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Oliver Sacks answered that question in two of his books but also, conveniently, in this article here - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks

For the reasons that I agree with you and believe you are correct, I have achieved a Masters degree in transpersonal psychology and a doctorate in clinical psychology in the hopes of working clinically with these powerful psychoactive sacraments.

For the time being, I serve as the Executive Director for the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and am in collaboration with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, both of which are worth supporting and participating, if only for the cognitive liberties both organizations represent!

(feel free to contact me off-line with questions.)>> ^CreamK:

Very interesting take. Amphetamines are a ticking time bomb for your heart that is true. you can use them for years without noticing anything wrong and you may just drop dead at any time. Every time you take them you are cutting your life expectancy. They do have some therapeutic use but the fact is that pulse and blood pressure shoot so high that it's dangerous.
LSD and MDMA are much better for therapeutic uses, i've experimented with both, first recreationally but after realizing their potential have found them to be good tools. With LSD you can decrease depression for long periods of time, we are talking about months. MDMA is good for traumatizations, it enables the person to talk about his/her issues in a non-judgemental way, it kind of detaches the emotions from that trauma and gives closure. Both should be studied really carefully, i truly believe that hallucinogens are the answer to a lot of problems created by the modern high paced world and the lack of spirituality.

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I don't think neuroscience speaks to the question of souls. If you are trying to speak vagaries like souls, you should start by defining your terms. It isn't even clear, for instance, that neuroscience speaks to concepts like "consciousness" (again, whatever that means). Maybe this is a clip that would be better served with some context about the claims he is refuting. Otherwise, it's a pompous Sam Harris doing what pompous Sam Harris does: read some Oliver Sacks and call yourself a neuroscientist.

Robin Williams's character is based on Oliver Sacks, who has a much more awesome wardrobe.

and there is an oliver sacks story about temple grandin that is also great.

it's in "an anthropologist on mars".

stephen wiltshire is included in an oliver sacks book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679756973?v=glance