Magic Mushrooms in North America: Before the Wassons

I have no way of knowing if the mushrooms that my great-great grandfather was allegedly harvesting were P. cubensis. But could psilocybin have been known in North America prior to the publication of the Wassons’ article in Life Magazine in May of 1957?

The True Light Of Darkness

An exploration of the turbulent struggles involved in entheogenic shadow-work.

The Art and Science of Psilocybinetics

Seeking supernormal inspiration, I determined to visit the Royal Botanical Gardens and do some perceptual fieldwork there. This glorious plant sanctuary provides a wonderful opportunity to confront some of nature’s more exotic creations housed safely within Kew’s splendid Victorian greenhouses.

Magic Mushrooms and Brain Activity Revisited

Under materialism, consciousness is brain activity. When one finds substantially more consciousness correlating consistently with substantially less brain activity, one is forced to contemplate the possibility that the brain is somehow associated with filtering, constraining, or localizing consciousness, instead of generating it.

Interview with Armand Daigle, Author of Psychedelic Memoir ‘Thank Earth You’

Fed up with his 9-to-5 engineering job, Armand Daigle quit, joined a fledgling media production company, and wrote a memoir called Thank Earth You about his personal transformation. His story contains two incredible psychedelic experiences, one with mushrooms and one with ayahuasca, which propelled him to continue in his new direction.

Story: How Psilocybin Mushrooms Helped Me Overcome Depression

Reset.me has run a personal story submitted by Steve Male, a 49 businessman who found help to cure his depression through psilocybin mushrooms.

Researchers look for biological basis of mind expansion with psychedelics

It’s one thing to say that psychedelic mushrooms “open your mind,” but it’s another entirely to demonstrate its dream-like effects in a scientific study.

Psychedelics, Parapsychology and Exceptional Human Experiences

At the beginning of the 1950s the developed world began in earnest its psychedelic research era. Since then these profoundly mind-altering substances have been inextricably associated with paranormal experiences—such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and out-of-body experiences—by many of the researchers who have studied their effects. Currently however, virtually no research is being conducted in this area.

Boost Your Brain: Harnessing Neurogenesis

Neurogenesis is the birth of new neurons in the brain. There are a number of behavioral, environmental, pharmacological and biochemical factors that affect this process, many of which we have considerable power to influence.

The Experiment at La Chorrera

The story of Terence and Dennis McKenna in contemporary mass
consciousness is inextricably associated with the so-called "Experiment
at La Chorrera." We were children of the 60s lured by the passion to discover something truly
astonishing. Terence told the tale in True
Hallucinations. But until the publication of my recent book, few had
heard the story from my perspective.