Interview with Mitchel Gomez, Executive Director of Dancesafe, on the opioid crisis, the drug war, de-stigmatizing drug use and Dancesafe’s latest projects.
LSD / Science / Substance Guides / Substances
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?
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) on Taking Peyote
Long before Carlos Castaneda and Aldous Huxley there was … Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy). In 1928, the avant-garde playwright, novelist, dramatist, painter, philosopher and psychedelic pioneer wrote one of the first literary descriptions of a Peyote trip.
Wade Davis on the Popularization of Ayahuasca and the Climate Crisis
Wade Davis, anthropologist and best-selling author, known for his work among indigenous communities in the Amazon, has written on topics ranging from Haitian voodoo to our current climate crisis.
Synchronicity Hunting: An Interview with David Charles Plate
For twenty years David Charles Plate has explored the mysteries of synchronicity in films and music. Enlightened by his occult and cultural studies, David has brought light to a little understood area of human experience..
Numerology and Psychology
It is absurdly easy to dash off a list of sevens—the seven-day week, the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven sleepers. It even appears in show business—The Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Why seven?
Scapegoating: How the Shadow Hides in the Light
Scapegoating/shadow projecting is itself a violent act of self-mutilation.
Emergence of Sekhmet: Twelve Interviews
Sekhmet has reawakened, her devotees say, now when the world most needs the truth and justice Sekhmet represents. We were interested in finding out what Sekhmet’s devotees are experiencing, so we interviewed twelve devotees from around the world.
Formulating the Desired: Rituals and the Psychoanalytic Process
Human language is both a blessing and a curse. Nowhere is this so apparent as when one is talking about oneself or expressing what one wants in ritual.
