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This article is a more serious follow up to Take the Red Pill—Trumpocalypse Reveals that you Live in a Simulated Matrix The red vs. black font is a faulty html artifact of some sort we’re trying to fix. 

This article is a follow up to Take the Red Pill and will discuss who or what the Archons or matrix masters might actually be and also my methods of inquiry.

  I grew up in a highly intellectual family with both parents trained in scientific methodology and critical thinking.  Sometime during adolescence, I realized that probing into the world with such left-hemisphere weighted tools was not going to be sufficient for me.

To paraphrase the famous quote (attributed variously to Haldane or Eddington) I knew that the cosmos was not only stranger than people thought, but stranger than anyone could think. For my vision not to keep hitting walls I knew I had to blend intuition, imagination and critical thinking. Although the terms “skeptic” and “skeptical” have been co-opted by debunkers who are true believers in negative absolutisms, the skeptics were originally a school of Greek philosophers who believed that their powers of observation and thinking were enhanced by not arriving at conclusions.

The true skeptical approach is probably the wisest approach if you want to go down rabbit holes and not get tricked. If you already think you know the answer, confirmation bias and the trickster aspect of the unconscious will help you to be a naive true believer. As Terence McKenna pointed out, those who say the most usually know the least. In Ufology, for example, the people who have the deepest insight have not come to fixed conclusions about who the visitors really are, while those who know the least can tell you the names of everyone on the Pleiadian High Council.  In paranormal research, for example, if something paranormal occurs—I predict keys will fall off a table in 5 seconds and they do—it is almost impossible to say what paranormal thing occurred. Did I do it with telekinesis? Was it clairvoyant foreseeing that in the near future some other force would cause the keys to fall off? Did I use mind pressure to cause someone else with telekinetic power to cause the keys to fall off? (and we can keep populating the list) Similarly, the Trumpocalypse has weird patterning suggestive of something paranormal at work, but there are multiple explanations and we can’t fully falsify or exclusively credit any of them. But we also can’t deny the weirdness, and that the weirdness indicates another level than conventional causality.  For example, bracketing the Orlando shooting were two other bizarre, dark occurrences in Orlando, each of them leading national news and all occurring within a few days. (I wrote about that here: The Orlando Shooting—Part of a Window Zone of Evil )Bizarre and often fatal constellations of events often surround movies that powerfully evoke occult darkness  (wrote about that here—note this and most of the “articles” I link here are also in  Youtube and podcast form so you can listen as well as read— The Batman Shootings and Crossover Effects).

There are different ways one can go down rabbit holes. Jung felt that if you sought to explore the unconscious without having a strong moral stance you would likely be destroyed. Tribal shamans don’t travel into the hidden realms to have a psychedelic thrill ride. They know they are entering dangerous domains and usually do so for the purpose of healing an ailing person. They generally try to get in and out as quickly and safely as they can. One can try to plunge into a rabbit hole in a space suit bristling with sensors, trying to remain objective while your mind is getting blown. One can plunge in with a tie-dye shirt and a hundred tabs of acid in your gut and get perma-fried. One can plunge in for narcissistic or thrill-seeking purposes and get possessed and inflated by the highly energetic and trickster nature of the unconscious so that you emerge as a demented prophet, charlatan or abusive guru on a self-serving messianic mission to spread your psychic contagion.

I employ different balances of thinking and intuition during different rabbit hole excursions, and also use different blends of right and left hemisphere tools when I report back on what I have encountered. Sometimes I will emphasize critical thinking and the scholarly voice such as in my book Crossing the Event Horizon—Human Metamorphosis and the Singularity Archetype, while other times I may use a more surreal approach. Sometimes I’ve found myself switching midstream. For example, I wanted to look behind the curtain into the nature of money and started out in analytical mode for a few paragraphs and then got pulled by the muse into an increasing surreal vision/rant: Green Energy Vortex .

