In March of 1992, William S. Burroughs underwent an exorcism — a healing ceremony led by Diné shaman Melvin Betsellie. Allen Ginsberg was visiting at the time and sat in on the ceremony. What follows is transcribed excerpts of 16 hours of recorded conversation between Burroughs and Ginsberg after the ceremony.
This Year in Psychedelics – 2017
FDA designated MDMA as breakthrough therapy, marijuana prohibition turned 80, ketamine helps with treatment-resistant depression, microdosing increased productivity, the new psychedelic renaissance, ongoing psychedelic research, and more in this year’s update.
This Week in Psychedelics – 9.22.17
California officially calls on Feds to reclassify marijuana, ayahuasca afterglow—how post-trip mindfulness may play a part in treating depression, how Renaissance painting smoldered with a little known hallucinogen, and more in this week’s update.
This Week in Psychedelics – 7.14.17
Religious leaders get high on magic mushrooms ingredient – for science; Jeff Sessions wants to revive D.A.R.E.; the psychedelic renaissance owes its life to an open internet; ecstasy often doesn’t contain any MDMA, study shows; and more in this week’s update.
New Yorkers Process the Election Via Subway Post-It Note Therapy
Thousands of post-it notes are filling the subways of NY — and beyond — as a means of post-election catharsis.
This Week in Psychedelics – 1.8.16
The man who took LSD – and didn’t come down for 30 years, what’s actually in the ecstasy sold in your country, how the DEA profits off the war on drugs, kratom—an addict’s alternative—is found to be addictive itself, and more in this week’s update.
The Saturn/Neptune Dynamic in Astrology
With Saturn and Neptune entering into a long and powerful square, it’s a good time to reflect on the core ideas or principles of astrology.
In Defense of Homeopathy
Since its inception over 200 years ago, homeopathy has been the target of almost constant antipathy from the prevailing school of orthodox medicine, yet it thrives—all across the globe—for a number of very good reasons.
Free Will Astrology: Week of August 13
Here are this week’s horoscopes, handcrafted by working class muses in the United Snakes of Chronic Ecstasy.
Free Will Astrology: Week of May 14
Here are your horoscopes for the week, designed to stimulate your instinct for dissident compassion.
