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We’re trying to learn what specific coping techniques people found helpful with specific types of post-psychedelic difficulties. Help us find out with this 15-min survey. Thanks as ever to everyone who helps with our research!

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The four children lost in the Colombian jungle were found by an indigenous man on ayahuasca: “Those who take yagé see far beyond what we see. He becomes a doctor, a panther, a tiger a puma. He had the capacity to look.” h/t @Josh__Hardman

Indigenous knowledge, bravery, vigilance: how young siblings survived in Colombia’s perilous jungle

Thirteen-year-old Lesly Mukutuy credited with using ancestral knowledge to help keep her younger siblings alive

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@PaulEmbery I think one can believe immigrants make a positive contribution to British society while also arguing for control on immigration. That's what most British people believe, more or less.

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Hypothesis: spiritual people more prone to narcissism than other religious groups, because New Age spirituality doesn’t promote humility as dominant value, and because evolutionary spirituality inclines people to see themselves as essentially superior and a higher type of human

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@lexfridman @GretaThunberg @Cobratate You want a sex trafficker as a guest on your podcast?

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May 4th is the 70th anniversary of Aldous Huxley's first trip, and the birth of a friendship that shaped western culture's psychedelic experiences.

Happy 70th anniversary of your first trip, Aldous Huxley

May 4th 1953 was also the birth of a friendship that would shape western culture’s understanding of psychedelics

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In recent months, Joe Rogan declared 'we need Jesus', Andrew Huberman said he's started reading the Bible, Russell Brand has called Jesus 'our Lord and Saviour', Jordan Hall has converted to Christianity. Does long-form podcasting inevitably end in Jesus?

Blessed are the sense-makers

Are psychedelics bringing podcasters to Jesus?

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11 months

Here are my impressions of Psychedelic Science, an immense gathering. But where were the panels on long-term psychedelic harms?

Holy Molly

Psychedelic Science was an immense quasi-religious gathering. But what was left unmapped?

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Psychedelic integration can't just involve integrating trip 'insights' into everyday life. We also need to ask 'is this insight true, or wise?' That involves philosophy and theology as much as psychotherapy.

On philosophy, theology and ‘psychedelic integration’

Philosophical integration of psychedelic experiences helps people not just to integrate an insight but to ask: is this true and wise?

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With a brother with bipolar disorder and a history of psychosis in his family, ironically Aldous Huxley - the man who co-created the word 'psychedelic' - would be screened out of most psychedelic trials and clinics today.

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‘Some people think there are no risks. No. There are catastrophic risks’. Right on Roland Griffiths #psychedelicscience2023

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4 years

People are amazed that New Age hippies could fall for far-right conspiracies, but the New Age and far-right have overlapped before, for example in 1930s Germany.

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3 months

One of the official complaints about the Oregon psilocybin programme. Facilitator put too much Phish on the playlist. Think we can all sympathize with this one.

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@JKSteinberger @derspiegel @GretaThunberg On one point it’s clearly correct - she chose to put her position on the highly contentious Israel / Palestine conflict first, and the global climate movement second, and as a result she is not going to be a unifying global leader on climate anymore.

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2 months

Tim Ferris’ newsletter this week:

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1 year

Here's what I learned from multiple interviews about the collapse of Synthesis Institute, the first psychedelic retreat company and the first big bankruptcy of the shroom boom. What lessons can the psychedelic ecosystem take away from this debacle?

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2 years

Russell Brand joining Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson in the 'log cabin at the end of the world' aesthetic.

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2 years

@BretWeinstein You think every government in the world has a secret plan and that secret plan - not the pandemic - is the reason for lockdowns and vaccine mandates? Yet somehow, this plan - held by every government in the world - is still a secret?

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7 months

Our paper on extended difficulties after psychedelics now published in PLOS One.

Extended difficulties following the use of psychedelic drugs: A mixed methods study

Long-term adverse experiences following psychedelic use can persist for weeks, months, or even years, and are relatively unexplored in psychedelic research. Our convergent mixed-method study gained...

journals.plos.org

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3 years

Bees can see UV light, so flowers have evolved patterns to attract them. This is how some of them look to bees.

