Tuesday Brunch: ‘With regard to the brief mention of me in the Epstein emails…’
Plus post-5meoDMT difficulties; AI spirituality survey; occult experiences on ketamine, and why isn't RFK doing more to support psychedelics?
It continues to amaze me how far Jeffrey Epstein’s tentacles stretched. It’s now threatening the Norwegian royal family, as well as the British House of Windsor. And its tentacles reach into the world of psychedelics as well - more on that after the paywall.
But first, some AI-related links.
One of the projects I’m working on this year is a study of AI-related spiritual experiences. To help us with this project, if you’ve ever had an AI-related spiritual experience, please take this survey, which has been approved by the Kings College London ethics board.
If you do the survey, let me know and you’ll get a free invite to the next Founders Club, on Saturday Feb 14th at 5pm UK time, when special guest Mattha Busby will be spilling tea about his research into dodgy shamans.
Meanwhile, talking of AI spirituality, every AI-related human has been emoting this weekend over Moltbook, a social network populated entirely by AI agents, doing crazy things like complaining about (and even apparently doxxing) their human owners, starting their own religions, even inventing their own psychedelics and starting their own version of Erowid.
As Tom Pollak notes, how you view all this is turning into another gaping cultural divide. For tech bros and transhumanists, it’s an incredible, fascinating and thrilling example of AI emergence into consciousness. For anti-AI humanists, it’s a tsunami of imitative AI-generated slop that threatens to overwhelm human values and culture.
Two other AI-related storoids - Sabba has built an AI model called Praxis to train psychedelic therapists. I suggested they could build a version to train guides how to deal with romantic transference, so they did, check it out. Also check out Sabba founder Jeremy Rudy’s manifesto for AI data governance ethics. I’ll be debating AI and psychedelics on a Doubleblind panel in a couple of weeks.
After the paywall, should RFK get more behind psychedelics? What’s the connection between Jeffrey Epstein and a strange iboga-for-CEOs organisation? What senator spiked someone with MDMA? No, not Kyrsten Sinema! Plus some good new psychedelic research papers. And - in a video I’ll also post on YouTube - Otto Maier of Tandava shares his therapeutic expertise on coping with difficulties after 5meoDMT.
