The Taproot Podcast
The Taproot therapy podcasts discusses trauma anthropology, philosophy, mythology and the implications of psychology on art and design. We dabble in neuroscience, brain based medicine, Jungian psychology, and various modes of artistic expression and healing.
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Science, Bureaucracy, Oil and Odyssey at the end of Empire Part 2 (opens the original)
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Oil is a psychological event, and nobody experienced it as one. For ten thousand years, every household chose nightly between eating its oil and burning it for light. Petroleum ended the choice, and this episode is about what winning did to us. Part two of the Parachute Problem finishes Nolan's Odyssey first: the Sea Peoples as the empire's own veterans, Odysseus bringing Troy's tactics home, Athena's amnesia as national dissociation, the war with no ledger. Then the substance: what crude oil ac
Science, Bureaucracy, Oil and Odyssey at the end of Empire: Part 1 (opens the original)
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The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD after the best trial results ever recorded for the disorder, because the patients could tell they were on the drug. That decision is the cleanest proof of the psycho-history series thesis: we have turned science into a ritual, and the ritual now outranks the truth. This episode covers the 2024 FDA decision, why the placebo effect is actually the ritual of care working, why noticing may be the mechanism of action psychology cannot admit, the fake No
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