Psychedelics
Magic mushrooms can ease end-of-life distress. Federal law still blocks access.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXEKXENVySc Nothing stood out about the two-story white house, with its backyard playset, wrap-around porch, and evergreen topiaries. It could have been any other home in this part of semirural…
Can Psychedelics Help People Face Death?
In search of emotional healing and inner peace, Lisa joins a weekend psilocybin retreat with two other women also living with cancer. The retreat is guided by Heather A. Lee, a certified psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist…
‘Project Mind Control’ book documents MKUltra project
Project Mind Control tells the lurid tale of the CIA's attempts to discover the scientific principles that would allow people to control subjects' thoughts and actions. The author, University of Texas historian John…
The perils of viewing psilocybin strictly as psychiatric medication
The Scottsdale Research Institute (SRI) grows psilocybin mushrooms in Arizona with permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Late last month, the organization announced that it will use those mushrooms in a…
Graham St. John’s ‘Strange Attractor’ explores Terence McKenna’s life and ideas
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, by Graham St. John, The MIT Press, 548 pages, $35 A large crowd filled the Scottish Rite Temple in downtown Los Angeles to hear the man who first synthesized LSD…
Susannah Cahalan on ‘Acid Queen’ Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Rosemary Woodruff Leary is remembered—if she's remembered at all—as a muse, fugitive, and heavily indicted co-conspirator in Timothy Leary's psychedelic revolution of the 1960s and '70s. But her story is far…
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