways that maybe encouraging synesthesia would be one way. Another way.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, absolutely. And two CDs really interesting because one thing if you read about people, pneumonists, people with photographic memories, one thing they all seem to have in common is they're all synesthetes. And one thing I've wondered about that synesthesia that they have is, is this multisensory cross-linking of information aiding recall? Because if everyone just recalls.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Pop in a square of nicotine gum and just really try to focus. But New Pept was okay, PRL 853 was okay. Fennyl parase attempt is okay. Typically it's the stimulating ones that are a little bit better, but then the question is, are these nootropics or are they simply stimulants? And are stimulants nootropics? How do we designate these things?”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, how do you define it to begin with? And what are these drugs doing and what is the intended effect? It's a really complicated question. The most basic thing, I think, is memory. That's the thing that most people can agree if they had a better memory, it would be useful. And I do believe that some of these things, you know, often some of the most mundane things like nicotine improve memory and aid focus a little bit. Of all the things that I've tried in the realm of nootropics and it's many, the one that I still use is just nicotine gum. I try to use it less. I sometimes don't use it at all. I told that story about not using it, but I still chew it on occasion because it really helps me read, especially if I'm going plowing through a dense novel or something. I like to go to the library.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a major problem with self assessment in the realm of nootropics just because something makes you feel smarter does not mean that you are smarter. And then there's a larger question of how do we define intelligence? What does it mean to be smart? Is having an improved memory, does that mean that you're smarter? Is being more creative a sign of intelligence? It's typically not included in any kind of objective measure of intelligence.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And could it be that the true smart drugs have all been abandoned because they actually made people feel abysmally stupid”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I always Wonder what would be the manifestation of a true cognitive enhancer? Would it make you feel stupid? Would it make you feel increasingly aware of all the things you don't know? Would you feel intellectually ashamed of yourself?”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's these two psychologists at Cornell, I believe, found this effect that the more competent someone is in a given task, whether it's musical ability or humor, the more likely they are to underrate their ability. And the less competent they are, the more likely they are to overrate their ability.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's such a philosophically interesting question because whenever people say that something made them smarter, I always think of the Dunning Kruger effect. Are you familiar with that? I don't know what that means.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Another thing that I don't understand, but I've read. Yeah. Yeah. So that's it. It's a term mostly derived from the classical methods of extraction from plants. So all these drugs that have basic nitrogen atoms behave in a certain way chemically and can be extracted from plants using an acid-base extraction. And that's how they get this name”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“in the strictest sense an alkaloid is a material isolated from a plant that contains a basic nitrogen atom. So that's an alkaloid. Sometimes the term is extended to include any material.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Answering these basic scientific questions. When it comes to just using them as a source of drugs, you can make five MEODMT from melatonin, and it's so much more efficient and so much cheaper probably as well, that it just seems that without a good reason why even potentially harass a toad. And then on top of that, you have the certainty regarding dose, which is so wonderful to be able to say this is exactly 15 milligrams of 5MEO-DMT freebase as opposed to this is 100 milligrams of toad venom that might contain who knows how much five MEO DMT and however much five MEO NMT or serotonin O sulfate or whatever steroidal lactone that's found, you know, there's a lot of stuff in there and it's rarely looked at objectively or quantified in any way. Of the people that are using it don't really know what they're getting.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really important. You want to have natural reserves of these things that can be studied and can be used as stock for breeding and you risk losing all of that if you're just thinking only in the moment I want it now. Same is true of these toads. I mean, there's a lot of basic scientific questions that haven't been answered about the toads. I would love to see people studying the rate that they regenerate the venom or how they respond to the milking or if they're sensitive to their own venom, which is such a fascinating question because with pufferfish, they've actually evolved a mutation in their sodium ion channel that makes them insensitive to the toxicity of TTX. Is the same true of the five HT onea receptor in the Buffal various toad? Have they also evolved a different type of serotonin receptor that makes them insensitive to their own venom? I mean, those are the sorts of things that I would love to be doing with the”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Potentially losing the opportunity, or they could be useful cultivars, they might be faster growing. There's all sorts of reasons to keep and study plants as opposed to just using them up. Same thing is true of peyote. There's so many different alkaloids, and there's been very little study done in terms of finding faster growing varieties of peyote