Power Tripping #4: Bad Hug

December 26, 2021

Power Tripping #4: Bad Hug

December 26, 2021

Power Tripping #4: Bad Hug

December 26, 2021

Many people are familiar with MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s illegal human experimentation program, which involved psychedelics and resulted in torture techniques that have since been used at CIA black sites around the world. What if someone tried to tell you these techniques were, in fact, a novel therapy that could revolutionize mental healthcare and transform dissidents into better citizens? In this episode, we discuss Dr. Salvador Roquet, a man who tortured people for the Mexican state and also parlayed those techniques to become an influential pioneer of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. What does it mean that Roquet’s trainings and ideologies have influenced an untold number of present-day psychedelic practitioners?

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