Extinction Rebellion co-founder reveals she was inspired to begin the climate change protest movement after taking ‘psychedelic medicines’ as group shuts down central Manchester
- Gail Bradbrook, 47, said she ‘prayed in a deep way’ while taking substances
- She told BBC Inside Out West that her prayer was answered within a month
- Protests have since caused road and commuter chaos around the country
- Latest disruption brought to Deansgate area of Manchester on Friday
By Harry Howard For Mailonline
Published: 08:05 EDT, 1 September 2019 | Updated: 08:14 EDT, 1 September 2019
One of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion has revealed she began the movement after taking ‘psychedelic medicines’ – just days following the shutdown of central Manchester by climate protesters.
Gail Bradbrook, 47, a molecular biologist, said she ‘prayed in a deep way’ while taking the substances on a retreat.
She told a BBC Inside Out West documentary that her prayer was answered within a month, with Extinction Rebellion formed last year.
Since then, protests in London and around the country have caused chaos, with a week of protests in July causing widespread disruption in the capital and the latest protest in Manchester on Friday bringing misery to drivers.
Gail Bradbrook, one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion, has revealed she began the movement after taking ‘psychedelic medicines’ – just days after climate protesters shut down central Manchester
Ms Bradbrook said: ‘I’ve always been interested in how things change, in social change,’ she told the documentary.
‘I was involved in the animal rights movement as a young woman, I’ve been involved in thinking about gender and issues around racism and so on.
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Ms Bradbrook, a molecular biologist, said she ‘prayed in a deep way’ while taking the substances on a retreat. She told a BBC Inside Out West documentary that her prayer was answered within a month, with Extinction Rebellion formed last year
‘It was a really intense experience and I actually prayed for what I called the codes for social change, I thought there must be something I don’t understand, and within a month my prayer was literally answered.’
Extinction Rebellion began in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with large protests spreading quickly across the UK.
Dr Bradbrook described how it started with around 12 people in her house but went global within a year.
‘We know we’ve got about 100,000 people on the database in the UK and we reach about a million people with the social media,’ she said.
‘We’ve got 130 groups across the UK. We’re in 59 countries and it’s growing all the time.’
Since the group was formed last year protests around the country have caused chaos, with a week of protests in July causing widespread disruption in the capital and the latest protest in Manchester on Friday (pictured) bringing misery to drivers
The movement has three demands for the UK Government: to declare a climate and ecological emergency; to act to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025; and to create and be led by the decisions of a citizens’ assembly on climate and ecological justice.
During the documentary, cameras were allowed into an Extinction Rebellion meeting in Stroud.
A number of those taking part in the meeting are seen holding each other and crying.
Simon Bramwell, another co-founder, told the BBC: ‘Depending on the group, we’ll have prayers. We have a lot of Christians and Quakers involved in Extinction Rebellion.
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That explains a lot…
I always suspected that this type of protest group was inspired by crazy people for crazy people – this admission supports that premise. Is it unreasonable to now require they prove they are NOT crazy?
100,000 is not even 1% of the UK electorate, but that means the Government must pay attention to them?
[SNIP. Let’s not open the door to this type of discussion. -mod]
May I point out, that while Stroud is ground zero for eco-dingbats in the UK, not everyone who lives there is quite so deluded. I’ve lived in Stroud for over forty years and consider myself reasonably sane.
Bloke down the pub: “I’ve lived in Stroud for over forty years and consider myself reasonably sane.”
We’ll be by to verify that last bit, Bloke. Please have a note from your psychiatrist ready ;o)
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You sound like you’re in the heart of hostile territory. If anyone suggests ‘camping’ or ‘camp’ run! Run like the wind! They’ve spotted you as a wrong thinker.
The view from my front window includes Rodborough Fort, which is now owned by Dale Vince the owner of Ecotricity. So, yes, I do feel a bit surrounded.
