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Developing Integration of Visionary Experiences: A Future Without Integration
Recently, the concept of integration has become a hot topic in the context of the use of psychedelic substances, and particularly in the Western...
How Should Plant Medicines Be Regulated?
While many of us in the psychedelic community are clear that plant medicines shouldn’t be criminalized, there is less agreement regarding what might replace...
Peyote in the United States: Prisoner of War as the War...
Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small cactus of the Chihuahuan Desert that has a history of human use dating back at least 6,000 year....
Why Are Some Drugs Legal, and Others Illegal?
When Spaniards first arrived in the Americas, they encountered an array of mood altering substances, from tobacco, to chocolate, peyote, and ololiuqui. They debated...
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CULTURE
How Should Plant Medicines Be Regulated?
While many of us in the psychedelic community are clear that plant medicines shouldn’t be...
Peyote in the United States: Prisoner of War as the War Wanes
Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small cactus of the Chihuahuan Desert that has a history...
Why Are Some Drugs Legal, and Others Illegal?
When Spaniards first arrived in the Americas, they encountered an array of mood altering substances,...
Can People Really Die From Drinking Ayahuasca, as Announced in the Media?
The ayahuasca tourism industry has been built on and propelled by ayahuasca’s increasing popularity as...
Is Ayahuasca Really Disappearing?
At the April 2017 Psychedelic Science Conference in Oakland, I heard more than a few...
SPIRITUALITY
Developing Integration of Visionary Experiences: A Future Without Integration
Recently, the concept of integration has become a hot topic in the context of the...
The World’s Best Practices for Integrating Ayahuasca
Working with the Amazonian plant medicine ayahuasca presents enormous psycho-spiritual challenges. In my experience as...
My Experience as a Brazilian at a Santo Daime Retreat in the United States
It was 2016 when I got the news: I was going to the United States...
Why a Culture of Integration is Critical For the Modern Psychedelic Movement
The continued fragmentation of modern Western culture is driving us towards social isolation. However, humans...
Cultivating the Mind, Body & Spirit with Ayahuasca
This article is the second in a series on the psychology of ayahuasca. Click here...
SCIENCE
How Psychedelic Science Privileges Some, Neglects Others, and Limits Us All
Promises of psychedelic science include the opportunity to transform consciousness itself, to creatively generate new...
How the Amazonian Tea Ayahuasca Affects Mental Health
More and more people from around the globe are turning to ayahuasca, the Amazonian psychoactive...
Beyond Set and Setting: A New Understanding of Psychedelics & Healing
The concept of “set and setting” has been a guiding principle of psychedelic researchers, therapists,...
The Effects of Ayahuasca on the Ego
Ayahuasca is a medicine that has the power, in some people, to heal trauma, to...
The Therapeutic Potential of Ayahuasca
The core therapeutic issue for most of us is that we yearn to be loved...