If you check my section on Reality Sandwich you’ll see I’ve written seventeen articles so far on the 2016 election—a few are soberly analytical and journalistic, but more of them involve sarcasm and surreality. I think they’ve been weighted toward the surreal because even before Trump won the nomination I sensed weirdness erupting from the collective unconscious.

Sometimes it is better to enter rabbit holes unencumbered by facts, scientific methodology, journalistic responsibility and other such tools or affectations of objectivity. When it is not morally hazardous, I sometimes employ a chaos magic method I call interpretive magic. I use mythologizing interpretive latitude to creating meaning and motivation out of things and events a materialist would explain via randomness and mechanical causality. (see Interpretive Magic ) In other cases, such an approach would be morally unacceptable. For example, if I were a juror on a murder trial then facts, rigorous reality testing, rules of evidence, chains of custody and other such grounded and concrete tools must take precedence, while right hemispheric tools like free-associative thinking, interpretative latitude and mythologizing would be irresponsible methods.

Where it is does not appear to be morally hazardous, however, I like to sometimes blur the line between the factual and the imaginal. This line is a permeable membrane anyway, and when we are looking into weirdness, and there is a lot of weirdness in human affairs, we are looking at phenomena where various lines— especially the line between the inner psychic world and the outer world of physical events is blurred in the phenomena itself. The Trumpocalypse is a zone of heightened weirdness and I’ve tried to probe into it with both my astronaut suit and my festival clothes. So, in Take the Red Pill, I was letting the muse pull me into a rabbit hole, and I used humor and other means to blur the line between rational assertion and surrealized associations.

The paranormal, as my friend George Hansen discusses in his seminal book, The Trickster and the Paranormal, is governed by the trickster archetype, and so often the paranormal tricks and possesses people who seek to investigate it, turning seekers into rubes and charlatans. Pretensions of high objectivity seem to bait trickster forces while I find that by consciously engaging a bit of trickster methodology myself can sometimes allow me to proceed further down a particular rabbit hole.

To read more about my approach to reality testing and paranormal/occult research see: Reality Testing is Politically Incorrect and Carnival 2012—the 2012 Phenomenon and the 22 Pitfalls and Blindspots of Esoteric Research.

So, now that I’ve given a thumbnail explanation of my highly variable methods, I will put on a very informal scholarly outfit for a little bit, playa dust carefully vacuumed from the tweed jacket with elbow patches, to talk as sensibly as I can for a few paragraphs about who the archons or matrix masters might be.

First, we should discard what I call the single-correct-diagnosis fallacy where we assume that there is only one objectively true  explanation of every phenomenon.  We live in a novelty creating, incredibly varied and complex cosmos. Look at the fantastic variety of forms just in the micro and marcro biological realm of carbon-based life. When we remove the need for organic chemistry and consider life based on zeros and ones and various other subtler, more etherealized and plastic substrates—the thought-responsive, ideoplastic realms of the imaginal, the spirit world, the dream time, etc.—then the cryptozoology of lifeforms inhabiting such realms should be expected to be exponentially more varied and weird than carbon-based organisms.  Consider how large would be the encyclopedia of all dream creatures for example. So, when we look at the hidden causes of Trumpocalypse, we are more like to find a multitude of agents and agencies than say an individual ADD archon boy behind a control panel.  

One general possibility, close to the perspective I adopted in Take the Red Pill, is that there are hidden species above us on the food chain that are using us as harvest/experiment/entertainment.  Visionaries and experiencers from many cultures and periods give testimony to there being hidden species interpenetrating the human domain and much of the testimony points toward parasitic species.

You can find my full collection of writings about what I call “mind parasites” in the mind parasite category of zaporacle.com.

There are two articles that relate closely to gnostic texts about the Archons: Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites and A Gnostic View of Mind Parasites .

I’ll just make a few quick points to put the idea of hidden species in a rational perspective.