This is serious delusion that borders on “Kindness-that-kills”. As self-proclaimed do-gooders negatively disrupt the lives of others this will only get worse.
What will it be next? emergency ambulance services that get blocked? fire brigade? police? or merely some poor unfortunate who cannot attend a medical appointment and suffers ill-health due to the delay?
Dingbats on acid
The enemy within!
We’ve got a group of them in our town. They harass us at a stop-light to take a paper fact-sheet from them — “Don’t you care if your grandchildren live???!!”. Me — I could only think the tree that had died to make that paper… sniff.
BallBounces,
In response, ask them “Does your mother know her bowel movement lived?”
‘Yes and they will die without affordable gas or electricity in the winter!’
That is the answer to those loons.
If these idiots could only understand that the only impending existential threat civilization faces is if they get their way and something like the new green deal gets implemented.
… well her demands are:
“The government must tell … how deadly our situation is”
and
“…must reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025 and … remove the excess of atmosphere … ”
she, as an obviously non carbon based lifeform. moleclar biologist, wants to reduce carbon emissions to zero? Excess of atmosphere???
“demand a Citizens Assembly … creating a democracy fit for purpose”
where everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
https://www.vigiliae.org/dr-gail-marie-bradbrook-compassionate-revolutionary-for-hire-by-un-extinction/
Idiots rarely understand much of anything.
You would be more successful talking to the the squirrels.
Never mind psychedelic substances. For those that know the recipes, the Social Media is an excellent means to dispense Magic Mushrooms.
I took psychedelic substances and realised that politics and the media was just a muppet show and we were all being lied to.
At the time I dismissed it as a paranoid fantasy.
50 years later I realised it was true.
In those days psychedelics were eye opening substances. They helped to see things what they are, not what they seem to be. They activated BS – detectors very sensitive way to not believe anything before very deep thinking. They were gate to skepticism. Good stuff.
Today, substances what she took should be labeled as psykodelic substances. She didn´t come back to this planet.
And I necessarily conclude that the continuing actions of Gail Bradbrook with her Extinction Rebellion are the permanent effects of having once taken those mind-altering drugs.
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” — slogan originated by Arthur Fletcher, former head of the UNCF
My slogan is a waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Anybody wearing a freakin’ NOSE RING at 47 years old should be dismissed out of hand–nuckin’ FUTS!
Further confirmation that dingbatitis is fuelled by drugs.
All government buildings, particularly the UN, should have their wastewater sampled for drugs in order to assess the extent of addiction and what specific drugs have the greatest impact on the malady.
Why not mandatory testing?
“Further confirmation that dingbatitis is fuelled by drugs.”
And prayer.
What that article doesn’t say is Ms Bradbrook’s “retreat” was in Costa Rica where she jetted off to find herself and smoked some local hallucination invoking leaves, jetted home again following her spiritual awakening and dumped her husband and two children.
maybe ‘ inducing ‘ was the word you looking for.
Indeed it was. My age and lack of drugs.
So the husband and children got lucky by the look of things.
And she uses fossil fuels every day! the HYPOCRITE! flaming hypocrisy.
That’s what they call drug users now? Molecular biologists?
Nice. 🙂
They called them Rhodes Scholars in Oxford in the 1990s and yes, a few were doing PhDs in Molecular Biology….
“One pill makes you smaller, the other makes you tall…And the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all. Just ask Alice/Gail…..”
Hmm… I have been using psilocybin mushrooms to get over my depression, and I think they work very well for that (if done wisely) . Anyways, I feel that they could be one main reason that I started to question the mainstream climate change discourse. They are powerful tools for break all kind of learned mindsets and social programming.
How does one decide the dosage? I can imagine that some mushrooms and parts are more concentrated than others. I assume that they are dried to a fairly consistent level.
Psylocybin should only be used under a guidance of a good shaman (the guy who supplies the wisdom). I wonder if Dr. Bradbrook improvised.