or finding strains that have a higher masculine content or a higher peoteen content or things like that. If we wanted to make these things available, those would be necessary things to do in the same way that they've been done with cannabis. You don't just grow any cannabis. You grow cannabis that has been bred to have the qualities that you're looking for, typically high THC content, but there's a lot of other things, high THC V or high CBD content. And so, you know, I think that that's”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sustainability, of course, does matter, and synthesis is typically more sustainable. But the other thing is that these plants are genetic reserves that if we're just looking at them as a crop and not appreciating them as something to conserve and study, then we may be losing the opportunity to discover all sorts of new things. I'm sure there is our old ayahuasca vines that contain betacarbilines that have never been found before. And if we're just chopping them down to use them in a brew when you could just as easily use Syrian roux, Peganum Harmala or something like that, you have to wonder whether or not we're”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It needs to be studied. People need to be aware of it. And it's very sad to see the same treatments being used for Parkinson's today that were used thirty, forty years ago. I mean, it's still pretty much take L-DOPA, wait till it stops working, and then we'll switch you on to something else. But there's no treatment available that's actually addressing the root cause of the neurodegeneration. And if this does and patients are being deprived that treatment, it's a tragic thing.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's just the tip of the iceberg with it. I mean, it also seems to synergize with dopamineergic drugs, so it's possible that it increases patient sensitivity to the L-DOPA treatment as well. And on top of that, it seems to have an antidepressant effect, and depression is one of the major symptoms of Parkinson's disease. So I think it could really be helping people with Parkinson's, and there's a sort of underground community of people with Parkinson's that use”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. So one of the most interesting things that I have researched regarding IBAN is its effect on a protein called GDNF. That's glial-derived neurotrophic factor. And this is a protein that is very useful in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. There's been some limited clinical work where they show that it can cause a regrowth of dopaminergic neurons, which is the mechanism of Parkinson's damage to the brain is lost of dopamineergic neurons, so it's directly reversing the toxic effect of Parkinson's. And they found that Ibigane causes a release of this same therapeutic protein.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is a question that hasn't been thoroughly investigated, but my guess is that there are alternative dosing strategies that are safer than taking single high doses, which are referred to as flood doses, and that would be microdosing over longer periods of time or taking lower doses over longer periods of time. And this is especially useful because IBAN is cardiotoxic and has been associated with a number of deaths. So any way to reduce that toxicity is a boon to the therapeutic use of the substance.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have thrown up their hands and said, all right, the best we can do is agonist replacement therapy. We'll give them methadone. We'll give them buprenorphine and Just giving them another opioid that's regulated, and that's the best treatment we have when it comes to actually getting people off of it. There are very, really, there's nothing in terms of pharmacotherapy. clinics that specialize in helping people wean off of it but we don't have drugs that are designed to reduce the addictiveness of the opioid itself. So it seems to have that effect for a lot of people unfortunately hasn't been studied as well as I would hope because it's a Schedule I drug in the United States which is interfered with scientific research but what's really amazing about Ibigane is even though it's famous for its treatment of opioid addiction is that I think it has a general anti-addictive anti-compulsive effect it also works for alcohol.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, so I began is an alkaloid that is found in the roots of a central West African plant called Tabernanthi Boga. And it's a pretty amazing molecule. It's very, very difficult to synthesize all of the ibagane that's used commercially has to be extracted from plants. It's very complicated structurally and pharmacologically it is one of the most complicated drugs I've ever read about. But the reason that people are interested in Ibegan is there was a guy named Howard Lotsu who was addicted to heroin. He tried ibane sort of on a whim and then afterwards lost his desire to use heroin and patented it as an anti addictive intervention for treatment of heroin addiction. It's a pretty amazing thing. I mean, one of the most difficult pharmacological tasks is getting people off of opioids to the point that, to some extent, people”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“estimation of its height, but he really also was by all accounts a very hard worker and really was out there talking to people. He's a prolific writer and made a lot of really amazing discoveries.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People regard him with suspicion because he's First of all, he's a great storyteller, which makes maybe people maybe regard him with suspicion for that reason as well, because he's not dry and serious enough. But, you know, he discovered a fungus called Dictianema Huarani that contains, it's a sort of a lichen that contains psilocybin crazy. No one else has ever found the species. He just happened to find it. No one else has ever found it. Amazing. He also claims to have found the tallest San Pedro cactus ever observed. It was, I think, 100 feet tall. That one strikes me as unbelievable, but I've examined the specimen at the Harvard orbarium myself and read his descriptions of it. I think maybe he didn't bring a tape measure with him and made a little bit of a general.