1.   Wherever we find life we find parasites, predators and symbionts. These are classic relationships of energetic transaction.

2.  It is possible for people who regard themselves as well-informed to fail to notice an entire dimension of life.

3.  When a culture, such as that of scientific materialism, ignores a vast body of human testimony, that culture is in danger. For example, Western culture ignored or denied testimony about child abuse until recently. You should neither accept all testimony at face value, nor dismiss or superficially explain it away. The job of science, and other methods of inquiry, is to investigate the unexplained, not explain the uninvestigated.

Here is an excerpt from introductory essay on this subject, Mind Parasites, Energy Parasites and Vampires :

Not too long ago, not much more than three hundred years, our species was completely clueless about the microbiological realm. It was not until 1674 that a Danish shopkeeper developed the first microscope capable of resolving protozoa. Surgeons would wash their hands after surgery, but not before. Imagine if anyone had claimed that there were these incredibly tiny animals, too small to be seen, that were major players in human destiny. Imagine if they claimed that there wasn’t just one kind, but a whole cryptozoology of millions of strange species, fantastically varied, of both plant and animal. Imagine if they further claimed that our bodies were actually made up of a cooperative colony of a sixty trillion such animals! Anybody making such fantastical claims would have been condemned to a lunatic asylum or burned at the stake.

Presently, in the West, we have a blind spot in our awareness as huge as the species-wide blind spot we had for most of our existence about the microbiological realm. Unlike Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and what would be common knowledge to any tribal Shaman, we are blind to organisms that exist on the energetic plane. Dr. Samuel Sagan is a medical doctor who has researched this subject and written a book entitled, ENTITIES: Parasites of the Body of Energy (Read my review of this book: Energy Parasites—the Sagan View ) He’s part of a school in Australia that a friend of mine attended and spoke highly of, though I know next to nothing about it. In an excerpt available on the website clairvision.org, Dr. Sagan writes:

The topic is both old and new. Old, because in all traditions and folklores of the earth, one finds references to spirits and non-physical beings which can interfere with human beings. Thus Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, is divided into eight sections, one of which is entirely devoted to the study of bhutas, or entities, their influence on health and sanity, and the ways one can get rid of them. This places bhuta-vidya, or ‘science of entities’, on the same level as surgery or gynecology. If we look at traditional Chinese medicine, we find that in acupuncture, among the 361 points of the 14 main meridians, 17 have the word Kuei (disincarnate spirit) as part of their main or secondary name.

Call them spirits, incubi and the succubi, they have as many names as there are cultures and languages, but they have been widely recognized by everybody except us. Disincarnate organisms are far more generally recognized than the microbiological realm ever was until the invention of the microscope. And there isn’t just one type of course, but a fantastically varied cryptozoology of parasites, predators, and symbionts. Everywhere that we find life, we find endless variations on those classic energetic relationships—parasitism, predation, and symbiosis. As the alchemists put it, “As above, so below.” As it is on the mircrobiological plane, so it also is on the energetic plane.

If there are organisms on the energetic plane, we should expect to find many highly evolved species of parasites. And what every parasite is looking for is a host with a rich deposit of energy—like the warm-blooded mammals, which attract female mosquitoes that will use them to fertilize their eggs and complete their life cycle. What is the richest deposit of organic energy that we know of? This would have to be human psychic energy/sexual chi—the energy that dominates this planet.

So, yes I do believe it is possible that there are “Archons” of some sort or of many sorts who may be manipulating the human domain for various purposes.

An overlapping possibility is that we may be living in a simulated reality created by hidden entities or forces. Read the wiki: Simulated Reality. The movie, The Matrix, which so greatly amplified the simulated reality possibility in collective consciousness, was inspired by Gnosticism.

