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An Empathetic Challenge for Western Culture
Western culture must embrace empathy and tolerance to help integrate the incoming psychedelic worldview-flips
Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs
An illusion involving a hidden thumb confounds capuchin and squirrel monkeys for the same reason it does humans -- it misdirects expected outcomes of actions they can carry out. However, marmosets have five equidistan...
Advanced brain imaging study hints at how DMT psychedelic alters perception of reality
Scientists have gleaned new insights into how psychedelics alter conscious experience via their action on brain activity.
Psychedelic Worldview Flips + Secular Society
Are we prepared for all the worldview flips that are about to happen with the Psychedelic Renaissance?
Choose Ketamine Complete Capital Raise to Expand Technology Platform
In a major milestone for mental health care, Austin-based Choose Your Horizon Inc., also known as Choose Ketamine, has announced the completion of its seed financing round. Led by Manifestations Capital in collaborati...
Putting the Pieces Together: Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Psychedelic Healing
Internal Family Systems therapy is a respectful and non-pathologizing style of psychotherapy that offers a unique way of navigating our inner landscapes. By recognizing that we all have different parts or sub-personal...
Psychedelic Therapists Will Not Save Us
An object lesson on what should not happen in the psychedelic chamber
How To Talk About Psychedelic Experiences In Your Blogs
Writing about psychedelic experiences is no small feat: psychedelic substances are often powerful and can produce incredible, life-altering insights. This guide will provide tips and advice to those seeking to blog ...
What are Penis Envy Mushrooms?
Questions about which strains of Psilocybe cubensis (magic mushrooms) are strongest have been around for as long as underground enthusiasts have been breeding new forms. For many years magic mushroom aficionados use...
EGA Garden States 2022
Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) runs Australia’s premiere psychedelic and plant-medicine conferences. So, when I was offered a ticket in exchange for helping copyedit & proofread the conference journal for EGA Gar...
Gut Feeling: Links Between LSD, Endocannabinoids, and the Microbiome
In the last 10 years, psychiatric interest in the use of psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD, has surged. A new study employed mice to examine how LSD could exert changes on the inflammatory response and the gut ...
Abuse Potential: Considerations for Rescheduling MDMA and Psychedelics
Can the meteoric rise of psychedelics and entactogens clear the legal hurdles of abuse potential assessment and rescheduling?
Many Trips, Diminishing Returns: Cross-Tolerance Between LSD and DOI
Psychedelic drugs like LSD powerfully alter consciousness and promote neural plasticity, but drug tolerance occurs rapidly following the first dose. Although the mechanisms that underlie psychedelic tolerance may over...
How To Stop A Psychedelic Trip: The Promise of Ketanserin
Psychedelic trips often unfold without issues, but what if a trip needs to be stopped? Drugs such as benzodiazepines and antipsychotics are recommended as rescue medications and have been around for decades. Can ketan...