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Room for interpretation

Room for interpretation

Written by: Ask Foldspang Neve
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Room for interpretation asks how the political and the personal intersect. In the podcast, Ask Foldspang Neve talks about the sociology of emotions, the collectiveness of individual therapy, and the personal impact of and on world affairs.

I'm asking why private therapy has overtaken party membership as a means to change the world; if collective change is possible without personal development; and whether the everything-crisis has anything but an everything-solution.

Tune in for talks about war, therapy, politics, drugs, and psycho-social distinctions.

Opening music: Excerpt from Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach — performed by John Michel, licensed under CC BY 3.0. Edited for length.

Ask Foldspang Neve Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Stoned Ape Revisited: What Psychedelics Do (and Don’t) — A Conversation with Dr Jakob Vinther

    Stoned Ape Revisited: What Psychedelics Do (and Don’t) — A Conversation with Dr Jakob Vinther
    Dec 2 2025

    What do psychedelics actually do? Why do they feel so different from other drugs? And could they be far older than the 1960s counterculture?

    In this episode, Ask speaks with paleontologist Jakob Vinther (University of Bristol) about the neuroscience behind psychedelic experiences — how they interact with serotonin receptors, why the default mode network matters, and what explains both the intensity and the risks of these states.

    They discuss why psychedelics don’t behave like stimulants or sedatives, what really causes a “bad trip,” and why set and setting are so crucial.

    Jakob then lays out a revised, testable version of the Stoned Ape hypothesis: the idea that early humans may have carried psychedelic mushrooms with them as they migrated across the world, making these substances a much older part of the human story than we usually think.

    A clear, grounded look at the science — and the deep history — of psychedelics.
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    1 hr and 41 mins
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