Since I’m not a materialist, I don’t find the possibility that we are living in a simulated reality to be particularly disconcerting. In a deleted scene from the fantasy epic I am writing, Parallel Journeys, one character asks another what does anything matter if we are living in a simulation. The other responds:

I think it matters. Even if it is a simulation. There are physicists publishing papers about the possibility that we are living in a quantum computer simulation. But I don’t think it matters that much what we’re made of—probability waves, superstrings, quantum-computer -generated matrix source code. It’s all just the stuff that dreams are made of. And dreams are as real as anything else. Anything that exists is real. Any dream you have ever had, any thought, or image or fantasy that flits through your mind has a factual existence. You thought of that particular thing and no other. The history of the unfolding of the multiverse has to include the fact that you had that particular thought at that moment. If we are composed of zeros and ones generated by alien quantum computers, then the pattern of zeros and ones is real. A simulation is as real as anything else because it exists . . . What also feels real to me is that things we do have moral consequences. Hair-splitting logic can’t prove anything, but I feel that we are both self-aware entities and how we act toward each other is more meaningful than what sort of stuff we are made of.”

Finally, I want to briefly discuss a matrix creating force that I am not skeptical about because I know it exists. It is not, however,  mutually exclusive of the other possibilities mentioned.

A more potent force in generating human realities than the Archons (even if they do exist) are the archetypes. What Jung called the “collective unconscious” and the archetypes are an empirically proven reality.

 Excerpted from Crossing the Event Horizon—the Singularity Archetype and Human Metamorphosis:

Jung and his colleagues have provided us with definitive evidence of a collective unconscious. From this collective layer of the unconscious emerge the great, primordial images Jung referred to as the “archetypes.” Archetypes are “innate universal psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge.”  Across cultures and periods we find endless variations of these archetypes, such as the Self, Persona, Shadow, Hero, Great Mother, Trickster, Devil, etc. The archetypes may manifest in anyone but often show up most vividly in the fertile psyches of artists, poets, mystics, writers, shamans and prophets. Through such individuals the archetypes become myths and diffuse throughout a culture. Edward Edinger, a Jungian analyst who wrote eloquently about the nature of archetypes, points out that although we can study archetypes as patterns, they are also living, dynamic agencies.

 Donald Trump is a classic personification of the trickster archetype. The trickster is transgressive and violates expected boundaries and hierarchies. Tricksters are great at getting attention and are not bound by facts or logic. Archetypes possess enormous primordial energy, so someone possessed by an archetype may be imbued with uncanny charisma and messianic zeal. They often experience enormous ego inflation. They may also be surrounded by a “reality distortion field” with heightened synchronicities including synchronistic names (see Jung’s name synchronicity theory ).

The archetypes and the collective unconscious are a super-potent reality generating force shaping human personalities and culture. Jung in his book, Flying Saucers a Modern Myth of Things seen in the Sky wondered if the UFOs might not be “physical exteriorizations of the collective unconscious” (see the ufology chapter in my book).

In the classic 1956 science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, an advanced alien species called the Krell were destroyed by a technology they created to enhance their minds. The device also amplified their unconscious minds and unleashed monsters from the Id. If you substitute the collective unconscious for the Krell hardware you can easily explain the 2016 election and ensuing Trumpocalypse. You don’t need Krell technology, Archons or simulated realities to explain eruptions of weirdness into the phenomenal world, but that does not discount them either.

The conventional view of the Archons, or other matrix masters, does tend to be rather anthropomorphizing (egos with manipulative agendas).  It is quite similar to the conspiracy view of human affairs (a view that Terrence McKenna referred to as “epistemological cartoons” see my Youtube Problems with the Conspiratist World View). Obviously, there are conspiracies, but what Terence and I are criticizing is the idea that any group of human conspirators can control the world, which Terence describes as “like trying to control a dream.” Any informed person with intact reality testing ought to able to observe that we live in a world of competing spheres of power, not one run by a single power center. The Archon variation merely locates the main conspirators off-stage and allows them to be non-human. This does not mean it is wrong, just that we need to be extra wary about projection when our explanatory model looks anthropomorphic.

