Unified Psychedelic Theory

Unified Psychedelic Theory: An Interview with Patrick Lundborg R.I.P.

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I was honored to be able to conduct this interview with my friend Patrick Lundborg, who recently passed away on June 11th, 2014. More than anything I think this interview shows what a brilliant, warm, and humorous soul he was, with an unprecedented passion for investigating altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics.

Benton Rooks: Your first major work, The Acid Archives, contains expansive reviews of 60’s psychedelic rock and was released in 2006 with considerably favorable reviews. Your new book Psychedelia is also highly acclaimed, and is now known as “the psychedelic bible”. It is one of the first truly “meta-psychedelic” texts, in that it attempts to cover all known etheogens, but also everything from Neoplatonism and Swedenborg to Philip K. Dick, EDM and cyberpunk. What inspired you to be so expansive in your inquiries, in regards to relating the psychedelic experience to history and culture, rather than just concentrating on psychedelics themselves? 

Patrick Lundborg:  The psychedelic experience and its offspring has always been more than just a drug and its effects to me. I think of it more as a way of life, sprouting tangents that affect what you do and who you are. So for that reason it seemed clear to me that whatever I wrote about Psychedelia, it would be fairly broad in subject. Back in 2010, when the ideas behind this book came together, I set some time aside to figure out what scope I was after and how it could be structured, before the actual writing began. One of my main principles is to avoid repeating the work of others and ‘make it new’ like Ezra Pound says. But this also requires you to know what others have done. Fortunately I had already spent more than 20 years studying the psychedelic canon, making notes and so on. There were still things I needed to catch up on, not least in anthropology and the recent flood of ayahuasca books. As you commit yourself to your reading and engage in a sort of private discussion with these works, you begin to see what areas are already crowded with dozens of writers and researchers. You may also begin to notice a number of topics where there seems to be a shortage of knowledge. A defensive response to this realization is to say “it can’t be very important, then…”. However, in a heterogenous field like Psychedelia, it’s equally possible that no one has had the opportunity to deal with these matters in the past. Obviously it is important, since it keeps popping up in your head!

While preparing the outline of the book, I came upon the idea to treat the psychedelic experience as not just a lifestyle, but a kind of philosophy in the classic sense of Spinoza or Schopenhauer; a paradigm through which other phenomena could be studied and discussed. Developing a psychedelic philosophy, other ideas related to psychedelic culture would surface, small and large. I discarded that which I felt was well-known, and concentrated on the prospects that made sense and had been poorly covered. An example might be the Utopianism that seems to emerge within any long-running psychedelic group, whether it’s Hesse’s “League” in the 1920s, or the back-to-nature hippie communes of the 1970s. The idea of Utopia forms an obvious part of the psychedelic enterprise, yet this was an angle that had only rarely been touched in the acidhead literature. So I read up on that aspect, talked to people who were experts, and added a chapter that discussed the psychedelic thrust towards Utopia, and the hows and whys of that.

Could you tell us about exploring the philosophical implications of what you call the “psychedelicist” and “Innerspace”, and unpack these terms for us a bit?

I do not wish to introduce new terms unless absolutely necessary, and when using familiar terms I usually reference the familiar meaning. By ‘Innerspace’ I mean the place you go when you’re on psychedelic drugs. Nocturnal dreams and tantric meditation have their innerspaces too, which may or may not overlap with hallucinogenic Innerspace. A parallel term is the ‘Otherworld’ of shamans; among tribes using entheogenic plants this realm would be quite close to the Westerner’s Innerspace. If someone wants to reference the world he enters when the neurotransmitters kick in as ‘Otherworld’, I personally prefer that over Terence McKenna’s ‘Hyperspace’, which sounds like something from an old video game. Those who believe that the trip realm is extra-psychic, meaning entirely outside one’s personal consciousness, may object to the intra-psychic implication of ‘Innerspace’.

The ‘psychedelicist’ is a person who explores psychedelic Innerspace. It is any person who has a serious interest in the psychedelic experience, which tends to be most people who ever try these compounds. There are some who drop acid a couple of times, have fun and enjoy it, and then move on with their lives. I’ve always been impressed by that; their inner lives must be very rich when they can so easily integrate what to most people is a major game-changer.

There are a couple of more terms that should be addressed for clarity’s sake. In the Psychedelia book I use the ‘entheogen’ term frequently, but like Ralph Metzner and others I’ve never understood what  was wrong with the fine old word ‘psychedelic’. On the contrary, ‘psychedelic’ is very well established and has a cool ring to it, and in recent  decades the accurate meaning of the word ‘psychedelic’ has been reclaimed, once the fools in media and marketing lost interest and moved on. I grew up in the 1970s and 80s, and among hip people ‘psychedelic’ always had a positive, mysterious ring to it, even if you were into punk rock or whatever. Hippies weren’t considered cool, but psychedelic drugs almost always were!

I respect the effort and thinking behind the launch of ‘entheogen’, and I find that term useful when referring to plant drugs specifically. I often refer to psilocybian mushrooms, or the chacruna bush or peyote cactus as ‘entheogenic’, but I never refer to LSD-25 as ‘entheogenic’, since it is a semi-synthetic lab drug. Terms like psycho-active and psycho-tropic and hallucinogenic work alright too. Linguistic variation is a necessity when writing a 500-page book. I like the term you suggested too, entheodelic, meaning the manifestation of the godhead inside, if I got it right?

