[#146] SUS PSYCHEDELICS INC., Part Three: MAPS to the Stars / Dimitri’s Trip

PHASE THREE: RUNNING THE SHOW

Dimitri’s high school experiences with 2C-B and MDMA, the synchronicity of the Hyphy/Thizz movement sprouting up in Alexander Shulgin’s East Bay backyard, the extremely different vibes around drugs in 2005, and Dimitri’s unreleased 2009 documentary about suburban Thizz dealers in the Bay…

The Esalen origins of the Multidisciplinary Association for Pyschedelic Studies (MAPS), “Early Therapeutic Use of MDMA, 1977-1985”, Claudio Naranjo and Shulgin’s work on MDA and mescaline, the Boston Group, Shulgin turning on Lt. Colonel Leo Zeff aka “The Secret Chief” to MDMA in 1977, ARUPA at Esalen, Jungian lay therapist Ann Shulgin, her theory that using MDMA helps you recognize the positive aspects of the totally selfish demon inside you, Chilean Dr. Claudio Naranjo and Sasha Shulgin’s collaboration from 1962 onward, Jack Downing’s Exuma Island Institute in the Bahamas, Dr. George Greer and his wife Requa Tolbert, Catholic priest Michael Clegg who began selling ecstasy in Dallas night clubs in 1983, Dr. Rick Ingrasci promoting MDMA therapy on Donahue in 1985, Tim Leary’s former Harvard research partner Ralph Metzner, Doblin founding the Earth Metabolic Design Laboratories (EMDL) in 1984, Physical Abuse in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy, founding MAPS advisors Francesco Di Leo and Rick Ingrasci both losing their therapist licenses for having sex with patients during MDMA sessions…

Background on rogue chemist/psychedelic godfather Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, Shulgin’s decades-long relationship with the DEA, his membership at Bohemian Grove, Shulgin’s infamous bad vibes concoction STP/DOM, German pharma companies selling 2C-B aka “Nexus” in 1990s South Africa...

PHASE FOUR: DIMITRI’S TRIP

Dimitri reveals for the first time his journeys with “Gustavo” (a Peruvian shaman to the 0.01%) in 2011, getting psyopped by ayahuasca utopianism, and which billionaires were secretly getting EnLiGhTeNeD years before the new corporadelic renaissance hit the mainstream.