#11: Voodoo & Virtual Reality w/ Zeus Tipado
Researcher and friend of the show, Zeus Tipado stops by to chat about his path from a childhood in Creole Voodoo to today — with Mike Tyson, Laganja Estranja, Snoop Dogg, and more in between
Last Updated: February 29, 2024
Psychedelic researcher from the Netherlands, Zeus Tipado, joins Justin Cooke, J Gordon Curtis, and Rowan Zeoli to discuss his scientific journey. Born into a family of voodoo practitioners, Tipado found himself in search of a provable, undeniable truth as a teenager and clung to science.
Along the way, he’s managed to take large doses of psychedelics on camera (for Snoop Dogg, by the way) at E3 and Ru Paul’s Drag Con. And just wait until you hear about these first few trips Zeus went on…
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Follow Zeus:
- Catch up on Zeus’ current work through his Linktree
- Watch his educational videos for Healing Maps
- His web series for Snoop Dogg’s platform (Merry Jane) is called Super High Score
Further Reading | Topics Discussed:
- The time Zeus took 2 tabs of acid and smoked an infused joint at Ru Paul’s Drag Con (Youtube)
- Watch Zeus take an eighth of shrooms before entering E3 (Youtube)
- African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design, by Ron Eglash (Book)
- Virtual reality pain control during burn wound debridement in the hydrotank, by Drs. Hoffman, Patterson, et al. (Study)
- Synesthetic hallucinations induced by psychedelic drugs in a congenitally blind man, by Drs. Dell’Erba, Brown, and Proulx (Study)
- Group VR experiences can produce ego attenuation and connectedness comparable to psychedelics, by Drs. Glowacki, Williams, et al. (Study)
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