There is a lot we don't know about psychedelics, but what we do know makes them extremely important. In this video, Michael Pollan, Sam Harris, Jason Silva and Ben Goertzel discuss the history of psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin, acknowledge key figures including Timothy Leary and Albert Hoffman, share what the experience of therapeutic tripping can entail, and explain why these substances are important to the future of mental health. | Big Think

How CIA started the Hippie Movement? | MKULTRA LSD Story part-1 In the 1950s, the CIA launched Project MKULTRA—a secret mind-control program. The plan was to use LSD, hypnosis, and psychological experiments to control people’s minds. But instead, something unexpected happened… The CIA’s experiments accidentally leaked LSD into society, inspiring writers, musicians, and free-thinkers who fueled the hippie counterculture of the 1960s. From Timothy Leary at Harvard to Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests and the