In a small study of adults with major depression, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that two doses of the psychedelic substance psilocybin, given with supportive psychotherapy, produced rapid and large reductions in depressive symptoms, with most participants...
Earlier this month, a student from Singapore tripping on shrooms in a Bali hotel jumped five floors to his death. The news recalled an incident from a year ago, when a 23-year old banker at Merrill Lynch had plunged 26 stories after eating some magic mushrooms. These...
And if so, does it matter? In a new book, philosopher Chris Letheby confronts the nature and implications of the mystical experiences people often have while taking psychedelics. There’s an “elephant in the room” of psychedelic science, according to an opinion...
DMT (N, N-Dimethyltryptamine) is an endogenous hallucinogen or drug, which means it’s a substance that’s common in living organisms like plants and can cause mind-altering side effects. Because DMT drug effects are often psychedelic and include symptoms like...
Is psychedelic capitalism a myth? The week I am writing this, author and psychedelic philanthropist Tim Ferriss poised a very direct question (via Twitter) to the public and various leaders in the psychedelic community, including Michael Pollan, Rick Doblin, and Robin...
Defining transpersonal psychology, exploring its history, and examining how it relates to psychedelic experiences. Transpersonal psychology, the branch of psychology that concerns itself with the study of spiritual experience and expanded states of consciousness, has...
