New Beginnings Require Old Wisdom 3.25.2015
These aren’t just new beginnings. They are new beginnings with an old story attached. We need to be extra careful to understand the history of what’s happening right now.
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Did ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ Get Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Right?
This post contains spoiler alerts for Nine Perfect Strangers Based on Liane Moriarty’s book, Nine Perfect Strangers, the show begins with nine strangers gathering to a small, exclusive retreat somewhere in California called Tranquillum, all with one thing on their minds: change. Although every visitor has had different life experiences, they’re drawn to the retreat …
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Your Guide on Psychedelic Shroom Tolerance
Tolerance can develop with a variety of substances, not just psychedelics. Caffeine, medicines, and even some supplements can cause the body to become accustomed to their effects, which causes people to increase dosages. To get the most out of your psilocybin trip, it’s important to learn how to avoid magic mushroom tolerance and how to …
Preventing Sexual Abuse In Psychedelic Therapy
In the battle against mental illness, clinical trials of psychedelic therapy are extremely promising. However, new research has shown a slew of ethical concerns around the use of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes. Sexual abuse between psychedelic therapists and clients is one of the most prominent — and potentially widespread — issues that have been highlighted …
Gentrification of Psychedelic Culture
As most of us know, the human race has been using psychedelics for centuries, and those original uses were rooted in spirituality, ritual, and medicine. The Babongo tribe of Gabon in Central Africa utilizes the bark of the iboga plant in Bwiti for rites of passage, communal events, and personal spiritual growth. Ayahuasca is used …
Top 5 Creative Activities You Can Enjoy on Psychedelics
Preparing for a psychedelic experience requires deciding what set, setting and dosage will be most conducive to your ideal trip. The right companions, nurturing environment and proper integration can all enhance anyone’s foray with psychedelics. If you are in need of inspiration, the following are the top 5 creative activities that you can enjoy on …
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Book Review: ‘This Is Your Mind on Plants’
Just as Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax speaks for the trees, writer, gardener and nature enthusiast Michael Pollan sheds light on the intersection of plants and the individuals and societies around them. His writing educates the reader on how the silent photosynthesizing majority influences and inspires their human counterparts. As 50 years of federally mandated drug …
Psychedelia in the Soviet Union
Thirty years on from the dissolution of the USSR and its orbital socialist states, the Western world clings tightly as ever to balm Cold War platitudes and beliefs about the drab daily existence forced upon millions of people behind the iron curtain. Though rough-hewn and tightly regimented even by our contemporary standards, was living in …
Is Kambo Nature’s Vaccine?
Vaccine (noun): a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. The ‘Herd Immunity’ / ‘Herd Mind’ and ‘Anti-Vax’ / ‘Pro-Safe Vax’ divide …
Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Which Side is More Creative?
Humans—more so than any other species—have transcended the baseline goals of survival, allowing for the blossoming of complex societies, innovative technologies and philosophical theorizations. But what makes humans—opposed to their closest primate relatives—so well equipped for creative advancements? The answer lies above the shoulders, inside the protective bone casing and within the bumpy contours and …
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