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2 years

As millions of people turn to psychedelics and contemplative practices, we urgently need better cultural resources to help people make sense of ecstatic experiences.

We urgently need to improve western culture’s ecstatic literacy

More people are having ecstatic experiences. Western culture urgently needs better cultural resources to help people make sense of them.

medium.com

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Bob Jesse: ‘it’s not helpful when people say one psychedelic session is like 10,000 hours of therapy’. Next session: ‘apparently one psychedelic session is like a year of therapy’. Maps board member Vicky Dulai!

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Paul Stamets on how Frank Herbert's love of shrooms inspired Dune. The books are an interesting example of spiritual eugenics, of the sort that is quite common in sci-fi (HG Wells, Heinlein, Arthur C Clarke, Asimov and others).

Frank Herbert’s magic mushrooms and the psychedelic science behind Dune

How the Dune author’s love of hallucinogens and fungi inspired the trippiest space saga of our age – and changed the way mushrooms are grown

www.telegraph.co.uk

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11 months

They need to be clearer about harms and risks. If someone told me four years ago, 'Matias, you could cure your anxiety or you could totally break your mind and suffer for four years' I would say ‘I prefer to stay with the anxiety’.

DMT, derealization and depersonalization

'If someone told me 'you could cure your anxiety or totally break your mind for four years' I would choose to stay with the anxiety'.

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Do psychedelic medical treatments always require psychotherapy? A debate / discussion with Compass Pathways' Professor Guy Goodwin (who thinks not) and Open Foundation's Dr Max Wolff (who thinks so). December 11, 6pm GMT, online, free.

Do psychedelic medical treatments always require psychotherapy?

A debate between Professor Guy Goodwin and Dr Max Wolff on a crucial question for the psychedelic industry

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7 months

Here's a visual summary of the findings of our recent PLOS One paper: 'Extended difficulties following the use of psychedelic drugs'. Sound on.

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3 years

Something I wrote on the Q shaman, and the role of conspirituality in yesterday's attempted coup.

A Closer Look at the ‘QAnon Shaman’ Leading the Mob

Conspirutiality — in which New Age wellness meets conspiracy culture — helped stoke the riot on Capitol Hill

gen.medium.com

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Our team's research helped pilot Joseph Emerson's defence team get the 84 charges of attempted murder dropped. But there's still the question - how to communicate the risks of psychedelics, so first-time users know they're not risk-free?

How to communicate the risks of psychedelics?

Public health messaging is not easy

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More on use of ayahuasca (yage) in rescue of the Colombian children in the jungle. Spanish translation: 'we turned to spirituality when we were desperate, and for us that meant yage, to help. We use yage in very special occasions...'

#EXCLUSIVO: ¿Cómo fue el rescate de los NIÑOS en la selva del...

Las voces, los testimonios y las vivencias del rescate de Lesly, Soleiny, Tien y Cristin en la selva colombiana del #Guaviare, un trabajo en equipo de la Gua...

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New talk by Alan Watts on psychedelics, uploaded by his son Mark last week. Watts speaks of the 'catastrophic dimensions' of mental health damage from the 60s psychedelic counterculture and argues for 'very great caution'.

Alan Watts: Drugs: Turning the Head or Turning On – Being in the Way...

Can you get mysticism in a bottle? Alan Watts explores the drug question, in this psychedelically infused episode of Being in the Way.This series is brought ...

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@BBCWorld No idea about the specifics of this incident. Asian Buddhist countries have not yet gone through what the Vatican went through over the last 20 years - there appears to be a serious issue of child abuse in Buddhist monasteries.

Temples no longer safe for children

News about monks

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3 years

Jeremy Bentham was godfather to John Stuart Mill, who in turn was godfather to Bertrand Russell.