The collective unconscious is a matrix, and its ability to manifest itself in the human domain is massively evidenced and empirically proven. While other exotic forces, entities and levels of reality are likely also in play, we should begin by recognizing the highly permeable membrane between psyche and the realm of outer phenomena. Everything economic, war, manmade environmental destruction and Trumpocalypse are products of psyche. 

As Jung put it,

“There is no hydrogen bomb in nature. That is all man’s doing. We are the great danger. Psyche is the great danger.”

As a charcter in the movie Dazed and Confused put it,

We’re the aliens man, we’re the savages.”

When we gaze into the nuclear depths of the Trumpocalypse we may find that psyche is the matrix master and that the Archons exist, and are to be found in our own hidden depths. 

For the most sophisticated and comprehensive view of the paranormal I’ve encountered in a single volume I highly recommend Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained by my friend Jeffrey Kripal and Whitley Streiber.

Supplement:

In November 2016, a clip from an episode of the 1950s western television series Trackdown was published to YouTube, along with the claim that it “predicted Donald Trump” by featuring a snake oil salesman character named “Trump” who claimed that only he could prevent the end of the world … by building a wall around the town.” Snopes judged the claim to be true.
 
The television series Trackdown really did produce an episode featuring a “Trump” character who came to town claiming that only he could prevent the end of the world by building a wall (and also sold special force propelling umbrellas to deflect meteorites). The episode (S1, E30) aired on CBS in 1958 and was titled “The End of the World,” featuring actor Lawrence Dobkin playing the role of “Walter Trump.” A synopsis of the episode from the Classic TV Archivereads as follows:

Walter Trump, a confidence man, puts on a long robe and holds a tent meeting in the town of Talpa. He tells the townspeople that a cosmic explosion will rain fire on the town and that he is the only one that can save them from death. Ranger Hoby Gilman attempts to prove Trump is a fraud.

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How Much Does LSD Cost? When shopping around for that magical psychedelic substance, there can be many uncertainties when new to buying LSD. You may be wondering how much does LSD cost? In this article, we will discuss what to expect when purchasing LSD on the black market, what forms LSD is sold in, and the standard breakdown of buying LSD in quantity.   Navy Use of LSD on the Dark Web The dark web is increasingly popular for purchasing illegal substances. The US Navy has now noticed this trend with their staff. Read to learn more.   Having Sex on LSD: What You Need to Know Can you have sex on LSD? Read our guide to learn everything about sex on acid, from lowered inhibitions to LSD users quotes on sex while tripping.   A Drug That Switches off an LSD Trip A pharmaceutical company is developing an “off-switch” drug for an LSD trip, in the case that a bad trip can happen. Some would say there is no such thing.   Queen of Hearts: An Interview with Liz Elliot on Tim Leary and LSD The history of psychedelia, particularly the British experience, has been almost totally written by men. Of the women involved, especially those who were in the thick of it, little has been written either by or about them. A notable exception is Liz Elliot.   LSD Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety LSD, Lysergic acid diethylamide, or just acid is one of the most important psychedelics ever discovered. What did history teach us?   Microdosing LSD & Common Dosage Explained Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing LSD.   LSD Resources Curious to learn more about LSD? This guide includes comprehensive LSD resources containing books, studies and more.   LSD as a Spiritual Aid There is common consent that the evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. From the described process of how consciousness originates and develops, it becomes evident that its growth depends on its faculty of perception. Therefore every means of improving this faculty should be used.   Legendary LSD Blotter Art: A Hidden Craftsmanship Have you ever heard of LSD blotter art? Explore the trippy world of LSD art and some of the top artists of LSD blotter art.   LSD and Exercise: Does it Work? LSD and exercise? Learn why high-performing athletes are taking hits of LSD to improve their overall potential.   Jan Bastiaans Treated Holocaust Survivors with LSD Dutch psychiatrist, Jan Bastiaans administered LSD-assisted therapy to survivors of the Holocaust. A true war hero and pioneer of psychedelic-therapy.   LSD and Spiritual Awakening I give thanks for LSD, which provided the opening that led me to India in 1971 and brought me to Neem Karoli Baba, known as Maharajji. Maharajji is described by the Indians as a “knower of hearts.”   How LSD is Made: Everything You Need to Know Ever wonder how to make LSD? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how LSD is made.   How to Store LSD: Best Practices Learn the best way to store LSD, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long LSD lasts when stored.   Bicycle Day: The Discovery of LSD Every year on April 19th, psychonauts join forces to celebrate Bicycle Day. Learn about the famous day when Albert Hoffman first discovered the effects of LSD.   Cary Grant: A Hollywood Legend On LSD Cary Grant was a famous actor during the 1930’s-60’s But did you know Grant experimented with LSD? Read our guide to learn more.   Albert Hofmann: LSD — My Problem Child Learn about Albert Hofmann and his discovery of LSD, along with the story of Bicycle Day and why it marks a historic milestone.   Babies are High: What Does LSD Do To Your Brain What do LSD and babies have in common? Researchers at the Imperial College in London discover that an adult’s brain on LSD looks like a baby’s brain.   1P LSD: Effects, Benefits, Safety Explained 1P LSD is an analogue of LSD and homologue of ALD-25. Here is everything you want to know about 1P LSD and how it compares to LSD.   Francis Crick, DNA & LSD Type ‘Francis Crick LSD’ into Google, and the result will be 30,000 links. Many sites claim that Crick (one of the two men responsible for discovering the structure of DNA), was either under the influence of LSD at the time of his revelation or used the drug to help with his thought processes during his research. Is this true?   What Happens If You Overdose on LSD? A recent article presented three individuals who overdosed on LSD. Though the experience was unpleasant, the outcomes were remarkably positive.

