The speaker has evolved from viewing psychology and reality as absolutely real (like Newtonian physics) to understanding that reality is relative and dependent on one's perspective, a shift catalyzed by his first psychedelic experience with psilocybin mushrooms in 1961.
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“I could watch my mind go from from um Western psychologist Professor with a model of reality that said psychology is real and I teach it as real it's absolutely real and then there's the Psychedelic period after the mushrooms in 1961 when I then say It's relatively real [3:07]”
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