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MAPS list of possible difficult psychedelic experiences. This is the leading psychedelic organisation in the world and it doesn’t mention panic, paranoia, fear of dying, derealization, dissociation etc. no it’s ‘UFO encounters and travelling in the spirit realm’

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From Totnes to Glastonbury, from Ibiza to Byron Bay, why are New Age sites turning into hotspots for anti-vax, anti-mask sentiment? I tried to figure it out, with help from correspondents around the world, including @DrEmilyGrossman and @william_bloom

Make love, not vaccines: why are New Age hippies so anti-vax?

From Glastonbury to Findhorn, from Ibiza to Byron Bay, New Age hippies are super-spreaders of anti-vax & anti-mask propaganda. Far out!

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I was asked me to research Accelerationsm and Nick Land, so I did. Dark stuff.

Accelerationism, amphetamine philosophy, and the Death Trip

This is about AI, Charles Manson, dubstep, Neo-Nazis and a lot of amphetamine. Mostly, it’s about English philosopher Nick Land.

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Here's the first paper to come out of the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences project ( @psychedelicrisk ), lead author Anna Lutkajtis, co-author me - qualitative phenomenological analysis of integration challenges after a psilocybin retreat.

Psychedelic integration challenges: Participant experiences after a psilocybin truffle retreat...

Abstract This article reports on integration challenges that were experienced by nine individuals who attended a three-day legal psilocybin truffle retreat in the Netherlands. The study employed a...

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“There’s been so much promotion of psychedelics as a means to healing. But there hasn’t been a concerted public education campaign about some of the harms or potential risks of psychedelics.”

How Psychedelic Hype Is Hurting More People Than We Realize

While much has been made about the power of these drugs to treat pernicious mental health issues, what gets lost are the people who get hurt in the process.

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‘95% of psychedelic therapy might be placebo and I’m ok with that.’ Ronan Levy, whose company Field Trip charged several hundred dollars for its treatment. Must be a cheaper way to get placebo effect! #psychedelicscience2023

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Report from ICER on MAPS' MDMA therapy. 'we have substantial concerns about validity of results...unblinded...very strong prior beliefs of those involved in the trials...therapists encouraged favorable reports by patients and discouraged negative reports'

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The psychedelic industry needs to learn how to deal with bad trips - and bad publicity.

The psychedelic industry needs to learn how to deal with bad trips – and bad publicity

Compass published good trial results last week, but over-sensitive public relations spoiled the party

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The Challenging Psychedelic Experiences project is studying what helps people who have difficulties after a trip, that last longer than a day. If you'd had such an experience, please fill in this anonymous 15min survey. Also please share. Thank you!

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15% of respondents to the Global Ayahuasca Survey reported feeling energetically attacked or a harmful connection to the 'spirit world'. Negative entity encounters also occur on other psychedelics. How should we cope with demons - welcome, eject or ignore?

Encounters with negative entities

Welcome the demon, expel it, or ignore it?

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Encouraging story of someone who had ARFID (avoidant / restructive food intake disorder) their entire life, wondered if psychedelics could help, did their research (including our research) and decided it was worth the risk for them, and it turned out well.

I cured my ARFID with psilocybin. I shouldn’t have needed to self-treat it

I tried an untested a DIY therapy, and it worked.

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Should the psychedelic industry talk about entity encounters, including the risk of malevolent entities? Should it inform clients, customers and patients about this aspect of some psychedelic experiences? Should psychedelic guides be trained in it?

The psychedelic industry's entity dilemma

Talk about them, or don't talk about them?

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I remember in Russell Brand’s radio 2 show, which was one of the funniest things I’ve heard, he used to end every show with ‘oi China get out of Tibet!’ 15 years later he’s defending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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Rest in peace Roland Griffiths, one of the leading figures in the psychedelic renaissance.

He helped cancer patients find peace through psychedelics. Then came his diagnosis

Roland Griffiths is known as the scientist who helped prove that psychedelics can alleviate depression and mental anguish in cancer patients. That pursuit has since become a lot more personal.

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An interview with two participants in Braxia's trial of psilocybin for TRD / bipolar, both of whom experience extended difficulties two years on which they attribute to the trial and which they feel weren't properly reported.

