DDJ and I have a few similar interests. Don't tell anyone. 🤫 https://t.co/OCei4p0BvC [Quoted] @zcichy @ExogenesisHH It is a nice essay. As noted by Jesse Bering, the definitive summary of Ian Stevenson's decades of research is found in his REINCARNATION AND BIOLOGY: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ETIOLOGY OF BIRTHMARKS AND BIRTH DEFECTS (1997). Two volumes, 2268 pages. It's not beach reading. https://t.co/h9sQDWjBFB

🍄 Ian Stevenson was thinking about this in 1957? Amazing! 🍄 If I take mescaline, "it may be true that I really have achieved a new and better vision of external reality." ~IS (H/T: @ddeanjohnson for letting me know about this book, which led me to this lecture.) Jesse Bering: "In the late 1950s, Ian started doing drugs. Specifically, he started doing psychedelics. Now, his initial aim was to induce a state of what he called experimental psychosis in his participants. So, the idea was to bet...