But to me at least, the most important question of terminology concerns the minded presence that the psychedelicist may perceive in the tryptamine realm of Innerspace. What I mean by this is the Voice that you can hear on a solid dose of mushrooms, and which will also signal its presence on ayahuasca, but only rarely on LSD. To me this is among the most important of all identifiable phenomena in the psychedelic experience, as it not only offers communication for you to engage in, but typically also implies that it is, in fact, running the whole Innerspace show.  For some reason this is stronger expressed on the tryptamine psychedelics, and I know veteran acidheads who have never encountered it. Not all shroom-heads have felt this presence either, but it seems to be most common there. This cognitive anomaly is what Terence McKenna meant when he was talking about the Logos (see for example the Tree Of Knowledge pt 3 lectures for a clear explanation). Unless you have experienced it, his references may seem vague and mystifying. It seems clear to me that his basic method for acquiring psychedelic wisdom was to do big doses of psilocybin and then maintain long dialogues with this voice talking in his head, this Logos.

It’s important to understand that it’s not like a “thought” voice, but a very real-sounding, calm, mature voice speaking somehow both outside and inside your head. It comes across fairly similar to HAL 9000, the computer in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. In my Psychedelia book I refer to a study made of dozens of people who had this experience on psilocybin, and the overlap in their descriptions of the voice was remarkably consistent and similar to my own.  On ayahuasca the form of communication is more varied and not necessarily a dialogue, since instructions may come in various visionary forms, from forest queens or trios of angels or ghosts of elder shamans, but the presence of an alien, communicating spiritual force is as undeniable there as it is on shrooms. Having something else with you inside Innerspace will freak some people out, which is why I always advocate starting with minor doses of LSD before getting into the classic shamanic entheogens.

I don’t care for the word ‘Logos’, which carries with it all kinds of religious and philological baggage. I think McKenna liked it because it sounded like something out of Jung, who was a definite influence on him. But the Logos can mean anything from Heraclitus to John the Evangelist to various occult and alchemical systems, and it is simply stretched too thin reference-wise, to be useful in yet another context. It is also a little deceiving in the sense that the Logos is presumably the outpouring of truth, but even Terence himself stated that you needed to be skeptical and on your toes when receiving presumed wisdom from this talkative guest in your psychedelicized head. Sometimes the voice may just be testing you, you know? Sometimes it’s not really the voice, but one of its little assistants. And so on.

Like others I have found this tryptamine voice to be a useful, stimulating party in conversation, handling matters of both analysis and emotion in the manner of a patriarchic tribal elder. In my book I refer to this voice as the Overseer, which I think gives a good indication of its (as it seems) governing role in one’s spiritual development, and its personality as a mature, stern, but benevolent teacher. Now, who the Overseer actually ‘is’, and whether he represents some supra-conscious brain state reachable only on serotonergic hallucinogens, or actually speaks from another dimension, or if it is a mouthpiece for all knowledge of a genetic past hidden in your unidentified DNA, or some alien who has created your world in the way that humans create Sim City worlds… no one obviously knows. What we can do is to put on our phenomenological glasses and make the trek out into Innerspace, taking notes of all we see and hear, and bring it back to base-line. Slowly ideas will emerge, probably amazing ones. It seems to me that the Overseer should be viewed as vital to our inquiries into Innerspace, rather than some curiosity mentioned only by senior tryptamine heads.


Could you get into the historical background of the Lumber Island Acid Crew, what it is and how you first began to be involved with it? What impact has this art collective had on Psychedelia?

The Lumber Island Acid Crew is a story of its own, but clearly this Stockholm artist collective was and remains an important thing for me. In young adult-hood I think it is vital to find a group of peers to connect with, both socially and creatively. This will help you shed the skin of the less productive games of your teenage years and instead raise your eyes towards the long, wide-open road ahead for you and your own creative potential. When this process involves psychedelic drugs it becomes a particularly powerful experience, not just in terms of the intellectual and spiritual development you go through, but also the strong bonds that build up within your communal group. Having tripped a few times with someone means that you share a special relationship that will always be there, even if you drift apart. A psychedelic group that sticks together for years will take on an almost tribal nature, with its own aesthetics, language, behavioral codes, and so on. It’s held together by those shared trip moments of warmth and radiant beauty and transcendental love. You rarely talk about it—it’s simply there.

I feel that one of Timothy Leary’s more useful slogans is “Find your tribe”. In your late teens and early twenties, that is really what it’s about. Find your tribe—not the one you were forced into in high school, but the real one, the one that makes you grow rather than shrink. As I point out in the Psychedelia book, the communal impulse is very strong among psychedelicists, and given enough time it may develop into full-blown utopianism, or eschatology if the vibes go wrong. The collective trip was there already at the epicenter of our alternative Western culture, with the psychedelic communion at Eleusis. And you can find it described most beautifully in Hesse’s “Journey To The East”, in which he as an ageing man mourns the loss of the magic circle of artist friends and spiritual explorers that he belonged to in younger days. Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters are another example with their own unique twist. Or take the 13th Floor Elevators, whose songs “Slip Inside This House” and “Dust” describe the psychedelic tribal lifestyle in an unsurpassed way. Our local gathering here in Stockholm still exists, and almost all of those who got involved in the mid-1980s are highly active in various creative and curatorial projects. I came up with the name the Lumber Island Acid Crew, by the way. “Lumber Island” is a direct translation of “Stock-holm”.

While much attention is given to LSD in your book in the context of psychedelic history, in the later chapters you become particularly focused on the tryptamines as contained in 5-MeO-DMT, Ayahuasca, DMT, and Psilocybin. Could you tell us a bit about the differences and similarities between these profound spiritual medicines, in your experience? What makes the tryptamine phenomena so particularly mysterious? 