Two cases of extended difficulties after Braxia's psilocybin TRD trial

What the psychedelic industry can learn from these stories

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The pilot who seems to have had an extended bout of derealization after taking magic mushrooms is a main story on CBS and NBC evening news. First time there's been a major psychedelic incident in the news since the renaissance began, I think.

Pilot accused of trying to shut plane engines off took "magic mushrooms" 48 hours earlier

The Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to shut a plane's engines off midflight appeared in court Tuesday. According to court documents, he told authorities he had been depressed in recent years...

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Great pic of the first legal provider of psilocybin therapy in the western world.

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4 years

@nytopinion @afuahirsch That’s a massively unfair and polarising thing to write @afuahirsch

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Good piece from the NYT on ketamine patients getting dependent, bladder and cognitive issues, ‘boofing’, and getting zero support from telehealth providers when they report suicidality.

A Fraught New Frontier in Telehealth: Ketamine (Published 2023)

With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions. But a boom in at-home use has outpaced evidence of safety.

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Another piece on Nick Land and Accelerationism this weekend - this one on TikTok as a weapon of Chinese Accelerationism. Very interesting.

TikTok is a Time Bomb

The ultimate weapon of mass distraction

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'We met two Beverly Hills psychiatrists the other day, who specialize in lsd therapy at $100 a shot – I have seldom met people of lower sensitivity, more vulgar mind! To think of people made vulnerable by lsd being exposed to such people is profoundly disturbing.' Aldous Huxley

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3 years

@BretWeinstein Fixed it for you

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2 years

How can we have any consensus on psychology and psychiatry when we don't even know what consciousness is and what it can do?

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10 months

The psychedelic media ecosystem is largely funded by psychedelic corporates and venture funds, who use it to promote their stocks, or the industry in general. This can give retail investors and the 'psychedelic curious' inaccurate information or hype.

Who pays the piper

Psychedelic media companies and the hype cycle

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3 years

Sales of Meditations are up for last 8 years, says Penguin – from 16,000 copies in 2012 to 100,000 copies in 2019. “We have noticed a natural (slightly mysterious) year-on-year increase in our sales of the Stoic philosophers,” said Penguin’s Isabel Blake.

‘Dress rehearsal for catastrophe’: how Stoics are speaking to locked-down readers

Sales of works by ancient Roman Marcus Aurelius have seen a sharp uptick in recent months. Which makes calm sense

www.theguardian.com

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A new religion….

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3 years

Here's a story about how New Age conspirituality was mobilized in the last few years to support far-right authoritarian politics. It focuses on a New Age wellness influencer called Sacha Stone.

How the New Age fell for the oldest lie in the book

Sacha Stone is the perfect example of the over-lap of New Age conspirituality and authoritarian politics.

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Perfectly normal.

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Big story in Times today. Expect more of these. Sounds like the course she went on had no idea how to support her or who to refer her to when she had a very bad reaction to San Pedro.

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This week's Tuesday brunch, are we using psychedelic plants or are they using us? @michaelpollan thinks it's a bit of both.

Are we using psychedelic plants, or are they using us?

Michael Pollan thinks it's a bit of both

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I’m absolutely loving discovering the work of Robert Anton Wilson. Seems so useful to me in understanding and integrating unusual / psychedelic experiences. Thanks to @erik_davis ’s High Weirdness for introducing me to his ideas and life.

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New paper on feelings of shame and guilt during psilocybin experiences by @d_mathai et al. We see it in our data too - people can feel they have failed a test, committed some awful crime or broken a taboo and will be scapegoated, cursed or punished.

Shame, guilt and psychedelic experience: Results from a prospective, longitudinal survey of...

Introduction: The classic psychedelic psilocybin has attracted special interest across clinical and non-clinical settings as a potential tool for mental health. However, despite increasing attention...

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Tripping during COVID: 'we expected to see those who chose to use psychedelics as having better mood and higher resilience than users of other drugs or participants who never used drugs. This was not the case.'

Frontiers | Associations between the use of psychedelics and other recreational drugs with mental...

