Exploring Drugs and Culture with Mike Jay

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • Apr 14, 2024 Mike Jay is a freelance journalist and cultural historian. He is author of many books including Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind; Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century; High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture; Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic; This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond; and The Influencing Machine: James Tilly and the Air Loom. His website is https://mikejay.net/ This wide-ranging interview provides something of an overview of Mike Jays research into all aspects of drugs and culture. 00:00 Introduction 07:49 Drug use in animals 15:01 Primary drugs unique to cultures 19:09 Social status and drugs 26:15 Religious use of drugs 32:34 Learning to use a drug 40:54 Drugs in the arts and literature 45:43 Drugs and ritual magic 48:45 Narcotics 55:39 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on March 20, 2024)

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