There are many dozens of pages and even whole chapters about LSD and mescaline/peyote in my book, but I can accept a reading that sees an orientation towards the tryptamine drugs in the overall scope. One reason for this is historical. The pre-WWII psychedelia of the West was exclusively about mescaline, while the 1950s and 60s were all about LSD, so these two drugs are well established since long ago. Moving in to more recent times, there is an underground shift towards tryptamines that began with the mushroom research of the 1970s, and received a considerable boost with the DMT and ayahuasca waves of the past few decades. Although this tryptamine buzz has been going since the late ‘80s, there is still much to research and write about, which you can’t really say about LSD, where the amount of clinical research performed during pre-legislation days was truly massive. I don’t think people today realize how deep the psychiatric community was involved in the ‘50s research into LSD; it was a truly big deal, going hand in hand with the serotonin research. There was also, thanks to Stan Grof, Jean Houston, the Harvard trio and others, a huge rounding-up of case histories and trip reports within the LSD field. And of course, the socio-cultural connection of the ‘60s acid wave has been hammered home endlessly by baby-boomers. So, in short, there isn’t really much left to write about regarding LSD, at least not until we see some significant progress in neurochemical brain research. As for the tryptamines, on the other hand, there are plenty of white spots on the research map, both in clinical, socio-cultural and anecdotal terms. Hopefully my book addresses some of these.

The other and more important reason why there’s so much about the tryptamines in the Psychedelia book is wholly subjective and experiential: the psychoactive properties of psilocybin and dimethyl­tryptamine are just so damn fascinating! You chew down a few pairs of Cubensis or drink 2 cups of ayahuasca, and go into a realm of Innerspace that is so weird that it makes LSD seem almost normal. There is the sense that something else is in there, in the tryptamine Innerspace. Not just one thing, but several things, maybe a whole carnival. But most of all, as I mentioned above, was this presence of an Overseer. And I am amazed by the intelligence and diligence of this ‘master of ceremonies’, who can produce the most beautiful metaphors you ever saw, multi-layered creations like you could only find in  Shakespeare, and it’s important stuff most of it—not always, but most of it seems presented with meaningful intent.

So at least to me, the tryptamines expand the psychedelic polygon that I was familiar with from LSD with some new angles and planes, and it’s all utterly fascinating. For me it’s been mostly about ayahuasca, which has a trip signature which fits me, despite the nausea. I have to work hard to truly ‘see’ the ideas as my visual imagination is rather poor, but when I do catch them they can keep me busy for months afterwards. The mushroom does much of the same, plus it has the special Voice effect that I don’t receive on the DMT brew, but in all I feel slightly more comfortable in the yagé realm of innerspace than in the psilocybin realm. The mushroom can be quite intimidating, and I find it amusing that many Western authorities consider it a slightly weaker hallucinogen—except for pure DMT, I think that high-dose psilocybin may be the most challenging psychedelic trip of the big ones. Odd as it may seem, after all we’ve been through with acid, with all those billions of trips and socio-cultural upheaval, the LSD-oriented phase of modern Psychedelia may have been just an introduction to the deeper and more rewarding returns that await with the major tryptamines. The psychedelic game hasn’t been revived, it has been upgraded.

One of the things I loved about Psychedelia is that it does not attempt to justify the psychedelic experience through the supposedly more “natural” forms of spiritual paths such as yoga and meditation. You really dismantle the false dichotomy between natural and artificial forms of consciousness altering techniques. Your book essentially argues that, in the safe ceremonial setting, especially with high does tryptamines, the psychedelic experience is equivalent to mystical experience, rather than just a “short cut”. Could you tell us a bit more about your thoughts on this?

Right—I have received plenty of response on this topic, so it’s clearly worth discussing. When former acidheads describe how they found what they needed in the church or the temple rather than in the trip, the amount of self-rationalization is difficult to gauge. Why do they even compare these two, radically different fields? The direct spiritual experiences offered within organized religion (which is almost nil in the Abrahamite systems, and tightly controlled in the Eastern systems) can never replace what you experience on a solid ride through hallucinogenic Innerspace. Surely, if you do a formal religious conversion, the main reason must be something other than the sights from your inner travels.

The condescending attitude towards psychedelics among converted Western yogins and sadhaks that you describe is sort of the standard Oregon ashram view that came out of the second wave of modern Psychedelia, meaning the counterculture wave and all those 1960s-70s acidhead hippies. I could agree with their skeptical opinion in the specific sense that the psychedelic drugs will not bring you to some sort of lasting state of religious revelation like that of a saint. But at the same time, the whole perspective is wrong, as it is based on the idea that the purpose of taking psychedelic drugs is to attain nirvana or satori or whatever perfect soteriological (final/revelatory) state you imagine. Who ever decided that was the main purpose? It is a largely meaningless conflation of two different schools; one which is the Eastern religious path, and one which is the path of psychedelic drugs. So I wouldn’t say equivalent as much as incommensurable, another useful 50c word which means ‘impossible to compare’.

What people need to do is stop confusing these two paths. Moksha and nirvana are specific end-states of a specific spiritual advancement that has been developed within a certain culture, a culture moreover which does not seem to have dealt much with psychedelic drugs. People who use hallucinogens do well to imagine quests and states within their spiritual path that are specific to the psychedelic experience, and stop meddling with Buddhism and Hinduism as though there was some shortcut between the two. There isn’t. You can save yourself a bit of time on the Eastern path by taking psychedelic drugs, but after that your work towards nirvana will have to be done within the realm of Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana, as the psychedelics veer off from the Buddhist path at a fairly early stage and set course for their own goals, which are full of colours and visions and very strange experiences. I believe the kind of ‘conclusions’ that a lot of baby-boomers reached concerning their psychedelic trips were merely the natural outcome of an incorrectly defined path. What is needed now and for the future is a Western Shamanism that draws on the spiritual wisdom of several schools to develop techniques, paths and end-states that are unique to the psychedelic compounds.

Regarding the actual contents of the visionary experience, what I’m saying is basically two things. First, since few or none of the Eastern inner traditions emanated from the specific use of serotonergic drugs, attempts to transpose things like the Abdidhamma or most secret Tantra to modern psychedelic trips has been awkward and frequently embarrassing (like The Psychedelic Experience by Leary & Co from 1964). Comparing the mindstream log from a series of psilocybin trips with that from a number of classic dhyana meditation sessions is almost meaningless. The content of the experience is profoundly different and the purpose is outright contradictory; the mushroom trip is about an adventure of the imagination and the gaining of knowledge, while the traditional meditation is about the quieting of the mind towards a state of non-dualistic liberation. I mean, it’s like comparing eating an orange with a stroll in a Summer pasture—there is too little isomorphic basis to draw any parallel.

