#285 - Psychedelic Test Subject: Billionaires are Funding a Drug Fueled Holy War | Travis Kitchens

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Danny Jones

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Travis Kitchens was a psychedelic research subject for Johns Hopkins University who eventually uncovered a secret plan to revive religion with drugs. Travis is currently a freelance journalist who writes extensively on the history and philosophy of psychedelic research. He lives in Kentucky. SPONSORS http://evening.ver.so/danny - Get 15% off your first order. https://hims.com/danny - Start your FREE online visit today. https://shopmando.com - Use code DANNY for $5 off your starter pack. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off EPISODE LINKS Travis Substack - https://vegetabletelevision.substack.com The Most Controversial Paper in the History of Psychedelic Research - https://bit.ly/3WWoayH The Strange Case of The Immortality Key - https://bit.ly/42MzIIL FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Johns Hopkins' psychedelic study 08:22 - 'Robo-tripping' 17:00 - The Council on Spiritual Practices 25:30 - Can humans summon aliens? 43:33 - How the psychedelic renaissance started 56:11 - Did ancient mystery cults start Christianity? 01:01:25 - Graham Hancock vs Academia 01:11:30 - The fall of Christianity 01:20:47 - What happens to the brain on psychedelics 01:25:34 - MAPS 01:33:22 - The Catholic church is pushing drugs 01:38:10 - The Immortality Key: A New Reformation 01:42:59 - DARPA: Psychedelics on the battlefield 01:48:38 - Travis' weird email from Roland Griffiths 01:52:49 - MKUltra 2.0 01:57:36 - Reviving religion with Psychedelic drugs 02:15:16 - Secret unreleased psychedelic paper 02:24:33 - Who is funding psychedelic medicine research? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And it's not that so much I'm scared.
0:01.9	I'm simply trying to report.
0:03.8	When you have behavior scientists teaming up with venture capitalist in the Catholic Church, that's worth writing about.
0:09.4	That's a story.
0:10.3	The pews are empty out for a reason.
0:12.1	You lied and covered up a scandal in which you destroyed people's lives.
0:15.2	Now let's try to rebuild it with psychedelic drugs.
0:17.7	This is an insane idea.
0:27.3	What's up, Travis?
0:28.0	What's happening?
0:28.9	Thanks for coming, brother.
0:29.8	Thank you very much.
0:30.4	Thanks for having me.
0:31.0	Of course.
0:42.2	Dude, your background is fascinating, how you got into journalism and how you got into this crazy, long investigation on religion and psychedelic research and the psychedelic renaissance and the stuff with the immortality key for people who don't know
0:47.7	who you are just can you give us like a background on how you got into journalism and what happened
0:53.1	with you being involved in that John Hopkins
0:55.0	psychedelic study. Yeah, yeah, I was living in Baltimore and, sorry, I was living in Baltimore
1:01.4	and my background is in engineering. So I was actually working at a local hospital, installing
1:07.0	and repairing medical equipment. And I got into journalism because a friend of mine, Bainard Woods, he was an editor at the
1:16.6	Baltimore City Paper, which is like an Alt Weekly. I'm guessing your audience knows what
1:20.6	an Alt Weekly. Before the Internet all over the country, you'd have like the Tampa City
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