Cosmic Consciousness, Transcendence and Dissociation
The distinction between dissociation and transcendence is not always easy to make. At Harvard in the early 1960s, we experimented with DMT. While most of us found the experience to be chaotic and dissociative, one of our visitors assumed a yoga posture and sat in deep meditative absorption for 40 minutes, thanked us and left. The ability to make sense of the experience would certainly be a function of having had some prior experiences of transcendent consciousness…
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.
Criminals and Researchers: Perspectives on the Necessity of Underground Research
It is my sincerest hope that we will see prohibitionist barriers to psychedelic research crumble, allowing a safer environment for non-sanctioned researchers to continue their important work. But, for the time being…
Say Know to Drugs
Dr. Ben Sessa’s new book, The Psychedelic Renaissance, is without doubt the best single source of information out there on everything having anything to do with the modern re-connection of science and culture to the psychedelic experience.
The State of Psychedelic Research: A Talk with Rick Doblin
Recently, I met Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Assocation of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), for my research on the role of set and setting in the psychedelic debate of the 1960s. In this interview, Doblin discusses the current state and future of scientific psychedelic research.
Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
Over the weekend of October 14-16, 2012, "Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics" — the longest-running
psychedelics conference in the United States — will convene in New York
City for its sixth year. In anticipation of this reunion of intellects,
I sat down for a conversation with Neal Goldsmith, the conference's
emcee and speaker curator.
MAPS Media
A flood of media coverage about the recent MAPS conference points to a shift in mainstream attitudes towards psychedelics.
