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What’s so controversial about microdosing?
The incredible mainstream press microdosing has received has managed to avoid many discussions.
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I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study. It freed me from a childhood of abuse.
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy gave me the ability to feel compassion and empathy for myself.
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Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. An Interview with Iker Puente on Holotropic Breathwork
Holotropic Breathwork is not just a breath technique. It was conceived as a non-drug way of accessing non-ordinary states of consciousness.
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How Psychedelic Science Privileges Some, Neglects Others, and Limits Us All
There is an urgent need for cultural humility in psychedelic science in order to prevent it from falling into the same limiting, and often unethical, traps that we see in Western science and medicine.
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Psychedelic cluster busting headache medication saves me. And it’s completely illegal
Cluster headaches to me feel like someone has my eyeball in their fist, steadily putting more and more pressure on it until it threatens to pop like a grape.
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The first time I ate mushrooms a Papua New Guinea shaman showed up
We locked eyes for what felt like an eternity…like he and I had done this many times before.
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10 Reasons to End the War on Drugs and the War on Sex Workers
Just as the drug war makes drug-taking more dangerous and disproportionately affects the most vulnerable, the War on Sex Workers makes sex work more dangerous too. Here are 10 reasons ending the War on Sex Workers makes as much sense as ending the War on Drugs.
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Eight Things to Do After You’ve Taken Psychedelics
Eight tips for after the medicine is over.
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Meet the professor who self-administered 73 high-dose LSD sessions
I chose to learn Grof’s methods for working therapeutically with LSD and use them in my private life to systematically explore my own mind and the mind of the universe as deeply as possible—73 high-dose sessions over 20 years.
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You’ve had a life-changing experience with psychedelics. Do you tell your kids?
“Did you ever pick mushrooms off of cow poop when you were biking in Hawaii?” I ask her. “Actually, yes,” she admitted. I take advantage of the ease at which a conversation like this flows with my mom.
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2001: A Psychedelic Odyssey
One tagline for the movie was “the ultimate trip,” so clearly Kubrick, or at least the film’s marketing team, were very aware of the psychedelic implications of the film.
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Of Molecules and Minds: The Science of Ayahuasca
There’s a beauty and sense of wonder that comes from knowing how the world works, and the nature of the psychedelic experience dovetails almost perfectly with that awareness.