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really amazing idea. He got a huge amount of criticism for it at the time of its publication and was even accused of fraud or contaminating his samples with TTX to prove his hypothesis. It was very, very controversial at the time. But it's such an interesting idea and it hadn't been adequately tested. I wanted to go back and did in 2009 to collect samples just to see if anyone else could find further evidence for what he said because that's one thing that people do all the time is endlessly debate is it real? Is it not real? Instead of just going out and trying to see for yourself and collect new samples and do additional analysis and figure it out. But he's had a lot of luck. I'll tell you that. He's one of these guys where the number of crazy things that he collected in his career borders on being suspicious and I understand why.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wade Davis was a student of Richard Evans Shaltis at Harvard. He was an ethnobotanist who came to prominence in the eighties after writing a book called The Serpent and the Rainbow. Later made into a movie. Later made into a movie by Wes Craven. And proposing this pretty... Outrageous idea that the idea of zombies in Haiti was not only real in the sense that there really was zombification. This wasn't some kind of folk legend, but that there was an intricate pharmacological explanation for how these zombies were created that involved scopolamine and the toxin from pufferfish TTX. So”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, yeah, yeah. So that's a very practical thing is don't chew nicotine gum to make your writing better because it's already inside you and you just can create it yourself. And I've had so many of those sorts of low level practical experiences. And I really like that because it's not about time. Like what can I tell you about how my sense of time was deconstructed? I could go on and on about it and you wouldn't understand and I wouldn't understand. And it exists outside of the realm of any sort of comfortable comprehension, at least for me. Whereas thoughts about addiction, about how you construct your life, about how you ration your love or how much love you have or how to integrate love into your existence, those are things that you have practical applications. And I think that's important are the practical applications.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's, I think, why these things can have an anti-addictive effect. One of the reasons is, you know, there's all sorts of pharmacological reasons, but even psychologically, they teach you that all these things are inside you have the ability to create these sorts of drug effects on your own to some extent, that it's all, it's your acetylcholine receptors that are being activated, you can activate them on your own.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I remember once I had taken a low dose, I believe it was 45 milligrams of DMT with 300 milligrams of myclobamide. And I was writing and I was really enjoying everything that I was writing. And I was thinking, damn, I'm getting some good writing done. I'm really working through ideas in an effective way. I'm loving this. But you know what would make it that much better is a little nicotine gum because I like nicotine gum. And that will make my thoughts sharper. That will give me enhanced clarity. And it will make my writing even better if I'm chewing nicotine gum. And then I looked at the nicotine gum and I thought, but then this is the thought that underlies all addiction. This is the thought that underlies all compulsive behaviors. I want more. It's not good enough the way it is. I want it to be that much better. But it will never be good enough. And the nicotine gum is already inside me. I can create my own nicotine gum. And I dramatically threw the nicotine gum across the room. I was like, I don't need this. I already am the nicotine gum.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's okay. Here's what I would say about that experience. I am not, I don't know what to do with experiences of that magnitude, and I'm reluctant to find a framework that explains it. So I don't know that it's especially beneficial. I don't think it was damaging, but I can say that at lower doses, ayahuasca has had much more practical benefit and sometimes almost cartoonishly practical.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Synthetic DMT with myclobamide. And coming out of it and thinking, well, that was a deconstruction of everything I have ever known and ever will know. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what year it was. Time had completely deconstructed. I saw my entire life as a book with each day a page in the book and just these profound Reconceptualizations of every aspect of being and then you come out of it and what do you do? Do you go and join your friend and watch Seinfeld?”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, if you can, the more that you can direct these things toward values that will help your life, I think that that's generally good because too much destabilization isn't healthy. I remember the first really, really, really, really strong ayahuasca experience I had a bit of that. I remember my friend was watching Seinfeld in the other room. And I came out of it thinking.