Dimitri and Khalid speak with Brian Normand, Russell Hausfeld, and Brian Pace from the psychedelic watchdog group Psymposia about their excellent new 200+ page report, “The Psychedelic Syndicate”.
Other topics discussed: how and why Psymposia became the psychedelic industry’s anointed scapegoat after the FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy in 2024, Hamilton Morris’s defamatory and weirdly misogynistic attacks on Psymposia in his recent Channel 5 interview, the rapid ascendance of a right-wing techno-capitalist psychedelic culture over the last 5-10 years, the billionaire-stuffed PSFC money network that took over MAPS, why handing Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, and Kimbal Musk a for-profit psychedelic therapy monopoly in 2025 might be a bad idea, using military veterans as a sympathetic smokescreen to ram pseudoscientific Grofian therapeutic protocols through regulatory agencies, Steve Jurvetson’s post-MeToo fever dreams of building an AI-assisted psychedelic pro-capitalist Burning Man Gaia religion, and what it’s like facing a coordinated onslaught from the entheogenic mafia of MAPS/Esalen New Agers, Silicon Valley technofascists, one-shotted heirs of Great American Fortunes, duplicitous New York Times reporters, and astroturfed “veterans’ groups” who are seeking to define and control the future of psychedelic use across the American empire.
Read “The Psychedelic Syndicate” report here: https://www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-syndicate-executive-summary-silicon-valley-maps-lykos-mdma-fda-billionaires/
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Dimitri and Khalid speak with Brian Normand, Russell Hausfeld, and Brian Pace from the psychedelic watchdog group Psymposia about their excellent new 200+ page report, “The Psychedelic Syndicate”.
Other topics discussed: how and why Psymposia became the psychedelic industry’s anointed scapegoat after the FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy in 2024, Hamilton Morris’s defamatory and weirdly misogynistic attacks on Psymposia in his recent Channel 5 interview, the rapid ascendance of a right-wing techno-capitalist psychedelic culture over the last 5-10 years, the billionaire-stuffed PSFC money network that took over MAPS, why handing Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, and Kimbal Musk a for-profit psychedelic therapy monopoly in 2025 might be a bad idea, using military veterans as a sympathetic smokescreen to ram pseudoscientific Grofian therapeutic protocols through regulatory agencies, Steve Jurvetson’s post-MeToo fever dreams of building an AI-assisted psychedelic pro-capitalist Burning Man Gaia religion, and what it’s like facing a coordinated onslaught from the entheogenic mafia of MAPS/Esalen New Agers, Silicon Valley technofascists, one-shotted heirs of Great American Fortunes, duplicitous New York Times reporters, and astroturfed “veterans’ groups” who are seeking to define and control the future of psychedelic use across the American empire.
Read “The Psychedelic Syndicate” report here: https://www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-syndicate-executive-summary-silicon-valley-maps-lykos-mdma-fda-billionaires/
For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
*PREVIEW* [#270] SEKRET MACHINE MUSIC VII: Kraftwerk, Stockhausen, and the War on Disco
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*PREVIEW* [#270] SEKRET MACHINE MUSIC VII: Kraftwerk, Stockhausen, and the War on Disco
In the seventh installment of Sekret Machine Music, Dimitri and Khalid explore the origins and colossal impact of West German electro-pop pioneers Kraftwerk, including: the looming influence of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Cologne-based Studio for Electronic Music and its murky entanglements with Cultural Cold War operations, the late 60s rise of ‘krautrock’ and attempts to forge a new organic post-Nazi German identity, the ambiguities around cultural symbolism on 1974’s “Autobahn” and nuclear power on 1975’s “Radioactivity”, the US/UK success of their seminal 1977 album “Trans-Europe Express”, Kraftwerk blowing up on African-American radio stations in the northeast and midwest, leaning into the “robotic” German stereotypes, the gradual introduction of Kraftwerk’s music onto the discotheque dancefloors of the late 1970s, the birth of disco in gay bathhouses, Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer forever marrying synthesizers and disco together with “I Feel Love”, and the strange proto-MAGA rockist culture war that culminated in Chicago’s “Disco Demolition Night” riot of 1979…
For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
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Dimitri and Khalid speak with Brian Normand, Russell Hausfeld, and Brian Pace from the psychedelic watchdog group Psymposia about their excellent new 200+ page report, “The Psychedelic Syndicate”.
Other topics discussed: how and why Psymposia became the psychedelic industry’s anointed scapegoat after the FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy in 2024, Hamilton Morris’s defamatory and weirdly misogynistic attacks on Psymposia in his recent Channel 5 interview, the rapid ascendance of a right-wing techno-capitalist psychedelic culture over the last 5-10 years, the billionaire-stuffed PSFC money network that took over MAPS, why handing Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, and Kimbal Musk a for-profit psychedelic therapy monopoly in 2025 might be a bad idea, using military veterans as a sympathetic smokescreen to ram pseudoscientific Grofian therapeutic protocols through regulatory agencies, Steve Jurvetson’s post-MeToo fever dreams of building an AI-assisted psychedelic pro-capitalist Burning Man Gaia religion, and what it’s like facing a coordinated onslaught from the entheogenic mafia of MAPS/Esalen New Agers, Silicon Valley technofascists, one-shotted heirs of Great American Fortunes, duplicitous New York Times reporters, and astroturfed “veterans’ groups” who are seeking to define and control the future of psychedelic use across the American empire.
Read “The Psychedelic Syndicate” report here: https://www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-syndicate-executive-summary-silicon-valley-maps-lykos-mdma-fda-billionaires/
For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