Khellstr
Have you heard of the placebo effect? Without a double-blind study, how can you be sure that you aren’t curing your depression yourself?
Well, if it works, placebo or not…
Anyway, there are what I assume to be properly conducted studies showing the effectiveness of psilocybin as treatment of depression.
One of the resources for psilocybin research is
https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms.shtml
“The Vaults of Erowid “? Oh, please give me a break. This is what happens when you abuse psychoactive drugs, kids. Tell us all about the wisdom of Carlos Castaneda next, why don’t you?
As to the poster who suggested a shaman, did you know that’s the Quechua word for “astute business person”? 😀
List of 464 peer reviewed papers on psilocybin at Eorwid:
https://www.erowid.org/references/refs.php?S=psilocin+or+psilocybin
Erowid is one of the largest repositories of knowledge regarding psychoactive plants.
I’ll give you a break when you stop with the mindless snark.
They didn’t do much for your comprehension of syntax, but that aside: self-medicating for mental illness with psychedelics is risky and dumb, to say nothing of juvenile. The back alleys and mental hospitals of the western world are full of people like you. No congratulations from this quarter, no matter what you claim about your depression at present.
A “depression” must not always be: a depression.
Sometimes it’s just a natural, healthy reaction to the situation you’re in.
The source of this story is questionable. Is the poster absolutely sure the National Lampoon has not started a comeback, or that it might come from a deliberate hoax? When we were doing psychedelics in the 1970’s, we warned each other that that batch of Windowpane made people paranoid. It was so ’60s to think chemicals made you profound, rather than effed up.
Extinction Rebellion, is that Pro Life then?
Goodness me, net zero green house gases by 2025.. who will transport their food from Europe or the rest of the world, how will people get to work, how will the ambulance or police serve work? What if the fire brigade is needed? You can just say “Stop” with out giving another viable solution to our transport needs! The british trains and buses are packed solid in the mornings and evenings, if everybody gave up their cars and vans, nobody would be able to get to work or get home in the evening.
True. But the greens are never in front of the class when higher order thinking skills are required.
“….if everybody gave up their cars and vans, nobody would be able to get to work or get home in the evening.”
Most Green activists are unemployed or living off trust funds. They don’t need public transport as they don’t go to work every day.
That’s just silly, Graeme. Everyone knows that Tom Steyer and George Soros sends Hummer limos for them. Then get out one block over and walk the rest of the way, so as not to seem hypocrites.
She’s on “psychedelic medicines.” Enough said….
Zen Buddhists work on puzzles called koans. The idea of a koan is that it defeats logical reasoning. In the process a practitioner is likely to experience something like an epiphany. What she does then is trot over to her roshi who will explain to her why her supposed epiphany is wrong. So, that leads me to believe that the vast majority of people’s epiphanies are wrong. The trouble is that they will strongly be convinced that they have discovered the wisdom of the ages. That can cause them to do really stupid stuff.
I bet a buck that’s what happened to Ms. Bradbrook.
“Seek and you will find. Ask and you shall receive. Knock and the door who’ll be opened.”
This is a very powerful bit of scripture, but it should come with an important disclaimer: Be careful what you ask for. She prayed for change, but with little idea of what would be better! Our prayers, like our actions, often have unintended consequences.
No. prayers only make the person praying feel better about themselves. If a prayer “comes true” it’s simply confirmation bias, since the prayor ignores all the prayers that weren’t “answered”. Like going to a “psychic” and being amazed at the hits, while ignoring the misses.
James
To non believers your quote is just simple common sense.
From my experience, generally most religions close the mind and physcadellics open the mind until one takes too many and starts to burn it up.
The most widely used social drug in use is alcohol, and is the primary pathway to heroin use.
Regards
First it was the WTO protests, then Occupy Wall Street, followed by Black Lives Matter, and the Women’s March. Now we get Extinction Rebellion. Same cast of characters. Same billionaire funders. Different banners.