The Ayahuasca Experience
Ayahuasca is both a medicine and a visionary aid. You can employ ayahuasca for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual repair, and you can engage with the power of ayahuasca for deeper insight and realization. If you consider attainment of knowledge in the broadest perspective, you can say that at all times, ayahuasca heals.

 

Trippy Talk: Meet Ayahuasca with Sitaramaya Sita and PlantTeachers
Sitaramaya Sita is a spiritual herbalist, pusangera, and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition.

 

The Therapeutic Value of Ayahuasca
My best description of the impact of ayahuasca is that it’s a rocket boost to psychospiritual growth and unfolding, my professional specialty during my thirty-five years of private practice.

 

Microdosing Ayahuasca: Common Dosage Explained
What is ayahuasca made of and what is considered a microdose? Explore insights with an experienced Peruvian brewmaster and learn more about this practice.

 

Ayahuasca Makes Neuron Babies in Your Brain
Researchers from Beckley/Sant Pau Research Program have shared the latest findings in their study on the effects of ayahuasca on neurogenesis.

 

The Fatimiya Sufi Order and Ayahuasca
In this interview, the founder of the Fatimiya Sufi Order,  N. Wahid Azal, discusses the history and uses of plant medicines in Islamic and pre-Islamic mystery schools.

 

Consideration Ayahuasca for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research indicates that ayahuasca mimics mechanisms of currently accepted treatments for PTSD. In order to understand the implications of ayahuasca treatment, we need to understand how PTSD develops.

 

Brainwaves on Ayahuasca: A Waking Dream State
In a study researchers shared discoveries showing ingredients found in Ayahuasca impact the brainwaves causing a “waking dream” state.

 

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a pro cannabis Peruvian Shaman.

 

Ayahuasca Retreat 101: Everything You Need to Know to Brave the Brew
Ayahuasca has been known to be a powerful medicinal substance for millennia. However, until recently, it was only found in the jungle. Word of its deeply healing and cleansing properties has begun to spread across the world as many modern, Western individuals are seeking spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. More ayahuasca retreat centers are emerging in the Amazon and worldwide to meet the demand.

