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Samuel Paul Douglas, PhD
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Psychedelic nonprofit cat-herder/space-holder, writer & philosopher. Will exchange words & knowledge for $. All opinions my own etc. He/him.
Website: https://www.psychedelicoverground.com/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-samuel-douglas-62061871
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- How much (or little) could psychedelic therapy cost if you have private health insurance?
- Are client testimonials ethical?
- Can tripping on the couch really be patented?

For all this, plus new research, wellness satire, and a joke, read on: theethicaltrip.beehiiv.com/p/a-claim-of...
A Claim of Thrones
Winter Is Deductible
theethicaltrip.beehiiv.com
EGA Garden States outfit sorted:
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Sydney Trains employee Cooper Stephens has been stood down after attending the National Socialist Network's rally at NSW Parliament last weekend www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Sydney Trains employee stood down after attending neo-Nazi rally
In a statement, a spokesman for Sydney Trains said it had stood down an employee while it investigated his potential involvement in the rally and was “very concerned with the matter”.
www.smh.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on.

Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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17/ > long history of determined opposition.

A trivial example: the leader of the NSN in NSW is Jack Eltis.

He runs a business.

Don't use it.

jeltisac.com
J Eltis Air Conditioning and Electrical
J Eltis Air conditioning installation. Sydney, NSW, Australia. The best quality. Located in western Sydney. A quick call and qualified, insured tradesmen will be there to help. Providing the best ser...
jeltisac.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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"why don't Australians care about local council as much as a NYC mayoral election?"

Australian local government: jade.io/article/1162...
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Somehow, in writing about Compass Pathways patent us20250302851a1, I’ve managed to get some pretty good Google rankings.I’d hoped the blog post would do well. But my Etsy listing for a shirt with a couch and a patent number on it at number 3? Did not expect that.
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Hi folks we're at about $600 so 1/3 of where we need to be give or take

Let's see if we can get a miracle tonight please and thanks
We've got another big one. Today we are feeding children who apparently are collateral damage to the President's ego.

Short version is an illness and an accident disabled the parents, benefits are fucked, they need help.

Venmo or chime: linda-tirado-3
PayPal bootstrapindustries@gmail
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I wrote recently about the entry of private health insurance to psychedelic assisted therapy here in Australia. In particular, I sought clarity on how much (or little) it would cost clients.

Feedback from a reader indicates there might more to this story.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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@mja.com.au I sent you an email yesterday about an article by "medical practitioner" Cathy Keezelman - she is not a medical practitioner and I've reported her to AHPRA, along with the "facts" on repressed memories the Blue Knot Foundation promotes. I hope you'll consider removing her article.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” ~ Eugene V. Debs.
July 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
BRB, going to see how everyone feels about this on LinkedIn.
Breaking news: Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is elected as the next mayor of New York City, defeating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and becoming the first Muslim and first of Indian descent to hold the office. https://wapo.st/47rlrDf
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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They should, but only because the US holds its elections on a weekday. Just have your elections on a Saturday, so the polls can close at 6pm and you know who's won by 9pm and if you wake up hungover it's ok because it's Sunday and you probably don't have to go to work.

Also, compulsory voting.
It’ll never not be wild to me how early the polls close in US elections. They start closing at 7pm. They should be open until at least 10pm
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
All-new KambōSync™ integrates biometric feedback with karmic alignment, delivering amphibian peptides through a patented transdermal patch on your wrist.

Your certified AI-Shaman™ adjusts your dose in real-time, ensuring your purge aligns perfectly with your scrum sprints and your social life.
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
JD Vance walks into a La-Z-Boy store while high on mushrooms.

No sooner has he sat down than an IP lawyer serves him with papers, suing him for infringing a Compass Pathways patent.

1/2
November 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What exactly would it take for her to be permanently banned from being a registered nurse?
November 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
- How much (or little) could psychedelic therapy cost if you have private health insurance?
- Are client testimonials ethical?
- Can tripping on the couch really be patented?

For all this, plus new research, wellness satire, and a joke, read on: theethicaltrip.beehiiv.com/p/a-claim-of...
A Claim of Thrones
Winter Is Deductible
theethicaltrip.beehiiv.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Today I learned that there is a brand of clothing called Soft Goat.
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Excellent
🚨 In Newcastle today, Rising Tide painted “TAX ME” on a coal ship named Climate Justice, calling for a 78% fossil fuel profits tax to fund a just transition for workers + communities. Australia’s biggest polluters pay less tax than nurses.

#RisingTide #ClimateJustice
October 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Even as an advertorial, this gives me the ick. And by 'ick', I mean the urge to smash capitalism.
📢 Affluent Australians are rethinking what wealth means – and how to protect it.
Safeguarding wealth in a changing world
www.smh.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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27 October 1903 | A Czech Jewish woman, Mariana Mautnerová, was born in Jihlava.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 May 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Funnily enough, one of my favourites so far is the Psychedelic Centrist Club t-shirt. I can’t see it selling well though: everyone who isn’t a centrist hates centrists. Almost everyone who is a centrist claims they’re not centrists.
I decided there weren’t enough shirts that captured my sense of ‘WTF?’ at the world of psychedelic business & politics.
theethicaltrip.etsy.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I decided there weren’t enough shirts that captured my sense of ‘WTF?’ at the world of psychedelic business & politics.
theethicaltrip.etsy.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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A Melbourne real estate agency just casually putting a job out on Airtasker for a lawyer to write a cease and desist for a fkn Google review. Incredible.
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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'The horrific neo-Nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty in August was a racially motivated attack on First Peoples.

21 federal cross-benchers and [Senator Lidia Thorpe] have written to the government and authorities calling for it to be investigated as a hate crime.'

www.lidiathorpe.com/mr_crossbenc...
Crossbench backs Thorpe's call for hate crimes investigation into Camp Sovereignty attack
Independent Senator for Victoria
www.lidiathorpe.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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The thing is, until you have personally experienced this kind of targeted operation it sounds like tinfoil hat or the ravings of someone who has lost their grip on reality.

And once it happens, almost no one will believe you if you so choose to confide. You end up alone, frozen
"The aim was to induce personal crises in victims, leaving them too unnerved and psychologically distressed to have the time and energy for anti-government activism"
October 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM