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Apr 2023
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Season 5 - EP 2: Letting Go

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Psychedelics work by allowing us to have an experience with ourselves — To face our biggest traumas without being retraumatized.


This episode explores what that experience is like. But first, Black people (rightfully skeptical of altered states) must trust enough to let go.

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