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I say this cautiously, but to have that experience by yourself with no one explaining anything to you, to be confronted by the full magnitude of the mystery with an absence of explanation is one of the most powerful experiences that you can have I don't know if a shaman prevents you from having that experience. They might not, but I know that you will have it if there's no one there to tell you what's happening”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What the purpose of life is, that religions emerged to help people deal with these big existential questions, and they help. They help a lot. I think that's one reason that religions are as popular as they are because it's rough to sit alone in your apartment scratching your head wondering what the meaning of life is or something like that. And so I understand why people want these interpretive conceptual frameworks for the psychedelic experience. And that's why from the get-go in the 1960s, it was Zen Buddhism or the Tibetan Book of the Dead or whatever. Any explanatory framework that could be found was jumped on because the reality that there is no explanation”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was never determined, unfortunately. So And that's often the case with these. It's really out of open-mindedness that I think that people should be aware there's multiple ways to do these things, that it doesn't make your experience non-valid if it wasn't conducted in South America. But the other reason that you were initially getting at is that the mystery of existence or the mystery of life is sort of the grand mystery that we all must figure out for ourselves. And it's so difficult and painful to think about your own mortality and the death of the people that you love.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then all these people come out of the woodwork and say that maestro Muncaluto, I always knew there was something up with him. I always knew there was something wrong. He would say that he would just sit and watch soap operas while everyone was on ayahuasca. He wasn't watching anyone. And something about that struck me as being very dangerous that people cared more about what they perceived as being traditional than what was effective or what was safe. If he had thought, you know what, this is a T and if I'm really interested in it, maybe I can brew a low dose batch of it myself and test it out and figure this out on my own. I guarantee he was capable of it. And he would probably still be alive. So what was the cause of that?”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then they find his body buried in a shallow grave on the outskirts of the retreat. So as soon as that hits the news and it was actually international news was in tabloids, I do remember.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is it? No. But this is a question. So you're a white outsider and somebody says I'm a Martian. You don't want to appear racist. This could be their tradition. You don't know what their tradition is. Maybe they come from a long line of Martians. And it would be very offensive to question their Martian heritage. You don't know. True. So no one wants to say anything. So people are getting away with. Saying absolutely ridiculous things about themselves, just neglecting their duties, forget spiritual duties, just their duties as basically babysitters. They're not watching people. And there was a teenager named Kyle Nolan who went to Peru to have one of these sorts of experiences with a shaman named Maestro Moncaluto. disappeared. His parents go to the retreat looking for him. The shaman says, oh, he just...”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the idea that you have to go to a foreign country and be with a different culture to experience it, I think is flawed, especially because a tourist industry is emerged to satisfy this enormous demand of white outsiders in the Amazon. I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with drug tourism, but if the whole point of going there is to have a traditional experience, and then what you're actually having isn't traditional in the slightest, then what was the point of traveling in the first place? So one thing that happened is you had all these white outsiders that there isn't all that much anthropological literature on the subject, and they probably weren't reading it to begin with. They don't know what is traditional to begin with. a retreat, in this case it was a retreat called Shimbre, and the shaman says,”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Perversion of ayahuasca that shouldn't be called ayahuasca. And I found that very obnoxious and elitist and stupid because ayahuasca is a tea and it's a tea that anyone listening to this can make. Not that they should, but they can, assuming that you can boil plants in water. And it's not a special knowledge to make it”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there's a number. We can get back to that. I actually tried. I tried to do a story about the death of Kyle Nolan. I don't know if you know that story. Because one of my concerns, again, with dogma and with Is that people start to say that there is only one way to do things? So when ayahuasca was at the height of its popularity in New York at least, if you said to someone, I've done ayahuasca the next question they would ask you is, did you do it in the Amazon? And if the answer is no, then you didn't really do ayahuasca, did you? You just did some”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have gotten so much criticism for featuring that. And that's an interesting thing about making these. Documentaries is that there's a question of showing things the way they are, even if the way they are is potentially unsafe or trying to always set an example for other people. Because I don't want to misrepresent reality and say things are a way that they're not. But at the same time, that Experience showed me that Want to maybe set an example? I certainly got a lot of criticism for it. His reason for doing his sessions by the waters, I think simply that it was a beautiful location and the people that were smoking the venom were very experienced. So he thought that they could handle it. But clearly there's a risk of drowning. And clearly. You could hurt yourself on a sharp rock or something like that.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just the fact that it's even implicated in these deaths, even though it's not a direct effect, a direct toxic effect. It's always people drowning while they're dissociated or asphyxiating on their vomit. But just the fact that this had happened at all was enough to really give me some concerns about doing it.”
2018-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT