Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2022-12-08
Books mentioned on Forcing the Mentally Ill into Hospital, Hallucinogen and Religion | STUFF THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW
Ben Bowlin discussed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and The sacred mushroom and the cross by John Marco Allegro.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey's classic novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" portrays institutional life and psychiatric practices through the experiences of patients in a mental asylum.
Discussed“it makes me think of the kind of criteria that allows you know like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or something you know we're like a problematic societal individual who's more of a counterculture type cat gets you know pegged as a mental health risk and then gets lobotomized you know what I mean that's obviously you know very”
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The sacred mushroom and the cross
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Marco Allegro is a controversial scholarly study that posits early Christianity originated from ancient fertility cults centered around the sacramental use of psychedelic mushrooms.
Discussed“it's this guy John M Allegro and back in the 70s in this book called The Sacred mushroom and the cross he he argued that it was um that the ultimate roots of Christianity and a bunch of other religions by the way is not just talking about Christianity comes from fertility Cults that are based on the same uh”
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