#135 - Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience

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Matthew Johnson is a psychedelic addiction scientist who spent
over two decades at Johns Hopkins before becoming the senior
researcher at Sheppard Pratt's Center of Excellence for
Psilocybin Research. He's personally guided over 100 people
through high-dose psilocybin sessions and says the "mystical
experience" that shows up in the data predicts recovery even
after you strip out how strong the drug felt.Expect to learn how
the psilocybin experience changes as the dose climbs from one
gram to a full "heroic dose," why a mystical-type experience
predicts addiction recovery even after controlling for how
intense the drug felt, what separates a mystical experience from
personal insight and emotional catharsis as predictors of
healing, why DMT users around the world keep reporting the same
handful of entity archetypes, the peer-reviewed Rupert Sheldrake
experiment testing whether people can sense who's about to call
them before the phone rings, why he thinks rigorous telepathy
research keeps getting ignored rather than debunked, why a
hard-nosed behavioral pharmacologist ends up leaning toward an
idealist view of reality, and much more…


Timestamps:


0:00:00 Trailer


0:02:28 Who Matt Johnson Actually Is


0:04:34 How He First Got Into Psychedelics


0:09:07 Did He Sense Addiction Benefits Early On


0:15:03 The First Mystical Experience Trial At Hopkins


0:16:42 What Counts As A High Dose Session


0:22:17 How The Trip Changes From 1 To 5 Grams


0:30:41 Why Mystical Experiences Predict Better Outcomes


0:33:34 Insight And Catharsis As Separate Predictors


0:39:49 DMT Entities And Machine Elves Explained


0:44:02 Why 20% Of DMT Users See The Same Beings


0:52:58 The Peer-Reviewed Telepathy Experiment That Shocked Him


0:59:32 Why No One Has Funded A Real Telepathy Study


1:11:04 Attention Schema Theory And The Illusion Of Self


1:16:00 Could A Single Cell Have Experience


1:17:54 Why He Leans Toward Idealism Over Materialism


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GS Episodes Mentioned


Michael Graziano — Challenging a Famous Neuroscientist On When
Consciousness First Emerged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnasmLpY5_8


Guest Links


Sheppard Pratt Profile:
https://www.sheppardpratt.org/news-views/story/sheppard-pratt-announces-dr-matthew-w-johnson-as-senior-researcher-for-the-center-of-excellence-for-psilocybin-research-and-treatment/X:
https://x.com/drug_researcherGoogle Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fWhYUvwAAAAJ&hl=enResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Johnson-57JHU
Faculty Bio:
https://hub.jhu.edu/experts/profiles/matthew-johnson/