The Benefits of Psychedelics in Addressing Emotional Traumas and Irrationality Transcript: Rick Doblin Are often suppressed. We see in America and around the world a kind of rise of irrationality where people push away their logic in order for their emotional tribal needs to be met. A lot of people are suffering from early childhood traumas of a different kind or abandonment issues or anything. So we tend to focus on just what we need to survive and what we need for work and esteem. And so psychedelics, by dissolving this ego control or by, with MDMA, kind of strengthening our sense of self and our sense of self-acceptance, we can bring in other information that Have previously been too complicated or too painful. Lex Fridman You don’t (Time 0:12:56)