Episode 68: Bat Country (Drugs, pt 2)
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English - July 28, 2023 03:09 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Summary Let’s talk about psychedelics in ritual practice. From Hunter S. Thompson’s pilgrimage across the desert to the human sacrifices of the Incan empire in the sixteenth century to the use of opium during the late bronze age, people have been altering their mental states in religious contexts almost since the dawn of civilization. Join …