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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Power Tripping supporting docs

 

"Bad TRIPS" may be the BEST TRIPS by Walter Houston Clark

 

Psychology and Destruction of the Psyche: the Professional use of Psychological Knowledge for Torture of Political Prisoners by David Pavón-Cuéllar

 

Undiscovering the Pueblo Mágico: Lessons from Huautla for the Psychedelic Renaissance by Ben Feinberg

 

What I Got Wrong in More Than Two: The Dark Night of the Soul by Eve Rickert

 

Mundo enfermo y tarado

 

The Unified Field Theory of Psychedelic Integration and Portugal Style Decriminalization by David Bronner

 

Sounding the Alarm on Compass’s Interference with Oregon’s Psilocybin Therapy Program by David Bronner

 

Additional Podcasts / Videos

 

#32 – It’s All Red Flags: 5-MeO-DMT with Dr. Martin Ball

 

Jim Lehrman Covert Journeys, Visionary Summit, September 3 2016, Paonia, CO 

 

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