This group doesn’t wear the black masks, though some would be doing us a favor by doing so, and they don’t appear to be too violent. They just want to prevent people from going about their business, visiting a dying parent, etc.
Same social media.
What a surprise — she’s a psycho on top of a loon.
Drugs are bad.. mkay?
Another article recycled from the British tabloids. (*sigh*)
Another Hysteria clickbait article from the Out-There fringe.
Another Climate Alarm / Climate Panic article.
Meanwhile:
The largest weather and climate story of the year has been going for several days now.
Not a word about it here. You would not even know it is going on.
What’s that then?
A hurricane is nothing new, a same strength storm hit the florida area in 1936 or 1937, before that florida wasn’t as populated, so records are not so good. Taking in to consideration that the north/south flip is happening, as true north is over siberia right now, plus the earths magnetic field is really weak, add the weather from the south atlantic alimony and you have “climate change”… To put the weather change down to only CO2 is wrong… Plus if it was true about CO2, then why isn’t the world governments doing anything about it? The ultra rich nd politicians would have pulled some strings and found a solution for finding a replacement fuel for all our transport needs. Yet they have done nothing but tax all of us, the same tax money which has saved nobody… Also obama the “sea is rising” spokes man, has just bought a sea front house in marthas vin yard….
“The largest weather and climate story of the year has been going for several days now.
Not a word about it here. You would not even know it is going on.”
What’s that? A hurricane hitting Florida? Gee, that’s never happened before.
Humans cannot control the formation or dissipation of clouds.
Humans cannot make it rain when they desire to end a drought.
Humans cannot make it snow from the atmosphere when that’s needed at ski resorts.
Humans cannot control the timing or paths of tornadoes or lightning storms.
Humans cannot accurately predict the path of hurricanes more the 48 hours into the future.
Humans cannot accurately and consistently (i.e., within a scatter-range better than 3:1) predict future “global warming.”
Yet certain humans have the hubris to call for all humans to fight climate change.
Go figure.
Never saw a power plant cooling tower in operation.
Never saw an agricultural scale irrigation system.
Never enjoyed a day on the slopes. {Hmmm…. I wonder what those strange “gun” things do?}
1. Clouds, as the term is commonly used in climate science, are distinctly different from steam exhaust plumes . . . and even so I’m sure that humans do not control the directions or dissipations of any cooling tower steam plumes. Maybe I’ve been misinformed.
2. Rain, as the term is commonly used in climate science, is distinctly different from water irrigation of crops. Again, maybe I’ve been misinformed . . . if so, please cite one single case where the use of irrigation changed the CLIMATE or WEATHER that was causing drought conditions over a large geographical area.
3. Those strange “gun” things at ski resorts shoot water into cold air, whereupon it rapidly freezes into tiny ice pellets (aka “man-made snow”). Trust me, the character of that stuff—even though one can ski upon it—does not have the physical characteristics, nor beautiful delicate hexagonal symmetry of natural snow crystals. By the way, I was specific to call out “snow from the air” so that thinking people would not even consider “snow making equipment” . . . but I obviously was too optimistic in using that phrasing to cover all WUWT comment readers.
Why did you stop at only three?
Idiots rarely understand much of anything.
You would be more successful talking to the the squirrels.
TonyL
None of your examples line up with his statements.
None of your examples take place in the atmosphere at the level he was concerned with.
Irrigation is not rain.
Ski slope man-made snow is not snow from the sky.
Cooling tower plume is not clouds in the sky.
You thought you were being smart, but instead you were just being a smart-..s.
I met a lot like you when I was in college.
“….The movement has three demands for the UK Government: to declare a climate and ecological emergency; to act to halt biodiversity loss…..”
Well then they should be opposing all those wind turbines in the U.K. Certainly they should realize that those contraptions are killing the avian portion of that biodiversity that they care so much about, shouldn’t they? But when one of your founding leaders does psychedelic drugs, realizing this may be beyond their intellectual capacity.