by EmpathiCSubstanceS | May 3, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
Love is the AnswerAn Appreciation of Myron Stolaroff (August 20, 1920–January 6, 2013) JOHN HARRISON “There is a light that glows continuously in the universe. It is eternal, ever-present, and unending. This light is the source of life. It can be for each of us the...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 30, 2020 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Ayahuasca, Bipolar Disorder, Kambo
This isn’t the psychedelic you remember from college. It isn’t an eight-hour marathon experience tripping through the woods like Alice. It’s fast-acting, short-duration — sometimes lasting as briefly as seven minutes — and is a rocket-ship ride into the center of the...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 18, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
In philosophy of mind, panpsychism is the view that mind or a mind-like aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality. It has taken on a wide variety of forms. Contemporary academic proponents hold that sentience or subjective experience is ubiquitous,...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 15, 2020 | Addiction
Decades after LSD and ecstasy were banned, therapists are tuning in again November 16, 1938, Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist working at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, was attempting to create a stimulant when he synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) instead. The...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 13, 2020 | Psychedelic Medicine
The tide is turning in the battle to treat depression. Gradually, we are becoming more aware of the relative ineffectiveness of pharmaceutical interventions in cases of severe depression, and have developed a healthy suspicion of the involvement of ‘big pharma’ in...