 

Ayahuasca Helps with Grief
A new study published in psychopharmacology found that ayahuasca helped those suffering from the loss of a loved one up to a year after treatment.

 

Ayahuasca Benefits: Clinical Improvements for Six Months
Ayahuasca benefits can last six months according to studies. Read here to learn about the clinical improvements from drinking the brew.

 

Ayahuasca Culture: Indigenous, Western, And The Future
Ayahuasca has been use for generations in the Amazon. With the rise of retreats and the brew leaving the rainforest how is ayahuasca culture changing?

 

Ayahuasca Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
The Amazonian brew, Ayahuasca has a long history and wide use. Read our guide to learn all about the tea from its beginnings up to modern-day interest.

 

Ayahuasca and the Godhead: An Interview with Wahid Azal of the Fatimiya Sufi Order
Wahid Azal, a Sufi mystic of The Fatimiya Sufi Order and an Islamic scholar, talks about entheogens, Sufism, mythology, and metaphysics.

 

Ayahuasca and the Feminine: Women’s Roles, Healing, Retreats, and More
Ayahuasca is lovingly called “grandmother” or “mother” by many. Just how feminine is the brew? Read to learn all about women and ayahuasca.

What Is the Standard of Care for Ketamine Treatments?
Ketamine therapy is on the rise in light of its powerful results for treatment-resistant depression. But, what is the current standard of care for ketamine? Read to find out.

What Is Dissociation and How Does Ketamine Create It?
Dissociation can take on multiple forms. So, what is dissociation like and how does ketamine create it? Read to find out.

Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative
Curious about what it could feel like to have sex on a dissociate? Find out all the answers in our guide to sex on ketamine.

Special K: The Party Drug
Special K refers to Ketamine when used recreationally. Learn the trends as well as safety information around this substance.

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

Ketamine vs. Esketamine: 3 Important Differences Explained
Ketamine and esketamine are used to treat depression. But what’s the difference between them? Read to learn which one is right for you: ketamine vs. esketamine.

Guide to Ketamine Treatments: Understanding the New Approach
Ketamine is becoming more popular as more people are seeing its benefits. Is ketamine a fit? Read our guide for all you need to know about ketamine treatments.

Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders
Ketamine is becoming a promising treatment for various mental health conditions. Read to learn how individuals can use ketamine treatment for eating disorders.

Ketamine Resources, Studies, and Trusted Information
Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
How long does ketamine stay in your system? Are there lasting effects on your body? Read to discover the answers!

How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make Ketamine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how Ketamine is made.

Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
Fallout continues after Elijah McClain. Despite opposing recommendations from some city council, Colorado State Health panel recommends the continued use of ketamine by medics for those demonstrating “excited delirium” or “extreme agitation”.

Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
Learn about the different types of ketamine and what they are used for—and what type might be right for you. Read now to find out!

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to MDMA has everything you want to know about Ecstasy from how it was developed in 1912 to why it’s being studied today.

How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
Taking MDMA as a couple can lead to exciting experiences. Read here to learn how to get the most of of this love drug in your relationship.

Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing MDMA.

Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
MDMA is known as the love drug… Read our guide to learn all about sex on MDMA and why it is beginning to makes its way into couple’s therapy.

How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make cocaine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how cocaine is made.

A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
This guide covers what you need to know about Cocaine, including common effects and uses, legality, safety precautions and top trends today.

NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
The FDA approved a cocaine nasal spray called Numbrino, which has raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company, Lannett Company Inc., paid off the FDA..

The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a procannabis Peruvian Shaman.

CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
Modern science has already confirmed the efficacy of cannabis for most uses described in the ancient medical texts, but prohibitionists still claim that medical cannabis is “just a ruse.”

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