The other point I make in the book is that the psychedelic experience is a mystical revelation of its own. It doesn’t need to be explained or interpreted through some existing tradition. The psychedelic compound provides its own distinct properties: how the trip evolves, its extremely rich impact on your cerebral processing, the lingering effects on your world-view. This wonder is given to you from nature, and you should let it unfold itself in all its magnificent glory. The tenets and forms surrounding a tryptamine mystery cult should obviously be designed by the experience itself, not by importing learning from poorly related realms. And I think during the third wave of modern Psychedelia, which began around 1980, this important issue was finally being learned. It is where we should have started back in the 1940s, but due to a number of circumstances, it didn’t happen like that.

In recent decades, thanks to the theoretical influence from anthropology and the practical influence from Amazonian drug plant shamanism, we have a good opportunity to develop an original, tailor-made context for our spiritual experiences. The Brazilian hoasca churches are obviously an interesting model, although I think the end result will be somewhat different. Again, we must stay true to the nature of who we are and what we are dealing with. This is a key intention behind my Psychedelia book; to survey the landscape in preparation for a modern-day Eleusis or a Western Shamanism. Our analysis should ultimately lead to synthesis, where we stop studying and begin to create, but like Jack Kerouac said when high on mushrooms, “walking on water wasn’t built in a day”. I would love to see people’s ideas about psychedelic mystery rites for the modern West, not just to support our purposeless play of hedonism, but also for the imparting of knowledge from higher states in peak moments.


Could you talk a bit about the crux of the book’s phenomenological thrust, what you called the Unified Psychedelic Theory (UPT)?

Except when writing formal scientific papers, I think any writer committed to a subject should try and bring a bit of his own creativity to the table, and ‘make it new’ in some way or other. The merits of this may be particularly clear in psychedelic research, where there is room for speculation and free-form intellectual energy. The Unified Psychedelic Theory is presented towards the end of my book rather than at the beginning, which is to signify that one does not have to accept the UPT to find value in the rest of the book. The UPT is a kind of a bonus, if you wish. It combines several independent models and theories also covered in the book to form a unified theory that, more or less, covers the entire psychedelic experience, from the taking of a specific plant drug and its psycho-active effects on brain neuro-chemistry, through the changes in cognitive and emotional processing it causes, and on to visionary peak states and the lingering psychological effects on the psychedelicist. The subsequent socio-cultural effects of tribal bonding, pantheistic ideals and utopian societies are also covered in a more implicit way.

The whole thing is rather complex, particularly the aspects that deal with the concept of neuro-gnostic processing that come from anthropologist Michael Winkelman. In his recent work Shamanism Winkelman presents a detailed theory of alternate states of consciousness that goes further into detail than anything else I’ve seen, and which has several convincing aspects. I encourage the reader to examine Winkelman’s model of brain function and neurotransmitters directly, as it cannot be compressed into a simple phrase or two. Another piece that I used to construct the UPT puzzle is Edmund Husserl’s philosophy of Phenomenology, which remains our best tool for studying the individualistic chaos of the hallucinogenic experience. In fact, Ralph Metzner’s high-lighting of Husserl provided some vital inspiration when I was preparing the Psychedelia manuscript.

Between the strictly empirical mindstream observations of Husserl and the complex psycho-physiological mechanics of Winkelman, the UPT also outlines an experiential model for the classic psychedelic journey. My General Trip Model combines trip models from the 1960s research (Leary, Alpert, Metzner; Masters-Houston; Grof) into a chart that identifies four different levels of psychedelization, where the highest is the transcendental state beyond ego-loss, and the lowest level consists of faint sensory phenomena with no peak experience. I’m hoping this can be accepted as the standard template for the long-acting psychedelic trip, which would be a useful step forward. Finally, the socio-cultural aspects of the Unified Psychedelic Theory are expressed through the definition of four psychedelic core values; these are 1) holism, 2) pantheism, 3) hedonism and 4) utopianism. These are only covered in passing in the Psychedelia book, and discussed more at length in a recent essay I wrote for the Fenris Wolf journal (“Notes Towards The Definition Of A Psychedelic Philosophy”, Fenris Wolf #7). Finally, the evolutionary-historical dimension of the UPT is covered via an alternate panspermic theory explicated in the final chapter of my book, but we will return to this topic in a later question.

In a recent article by Gayle Highpine, Unraveling the Mystery of the Origin of Ayahuasca, Highpine criticizes Jonathan’s Ott’s tryptamine focused way of categorizing ayahuasca and their analogues, and instead favors the vine based brew, relating that the Amazonian tribe Napo Runa call the Ayahuasca vine “the mother of all plants”.  Do you have any thoughts on this? In your experiential experience, what are some of the central differences between the traditional ayahuasca brew (B. Caapi and Chacruna/Chaliponga/Mimosa Hostilis) and the ayahuasca analogues? 

Ayahuasca is a mystery that we may never see the end of. Not just because of the phytochemical question-marks that still linger to this day, but the nature of the experience itself. Of course, all psychedelic experiences consist of entering the mirror and stepping out into a strange other world, but with ayahuasca there is a sense that the mystery is the dominating attribute. There is an eerie playfulness that I don’t really get with psilocybin, even if these two realms of Innerspace are rather closely located. With that said, my answer to your last question is that I experienced no loss of mystery when trying one of the anahuasca combinations—chacruna + Syrian Rue to be precise. My empirical basis is much too small for any real conclusion, but on a purely anecdotal level I thought the analogue brew produced effects and results entirely comparable with the classic chacruna+B. Caapi brew that I had taken a couple of times.