The large-scale disruption to peoples’ daily lives during the COVID-19 pandemic provides a context for examining whether use of substances such as psychedeli...

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@JimMFelton 'I know one of my ministers is for it and one is against it' - Cabinet split over dog shit. There's tomorrow's headline.

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New article ‘More evolved than you: evolutionary spirituality as a frame for psychedelic experience’.

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'Im really concerned about true believers. You need to be detached enough to look at the data objectively.' Dr Mark Rapaport on psychedelics at FDA conference - yup!

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Imagine if the space industry was entirely focused on getting people into space, with zero focus, research or investment on safe returns and landings. That's basically the psychedelic industry in 2022.

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Here's a review of a new bestseller which explores the psychedelic roots of classical civilization and early Christianity. It shows the risk of psychedelic reductionism and acid hype. Be wary of Big Pharma selling you instant liberation.

The Immortality Key

A new best-seller shows the risks of psychedelic reductionism. Drugs aren’t the *only* way to God.

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The basics: 1) Your habitual self is made up of habitual thoughts 2) ‘You’ are not these habitual thoughts 3) You can train yourself not to identify with automatic thoughts 4) This gives you the capacity to change your ‘self’ and your reality

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We're never going to 'solve the mental health epidemic' because life involves suffering. Over-hyped promises could even increase suffering by making life seem unbearable and promising customers an instant solution. This is why VCs and mental health aren't always a good mix.

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@DAlperovitch But with much smaller Russian casualties? Is there any chance the army collapses or even mutinies? Wishful thinking probably

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Alan Watts, not sure When

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What do you do if you’re a Miami real estate agent who owes investors millions? Move to Mexico, open a psychefelic retreat, and start calling yourself Jesus. Another wild tale from the psychedelic renaissance

Sowilo: The Psychedelic Retreat From Hell

A Miami real estate agent turned messianic Bufo facilitator and cult leader provides a window into the shadow side of the psychedelic retreat industry.

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Great poster by @shayamsuseelan , presenting latest insights from the research of the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project. Shayam is a post-grad on our team and will be presenting the poster at the upcoming @mind_europe conference in Berlin - say hi if you're there!

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Rossell fears that, administered improperly, the drugs could give people bad trips and leave them with increased psychological issues. Her own unpublished research suggests that 10–20% of trial participants have a “really terrible time” with these drugs.

Australia to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin for PTSD and depression in world first

Nature - Decision to make the previously illicit drugs available is dogged by suggestions that it was rushed.

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Medieval Christian mystics suggested we should 'read' our mystical experiences in the same way we read a text – slowly, carefully, with discrimination, alive to multiple possible levels of meanings, aware of our own egotism, and above all *together*, in conversation with others.

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Imagine you’re Thomas Butts, an 18th century civil servant, and you commission a struggling artist to paint some scenes from the Bible, and he comes up with this.

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According to @UCBerkeley psychedelic survey, 25% of psychedelic usage in US is for artistic reasons (creativity and aesthetic appreciation?). Seems underresearched and underreported.

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@jonronson Raveonettes. Great song.

The Raveonettes - Recharge & Revolt

Music video by The Raveonettes performing Recharge & RevoltDownload new album Pe'ahi (2014): http://genio.us/ClickForPeahiDownload Raven in The Grave: http:/...

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Nice piece on possibility for mass 'ontological shock' as psychedelics go mainstream. Need to improve western culture's ecstatic literacy to mitigate post-trip fundamentalism, conspiracism, woo irrationalism or existential bewilderment (how one does that is interesting question)

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Are we prepared for all the worldview flips that are about to happen with the Psychedelic Renaissance? #psychedelics #consciousness #transpersonal

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Bioethicist Joseph Holcomb Adams and I wrote this on how to improve the ethics of psychedelic fund-raising, discussing issues around suggestibility and consent and the potential for financial exploitation.

Blurred Lines: improving the ethics of psychedelic fund-raising

Responsible psychedelic organisations should not seek funding from people during or in the days after a psychedelic experience.

