The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience

This book by Robert Masters and Jean Houston was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: guest. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “masters in houston that wrote a really good book the varieties of psychedelic experience kind of which is a play on varieties of religious experience by william james”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “wrote a really good book”
  guest · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 202002:10:28

  Said during "Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145". The episode features Matthew Johnson: A professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins and one of the world's leading scientists studying psychedelics, addiction, and behavioral economics. Johns Hopkins psychedelics researcher Matthew Johnson on how psilocybin, DMT, and addiction science reveal the mind's hidden flexibility and depth.