Ep. 8/44 — From Alchemy to Consciousness: A Brief History
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Ep. 8/44 — From Alchemy to Consciousness: A Brief History
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In Episode 8, we take a step back, way back.
Before the receptors.Before the psychedelics.Before the mind was even a scientific question.
We trace the long arc from ancient alchemy to modern neurochemistry, and ask:How did manipulating matter lead us to question the mind?
This episode travels through:
⚗️ The esoteric roots of chemistry: from transformation to transmutation🔬 The rise of laboratory science: and the industrial economy that fueled it🧠 The birth of neurochemistry as a serious science of the soul📉 The impact of war, profit, and pharmacology on how we study consciousness🌍 And how spiritual inquiry was rebranded as scientific “objectivity”
What emerges is not a clean timeline, but a pattern.A poetic throughline, where the search for gold became the search for serotonin.Where philosopher-scientists became drug developers.And where the lab became a new kind of altar.
If we want to understand the modern psychedelic renaissance, we have to understand how we got here, chemically, culturally, and economically.
This episode sets the stage for everything to come, especially as we begin to explore how psychedelics helped force science to look inward again.
As always, thank you for listening, reading, and wondering alongside me.
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