My enthusiasm for ayahuasca is constantly thwarted by the fact that my visual imagination is fairly weak. When doing tantric meditation, I have difficulties projecting the strong images that you’re supposed to work with. In the ayahuasca space, I am presented with these wonderful metaphors from the ‘Overseer’, but I have to be absolutely totally concentrated to capture these as images seen by the mind’s eye. You want all the details and perspectives for the subsequent analysis of what the ayahuasca showed you, and so the higher the resolution and the brighter the light, the better is your chance of success. I am not sure at all about the indigenous claim of the Caapi vine bringing the ideas and the chacruna (or other DMT source) bringing the light, but I do agree that on some schematic level, there really is a partition of the ayahuasca innerspace vistas into two principles; one is what you see, the other is the clarity with which you see it. To return to your original question, I found that my inner-eye ability seemed slightly weaker than usual when doing the Syrian Rue instead of B. Caapi for MAOI, but it may been purely incidental. I am diligent in following prescribed dosages and preparations, but the explanation here may simply be that I need to increase the Syrian Rue dosage. Of course, this also contradicts the Amazonian idea that the visual clarity has to do with the DMT source rather than the MAOI, but as I mentioned I am not convinced that their perspective is neurochemically accurate.

On a general note, I think it is important that we must continue drinking the brew the way the Amazonian tribes do, no matter how challenging the vine is. There is so much we do not yet know or understand about the ayahuasca world that we need to linger in a phenomenological-empirical mode for some time further. The fact that the shamans insist on the Caapi vine being the main ingredient, the true ayahuasca, simply cannot be brushed aside, even if our microscopes and brain scans tell us that the Chacruna provides all the major action. These people are the experts, that’s what Harner and Narby and the other anthropologists realized, and there is no credible way that we can suddenly dismiss their beliefs in some places. They may of course be wrong, and we may be right in what the Western bio-chemistry tells us, but I do not think we are at the point of making that bold assertion yet. What I do think is coming up, and which may in fact be the key to unlock this particular ayahuasca conundrum, is a concentrated look at THH, Tetrahydroharmine, the third and least understood alkaloid in the harmala trinity. I know others who say the same thing regarding THH, and I hope one of the mainstream research projects currently in progress will be able to open a sidetrack to look more into THH on its own.

Jimmy Weiskopf says in his book Yaje: The New Purgatory that drinking Ayahuasca in the jungle is “full of dangerous forces and the drinker fully enters this other dimension…wouldn’t it be better to isolate the ritual from nature instead of realizing it in the middle of the forest? Yes, in a way, but what would be the point?”

I mention this because in your book you state that it is not necessary to go to Peru or Columbia in order to have a profound experience with Ayahuasca, advocating something that has been criticized lately, which is 1st world, predominantly white or European, “bedroom shamanism.” Of course there are also issues around neo-colonialism and the appropriation of indigenous cultures in general. 

But as Richard Meech has recently said, we are all indigenous to the earth, and everyone deserves a chance to find their own path. There are many traditionalists in Aya culture who feel that a shaman is absolutely necessary in the process, and frown upon self initiation for the solitary drinker. Could you talk a bit about shamanism tourism and your thoughts on that?

Having not witnessed it first-hand, I can’t comment too much on the ayahuasca tourism phenomenon. What I have seen on video looked embarassing for both natives and Westerners—“sessions” held in broad daylight in spaces full of on-lookers, while local tribes-people dress up in their most colorful clothes and smile towards strangers. Presumably the brew is getting more diluted every year. Then there is the dark side with the phony shamans, the mind controllers and sexual predators… it’s just a new spin on the old encounter between incompatible cultures. But a few will find what they’re looking for, and their accounts will be different from the bad stories seeping out.

I don’t care particularly either way. I have developed a trans-oceanic fascination with the Amazonian tribes, the entheogenic-shamanic ones in particular. It amazes me that as recently as the mid-1960s, right at the time of the great, second wave of modern Western psychedelia with Haight-Ashbury and the Human Be-In and all, there existed ancient American cultures built around the use of psychedelic drugs, and absolutely no one except a few anthropologists and ethnobotanists knew about it. Imagine if the intelligentsia of Haight-Ashbury had gone on a trek into the Sibundoy Valley back in 1966—imagine what that would have done to the entire late ‘60s hippie culture, when they came home to file report. But almost no one understood the importance of these indigenous societies, or the depth to which strong hallucinogens governed their culture, and instead everything in the West remained fixated on LSD and its rather unexciting background as a lab-grown psychiatric-military research tool. We had to wait until the third phase of Western psychedelization for the shamanic-entheogenic paradigm to play out, and over the past 30 years it has done so most beautifully, from the advocacy of the McKennas and the discovery of Pablo Amaringo to the tribal drug metaphors found in billion dollar movies like The Matrix and Avatar.

Ignoring the bumpy and sometimes poorly synched socio-history, the vital fact is that the tryptamines are here, and the Westerner’s relationship with them has just begun. The reason why I say that I don’t really care about the Iquitos tourist spectacles and phony shamans is because I regard this as the wrong road from the start. Any viable culture that is developed from profound spiritual experiences needs to take the larger cultural matrix into account, or else the threshold will be too high to climb. You can start a-fresh with the tryptamine lore of your and your friend’s experiences, but you need to develop this enclave in a way where there is as little socio-cultural friction with the host society as possible. For a Westerner, this means that you do not import the entire tribal vegetalista belief system that works brilliantly for the Neolithic village in the Amazon. What you do, to make it work, is that you try to develop a Western Shamanism, which draws from a combined understanding of the formidable entheogenic-botanic knowledge of the DMT tribes and their shamanic navigators, and a realization of the visionary strengths of the Western culture in which you grew up and are at home. Our spiritual inheritage is so massive, and a lot of it, like William Blake or Herman Hesse or the Beats, has direct bearing on our higher state experiences. This was a point Albert Hofmann insisted upon in later years—first of all look to your own saints, your own mystics—and he was absolutely right.

