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#47 – Part Two: Right Wing Psychedelia
We continue our discussion about Brian Pace and Neşe Devenot’s recently published paper: “Right-Wing Psychedelia: Case Studies in Cultural Plasticity and Political Pluripotency”
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#46 – Part One: Right Wing Psychedelia
We discuss Brian Pace and Neşe Devenot’s recently published paper: “Right-Wing Psychedelia: Case Studies in Cultural Plasticity and Political Pluripotency”
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Power Tripping #5: House Full of Sh*t
What the hell is going on in this house full of shit? And where do we go from here? We don’t have answers, but we have ideas and plenty of questions. House Full of Sh*t was a montage of stories that illustrate a bigger picture. From the structural features of the psychedelic therapy marketplace, to
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Power Tripping #4: Bad Hug
Many people are familiar with MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s illegal human experimentation program, which involved psychedelics and resulted in torture techniques that have since been used at CIA black sites around the world. What if someone tried to tell you these techniques were, in fact, a novel therapy tha
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Power Tripping #3: I Am the Wolf
Michael Pollan, Tim Ferriss, Gabor Maté, and a number of other “thought leaders” have offered glowing endorsements of Françoise Bourzat and her approach to training psychedelic guides. However, amidst the wave of allegations and revelations about Bourzat, her husband Aharon Grossbard, and their trai
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Power Tripping #2: That’s an Old Story
The Psymposia team, discusses how the “Psychedelic Community” responded to T’s abuse of Lily in the Ecuadorian Amazon and her attempts to call attention to the wider issues around her experience. We recall our own experiences of Lily’s efforts dating back to 2012, and consider a number of individual
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Power Tripping #1: I See a Sh*tshow
Power Tripping is Psymposia’s weekly deep-dive into New York Magazine’s Cover Story: Power Trip podcast, co-produced with Psymposia.
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The Masters of Bad Trips
As proponents of psychedelics begin to grapple with legacies of abuse, it’s time to learn from victims themselves. Psymposia is co-producing an investigative podcast series, Power Trip, with New York Magazine.
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New Website Details Abuse Allegations Against German Psychedelic Practitioners
A new website — whoisjoeschraube.com — alleges that Joe Schraube and Miguel Delgado have taken advantage of positions of power and abused people under the influence of psychedelics.
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MAPS Canada’s Data Breach Foreshadows Corporadelic Future
As the psychedelic pharmaceutical industry increasingly prioritizes personal data extraction through mobile apps, wearables, and so-called “targeted” medicine, a recent data breach by former MAPS Canada Executive Director Mark Haden provides a warning about some of the possible consequences to the f
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DoubleBlind Claims Its Ad Was the ‘First-Ever’ U.S. Psychedelic Destigmatization Campaign — It Wasn’t
DoubleBlind claims its recently-unveiled New York City billboard is a lot of things, except what it actually is: a giant advertisement.
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Hamilton Morris Hired by Psilocybin Startup COMPASS Pathways, Ends “Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia” On Vice
Hamilton Morris, the creator of Vice’s “Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia,” will cease working with Vice on the show following the third season. He has joined psychedelic pharmaceutical corporation COMPASS Pathways as a chemistry consultant.