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. @michaelpollan and Bob Jesse suggesting the time may have come to talk more about the risks of psychedelics #psychedelicscience2023

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Matthew was part of Johns Hopkins psychedelic lab, then left, and from previous statements it seems one area of disagreement was his concern that lab is promoting a spiritual vision more than doing data-driven science. He's expressed that concern publicly since 2018.

Matthew W. Johnson

@Drug_Researcher

9 months

Thought provoking piece about the imposition of religious philosophies into psychedelic science. I'm increasingly concerned about this, especially when scientists aren't forthcoming about how the research is conducted (e.g. introducing religious concepts; religious icons).

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@samthielman ‘You have to be eaten alive, HONEY’

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Psychedelic guides are shouldering the massive expectations generated by the psychedelic renaissance, yet are themselves underappreciated and underpaid. Here's six challenges that make their lives harder, and some suggested solutions.

Psychedelic workers of the world, unite!

Guides are shouldering the expectations generated by massive hype, but are underpaid, under-celebrated and sometimes exploited.

www.ecstaticintegration.org

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4 years

Something a student said yesterday: their generation has been given all the language to describe their pathologies and none of the ideas to deal with them.

CEP

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4 years

This report claims that nearly *half* of all women between 17-22 now have a 'possible/probable' 'mental disorder'. Doubtless, there's much distress in this age-group, but will depoliticizing & pathologizing it really generate the right solutions?

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'Nearly 60 percent of psychiatric patients want to discuss spirituality in the context of their treatment. Yet we rarely provide such an opportunity'.

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4 years

Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy has meant a huge amount to me since I was a teenager. But recently I've found myself questioning my faith. Is it true?

What can we learn from the perennial philosophy of Aldous Huxley? | Aeon Essays

Aldous Huxley argued that all religions in the world were underpinned by universal beliefs and experiences. Was he right?

aeon.co

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Jules Evans

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1 year

@Serotonin2arec They probably decide to be a guru

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6 months

Gabriel would smoke multiple hits of Bufo a day. He would get up and go round the room, shouting into people's faces 'what's my name?' until they replied 'Jesus Christ'. He would get particularly aggravated by anyone who was vaccinated.

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'I’ve reached a point now where I don’t do mushrooms in any heavy dose, because my last message was ‘you’re done with mushrooms for now’. I won’t go back because I know it’s going to be a dark journey.’ Carlos Plazola, cofounder Decriminalize Nature.

Decriminalize Nature and what Carlos Plazola did next

The controversial co-founder is shifting from policy to spiritual education

www.ecstaticintegration.org

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11 months

Yay our poster is up at #psychedelicscience2023 , come and check it out

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8 months

Another guru bites the dust.

Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse

Four women, including one who was just 16, make allegations after an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Jules Evans

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2 years

A long-read for the weekend. How the tiny Extropy newsletter led to transhumanism, which in turn led to Long-Termism, Rationalism and Effective Altruism. Subtitle: The Eugenics of Bliss.

How did transhumanism become the religion of the super-rich?

Once upon a time there was an obscure mailing list. It only had about 100 people on it, yet in this digital village was arguably the…

julesevans.medium.com

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8 months

'A woman tried 5-meo-DMT for the first time. And she sat with a facilitator, who demanded that while she was on medicine she had to keep her eyes open and gaze into his. That’s called imprinting.' On Eye-Gazing and Spiritual Pick-Up Artists.

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Jules Evans

@JulesEvans11

2 years

Here are ten basic principles for making sense of ecstatic experiences

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1 year

I wonder if another aspect of this is psychedelic fundamentalism - all you talk about is psychedelics, your last journey, your next journey, trying a new substance etc. Anyone encountered that sort of psychedelic fixation?

Jules Evans

@JulesEvans11

1 year

Ed Prideaux asks if psychedelics are more addictive than we think, in his latest essay for the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences project newsletter:

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Great analysis by @awaisaftab of problems with the widely-shared Guardian article by Rose Cartwright on how she rejected the 'medical model' and turned to underground psychedelic therapy instead.

People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another

The medical model in context

www.psychiatrymargins.com

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Where are you on the journey?

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