Even with the Brazilian hoasca churches, which is a very fine, positive development, the ritual models are so strongly colored by the cultural particularities of their founders and their special paradigms, that I do not think they should be brought to Europe except to work as local branches. The Western man needs to develop his own psychedelic philosophy and rites, and the richer the links to our own cultural history are, the stronger they will grow. We already have an alternate spiritual history, we just need to find our way back into it. Following today’s psychedelic impulse backwards, through the wild ride of the 20th century, back to the Renaissance and the Neoplatonists and the hallucinogenic initiation at Eleusis, the implications of what we as psychedelicists are dealing with become more profound than just getting together to dance on shrooms and forget about tomorrow. It was all there at the Great Temple at Eleusis, in the dawn of Western culture—the psychedelic affirmation of something greater than reality, and the forming of a mystery cult based on this shared experience. We’ve done it before, we can do it again.
 

Tell us about your theory of pan spermia, and how this relates to the post-Terence McKenna theory of psychedelics and evolution?

The panspermic idea itself isn’t mine, but it may be true that it hasn’t been inserted into a psychedelic evolution theory like this before. Going back to Michael Harner’s legendary yagé trip around 1960, panspermia has been a recurring theme in the deeper realms of tryptamine Innerspace. There are a lot of drug visions about macro-scale evolution in the psychedelic chronicles, and the panspermia theme is probably best understood as part of that topic. It hasn’t been talked about as much as the grand evolutionary visions which kept both Leary and McKenna busy. McKenna did however clearly deal with panspermic issues in some of his vintage psilocybin lectures, while Leary didn’t get into it until the 1970s, with Star-Seed. Shortly put, panspermia has remained an underground theme within psychedelic culture, but it has been there for a long time.

Of course, panspermia as an idea isn’t restricted to hallucinogenic space cadets, but began as a theory among traditional astro-physicists and astronomers such as Fred Hoyle. It is simply the idea that earth was ‘seeded’ long ago by bio-evolutionary matter from another part of the universe. This may have happened simply as an accident, as the result of a meteor crash with some miniscule cellular organism surviving the journey and beginning to interact with the local chemical soup. Or it may have been an intentional act from an unknown power, who wanted to change and shape the infant planet Earth in a certain direction. If this sounds familiar it may be because Hollywood loves panspermia, and you can find it at the thematic core in recent things like Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and Brian De Palma’s Mission To Mars. The most basic form of the theory, which simply suggests that alien matter affected early evolution of organisms on earth, isn’t particularly controversial even if unproven.

As for how this fits into the Psychedelia book and the Unified Psychedelic Theory, I can’t really explain this without quoting my last chapter at length, so I suggest those interested to simply read the book. One point I make that sets it apart from comparable hypotheses is that the influx of alien genomic matter carried with it the potential for evolutionary paths of a higher order than what the local environment, meaning the young Earth, was ready for. So there may have been early expressions in ancient life-forms of abilities that never again existed on earth, but since they provided no advantage in the survival game, they were suppressed and overtaken by cruder but more useful abilities. Is it possible that this potential evolutionary high-road is still in some way operational, but buried in the oldest regions of the brain? Is this the superior realm we enter when high on psychedelic drugs—a suppressed evolutionary sidetrack that can now only be reached when the brain is flooded with neurotransmitters? These are some of the questions I raise, but there are other dimensions to the inquiry as well, and I’m not sure any of this makes sense when taken out of context. If this topic is of interest, read the book and then e-mail me your own theory. Spacey discussions like this are what psychedelicists were put on earth for anyway!

 

Psychedelic Resources

A Foraging Trip: Where Do Magic Mushrooms Grow?
Eager to learn more about the origin of psilocybin species? Read this article to find out where magic mushrooms grow and more!

How to Make Shroom Tea: Best Recipe and Dosage
A step by step guide on how to brew shroom tea, and why entheogenic psilocybin tea is a preferred method for psychedelic connoisseurs.

R. Gordon Wasson: Author and Mushroom Expert
Learn about R. Gordon Wasson, the “legendary mushroom expert” and popular figure within the psychonaut community.

Shrooms vs Acid: Differences and Similarities Explained
Ever wondered what the differences are between shrooms vs acid, or if you can take both together? This guide explains what you need to know.

Quantum Mechanics, Reality, and Magic Mushrooms
Scientist and author Dr. Chris Becker takes an in-depth approach in understanding how we perceive reality through magic mushrooms and quantum mechanics.

Psilocybin Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Psilocybin has everything you want to know about this psychedelic fungi from its uses to its legal status.

The Psilocybin Experience: What’s the Deal With Magic Mushrooms?
From microdoses to macrodoses, the psilocybin experience has been sought after both medicinally and recreationally for millennia.

Psilocybin and Magic Mushroom Resources
Curious to learn more about psilocybin? This guide is a comprehensive psilocybin resource containing books, therapeutic studies, and more.

Paul Stamets Profile: Mushroom Guru, Filmmaker, Nutritionist, Scientist
Learn about Paul Stamets, read his thoughts on psilocybin mircodosing, the future of psilocybin, and his recent film “Fantastic Fungi”.

Microdosing Psilocybin & Common Dosage Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivably, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing psilocybin.

Psilocybin Nasal Spray: Relief for Anxiety, PTSD, and Depression
Microdosing nasal spray with psilocybin, is that possible?! Oregan a start-up Silo Wellness believes so and has created this new option for PTSD treatment.

