Could you imagine what would take place if other practices like meditation, yoga, painting, or dancing were made illegal?
Exploring entheogenic and psychedelic potentials
(English) Ego death is when your subjective identity completely dissolves, and is a common phenomenon in high dose psychedelic sessions. The following is a personal account of one of the most terrifying and significant ego deaths I have had the chance to
Can you imagine what psychedelic data experiences look like? Ever wondered if illegal drugs are actually better for you than legal ones? (Some of you may have even performed copious independent studies!) With the increase in data about the harmful
In the past few decades, the shamanistic and religious use of visionary plants and fungi has been progressively more available to the Western seeker. Within this equation, we find phenomena such as the international expansion of the Brazilian ayahuasca churches, Westerners
In his book Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution, Terence McKenna crafts his carefully thought out theory proposing that our sub-human primate ancestors consumed psilocybin
To understand research in the field of psychedelic medicine, it is necessary to define the terms used. The history of uninformed attack on mind-expanding substances in the 1970s resulted in the use of terminology with negative connotations. We compare the
When we perceive the Earth as an organism—as an interconnected, holistic, evolving system—entheogens, the natural psychedelics, or ecodelics, can be seen as emergent properties arising from the relationships between the plants, fungi, and animal kingdoms, the three big domains of
Cluster headaches also known as “ice pick” or “suicide headaches” are known medically as the most pain that a human being can endure. The reason they are called clusters headaches are because they come in patterns or a cluster of
Ten years ago my jaw unbuckled while listening to a friend recount the narrative of his birth. It was the late 70’s, and so, naturally, as his mother’s belly began contracting, she placed a hit of acid on her tongue
Psychoactive sacraments have helped us experience the divine since the first stirrings of religion at the dawn of human consciousness. They were involved at the “very origin of humankind’s religious cognition, the awareness that there was a spiritual dimension to
Recently I had the opportunity to talk on a popular Israeli TV show about the practice of micro-dosing on LSD. I was invited to the program as an expert on psychedelics, yet at a certain point in our conversation one