Mazatec Mushroom Usage: Notes on Approach, Setting and Species for Curious Psilonauts
A look at traditional Mazatec psilocybin mushroom usage, and a comparison to the cliniical therapeutic approach, with an examination of the Mazatec setting and species used in veladas.

María Sabina: The Mazatec Magic Mushroom Woman
Magic mushrooms are incredibly popular today. How they became introduced to into American culture isn’t usually a topic discussed while tripping on psilocybin fungi. We all may have María Sabina to thank for exposing the Western world to the healing properties of the psilocybin mushroom.

Guide to Magic Mushroom Strains
Are there different types of psilocybin? Read our guide to learn about the different magic mushroom strains and their individual effects.

Kilindi Iyi: Mycologist, Traveler, Teacher
Learn about traveler and mycologist Kilindi Iyi known in the psychedelic community for his research and exploration of psilocybin.

How to Store Shrooms: Best Practices
How do you store shrooms for optimal shelf life? Learn how and why the proper storage method is so important.

Shroom Chocolate Recipes: How to Make Magic Mushroom Chocolates
This recipe provides step by step directions on how you can make mushroom chocolates with the necessary ingredients. Read to learn more!

Why Do People Use Psilocybin? New Johns Hopkins Study
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicines has just published a new study on psychoactive effects of psilocybin. Read here to learn more.

How-To Lemon Tek: Ultimate Guide and Recipe
This master guide will teach you how to lemon tek, preventing the onset of negative effects after consuming psilocybin. Read to learn more!

How to Intensify a Mushroom Trip
Learn about techniques like Lemon tekking, or discover the right time to consume cannabis if you are looking to intensify a mushroom trip.

How to Grow Magic Mushrooms: Step-by-Step
This step-by-step guide will show you how to grow magic mushrooms at home. Read this guide before trying it on your own.

How to Dry Magic Mushrooms: Best Practices
Read to learn more about specifics for the best practices on how to dry magic mushrooms after harvesting season.

How to Buy Psilocybin Spores
Interested in psilocybin mushrooms? We’ll walk you through all you need to know to obtain mushroom spores. Nosh on this delish How To guide.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

Having Sex on Shrooms: Good or Bad Idea?
Is having sex on shrooms a good idea or an accident waiting to happen? Find out in our guide to sex on magic mushrooms.

Gold Cap Shrooms Guide: Spores, Effects, Identification
Read this guide to learn more about the different characteristics of gold cap mushrooms, and how they differ from other psilocybin species.

Guide to Cooking with Magic Mushrooms
From cookies to smoothies and sandwiches, we cover various methods of cooking with magic mushrooms for the ultimate snack.

2020 Election: The Decriminalize Psilocybin Movement
Are you curious if mushrooms will follow in marijuana’s footsteps? Read to learn about how the U.S. is moving to decriminalize psilocybin.

Oregon’s Initiative to Legalize Mushrooms | Initiative Petition 34
Oregon continues to push ahead with their initiative to legalize Psilocybin in 2020. The measure received its official title and now needs signatures.

Canada Approves Psilocybin Treatment for Terminally-Ill Cancer Patients
Canada’s Minister of Health, Patty Hajdu approved the use of psilocybin to help ease anxiety and depression of four terminal cancer patients.

Mapping the DMT Experience
With only firsthand experiences to share, how can we fully map the DMT experience? Let’s explore what we know about this powerful psychedelic.

Guide to Machine Elves and Other DMT Entities
This guide discusses machine elves, clockwork elves, and other common DMT entities that people experience during a DMT trip.

Is the DMT Experience a Hallucination? 
What if the DMT realm was the real world, and our everyday lives were merely a game we had chosen to play?

How to Store DMT
Not sure how to store DMT? Read this piece to learn the best practices and elements of advice to keep your stuff fresh.

What Does 5-MeO-DMT Show Us About Consciousness?
How does our brain differentiate between what’s real and what’s not? Read to learn what can 5-MeO-DMT show us about consciousness.

How to Smoke DMT: Processes Explained
There are many ways to smoke DMT and we’ve outlined some of the best processes to consider before embarking on your journey.

How to Ground After DMT
Knowing what to expect from a DMT comedown can help you integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible from your journey.

How To Get DMT
What kind of plants contain DMT? Are there other ways to access this psychedelic? Read on to learn more about how to get DMT.

How DMT is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make DMT? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how DMT is made.

Having Sex on DMT: What You Need to Know
Have you ever wondered about sex on DMT? Learn how the God Molecule can influence your intimate experiences.

Does the Human Brain Make DMT? 
With scientific evidence showing us DMT in the brain, what can we conclude it is there for? Read on to learn more.

How to Use DMT Vape Pens
Read to learn all about DMT vape pens including: what to know when vaping, what to expect when purchasing a DMT cartridge, and vaping safely.

DMT Resources
This article is a comprehensive DMT resource providing extensive information from studies, books, documentaries, and more. Check it out!

Differentiating DMT and Near-Death Experiences
Some say there are similarities between a DMT trip and death. Read our guide on differentiating DMT and near-death experiences to find out.

DMT Research from 1956 to the Edge of Time
From a representative sample of a suitably psychedelic crowd, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who couldn’t tell you all about Albert Hofmann’s enchanted bicycle ride after swallowing what turned out to be a massive dose of LSD. Far fewer, however, could tell you much about the world’s first DMT trip.

The Ultimate Guide to DMT Pricing
Check out our ultimate guide on DMT pricing to learn what to expect when purchasing DMT for your first time.

DMT Milking | Reality Sandwich
Indigenous cultures have used 5-MeO-DMT for centuries. With the surge in demand for psychedelic toad milk, is DMT Milking harming the frogs?

Why Does DMT Pervade Nature?
With the presence of DMT in nature everywhere – including human brains – why does it continue to baffle science?

DMT Substance Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to DMT has everything you want to know about this powerful psychedelic referred to as “the spirit molecule”.

DMT for Depression: Paving the Way for New Medicine
We’ve been waiting for an effective depression treatment. Studies show DMT for depression works even for treatment resistant patients.

Beating Addiction with DMT
Psychedelics have been studied for their help overcoming addiction. Read how DMT is helping addicts beat their substance abuse issues.

DMT Extraction: Behind the Scientific Process
Take a look at DMT extraction and the scientific process involved. Learn all you need to know including procedures and safety.

Microdosing DMT & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing DMT.

DMT Art: A Look Behind Visionary Creations
An entire genre of artwork is inspired by psychedelic trips with DMT. Read to learn about the entities and visions behind DMT art.

Changa vs. DMT: What You Need to Know
While similar (changa contains DMT), each drug has its own unique effect and feeling. Let’s compare and contrast changa vs DMT.

5-MeO-DMT Guide: Effects, Benefits, Safety, and Legality
5-Meo-DMT comes from the Sonora Desert toad. Here is everything you want to know about 5-Meo-DMT and how it compares to 4-AcO-DMT.

4-AcO-DMT Guide: Benefits, Effects, Safety, and Legality
This guide tells you everything about 4 AcO DMT & 5 MeO DMT, that belong to the tryptamine class, and are similar but slightly different to DMT.

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The Ayahuasca Experience
Ayahuasca is both a medicine and a visionary aid. You can employ ayahuasca for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual repair, and you can engage with the power of ayahuasca for deeper insight and realization. If you consider attainment of knowledge in the broadest perspective, you can say that at all times, ayahuasca heals.

 

Trippy Talk: Meet Ayahuasca with Sitaramaya Sita and PlantTeachers
Sitaramaya Sita is a spiritual herbalist, pusangera, and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition.

 

The Therapeutic Value of Ayahuasca
My best description of the impact of ayahuasca is that it’s a rocket boost to psychospiritual growth and unfolding, my professional specialty during my thirty-five years of private practice.

 

Microdosing Ayahuasca: Common Dosage Explained
What is ayahuasca made of and what is considered a microdose? Explore insights with an experienced Peruvian brewmaster and learn more about this practice.

 

Ayahuasca Makes Neuron Babies in Your Brain
Researchers from Beckley/Sant Pau Research Program have shared the latest findings in their study on the effects of ayahuasca on neurogenesis.

 

The Fatimiya Sufi Order and Ayahuasca
In this interview, the founder of the Fatimiya Sufi Order,  N. Wahid Azal, discusses the history and uses of plant medicines in Islamic and pre-Islamic mystery schools.

 

Consideration Ayahuasca for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research indicates that ayahuasca mimics mechanisms of currently accepted treatments for PTSD. In order to understand the implications of ayahuasca treatment, we need to understand how PTSD develops.

 

Brainwaves on Ayahuasca: A Waking Dream State
In a study researchers shared discoveries showing ingredients found in Ayahuasca impact the brainwaves causing a “waking dream” state.

 

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a pro cannabis Peruvian Shaman.

 

Ayahuasca Retreat 101: Everything You Need to Know to Brave the Brew
Ayahuasca has been known to be a powerful medicinal substance for millennia. However, until recently, it was only found in the jungle. Word of its deeply healing and cleansing properties has begun to spread across the world as many modern, Western individuals are seeking spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. More ayahuasca retreat centers are emerging in the Amazon and worldwide to meet the demand.

 

Ayahuasca Helps with Grief
A new study published in psychopharmacology found that ayahuasca helped those suffering from the loss of a loved one up to a year after treatment.

 

Ayahuasca Benefits: Clinical Improvements for Six Months
Ayahuasca benefits can last six months according to studies. Read here to learn about the clinical improvements from drinking the brew.

 

Ayahuasca Culture: Indigenous, Western, And The Future
Ayahuasca has been use for generations in the Amazon. With the rise of retreats and the brew leaving the rainforest how is ayahuasca culture changing?

 

Ayahuasca Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
The Amazonian brew, Ayahuasca has a long history and wide use. Read our guide to learn all about the tea from its beginnings up to modern-day interest.

 

Ayahuasca and the Godhead: An Interview with Wahid Azal of the Fatimiya Sufi Order
Wahid Azal, a Sufi mystic of The Fatimiya Sufi Order and an Islamic scholar, talks about entheogens, Sufism, mythology, and metaphysics.

 

Ayahuasca and the Feminine: Women’s Roles, Healing, Retreats, and More
Ayahuasca is lovingly called “grandmother” or “mother” by many. Just how feminine is the brew? Read to learn all about women and ayahuasca.

What Is the Standard of Care for Ketamine Treatments?
Ketamine therapy is on the rise in light of its powerful results for treatment-resistant depression. But, what is the current standard of care for ketamine? Read to find out.

What Is Dissociation and How Does Ketamine Create It?
Dissociation can take on multiple forms. So, what is dissociation like and how does ketamine create it? Read to find out.

Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative
Curious about what it could feel like to have sex on a dissociate? Find out all the answers in our guide to sex on ketamine.

Special K: The Party Drug
Special K refers to Ketamine when used recreationally. Learn the trends as well as safety information around this substance.

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

Ketamine vs. Esketamine: 3 Important Differences Explained
Ketamine and esketamine are used to treat depression. But what’s the difference between them? Read to learn which one is right for you: ketamine vs. esketamine.

Guide to Ketamine Treatments: Understanding the New Approach
Ketamine is becoming more popular as more people are seeing its benefits. Is ketamine a fit? Read our guide for all you need to know about ketamine treatments.

Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders
Ketamine is becoming a promising treatment for various mental health conditions. Read to learn how individuals can use ketamine treatment for eating disorders.

Ketamine Resources, Studies, and Trusted Information
Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
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How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
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Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
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Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
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Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
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MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
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How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
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Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
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Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
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How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
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A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
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NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
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The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
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CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
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