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“Three hundred and fifty years ago, Shulgin notes, the Church proclaimed, “The earth is the center of the universe, and anyone who says otherwise is a heretic.” Today, the government proclaims, “All drugs that can expand consciousness are without medical or social justification, and anyone who uses them is a criminal.” In Galileo’s time, the authorities said, “We do not need to actually look through that mysterious contraption.” Now the government says, “There is no need to actually taste those mysterious compounds.” In the past, the Church said, “How dare you claim that the earth is not the center of the universe?” Today the government says, “How dare you to claim that an understanding of God is to be found in a white powder?”(DANIEL PINCHBECK)

For those who follow my work, it will be no surprise that the topic I research the most is Psychedelics. In this post, I will share with you some of the hidden gems of my recent journey through the psychedelic digital jungle of interesting articles, podcast, and studies that I have found.

Psychedelics help to accelerate a maturation process, where we can see that we’re not operating within silos. Instead, we’re operating as part of a larger collective and part of a larger community. Thanks to the revival of psychedelic science, we’ve (re)discovered that psychedelic therapy can benefit sufferers of severely debilitating conditions where current treatments fail. We’ve started to develop an understanding of what psychedelics do to the brain, and how psychedelics can have such transformative power…


PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOMS CAN BOOST CREATIVITY AND EMPATHY FOR A WEEK

“We found that psilocybin, when taken in a naturalistic setting, increased aspects of creativity and empathy the morning after, and 7 days after use,” researcher Natasha Mason told PsyPost. “Furthermore, psilocybin also enhanced subjective well-being.”

Women of Visionary Art: Interview with David Jay Brown and Rebecca Ann Hill

Visionary art is important because art is important and psychedelics and visionary states are important. There has certainly been a huge influx of visionary art over the past 10 or 20 years, but I see it as stretching back to something ancient, an old tradition of capturing shamanic or visionary experiences. We have in our book art that goes back for thousands of years to the cave wall paintings of France, images that look like people transforming into animals and animals transforming into people. These cave paintings give us some type of inkling about the origins of visionary art, but modern visionary art as we know it grew out of surrealism and psychedelic art and some of the earlier art movements in the 20th century.

LSD-Fueled Innovation From Your Friends at Silicon Valley

Could the iPhone have been born from the depths of an LSD trip? Steve Jobs tripped on acid a lot in college. It very well could be possible. But pairing drugs with any sort of productivity often receives pushback. Open up a little bit, and let your conceptions be shaken. It may very well be the case that many modern silicon valley innovations may be coming from psychedelic microdosing.


Microdosing Psychedelic Drugs Was Just Found to Reduce Anxiety and Depression

"Our study demonstrates that psychedelics can produce beneficial behavioral effects without drastically altering perception, which is a critical step towards producing viable medicines inspired by these compounds," said David Olson of UC Davis, who led the research team.

The environmental impacts of MDMA production warrant consideration

The protection of rare species and the illegal drug trade may at first seem entirely unrelated. However, the environmental impacts of illicit drug production are very real. Because these markets remain underground, they cannot be held accountable for their disastrous impacts on our planet. Currently, one tropical plant is being decimated to produce the illicit drug MDMA.

Highly Accredited Doctor States “MDMA Not Too Dangerous”

According to the doctor, the drug is “not that dangerous” when taken in “pure form.” The real danger lies in the illegal market that the drug functions in. People don’t know what they are taking and its almost impossible to tell. He said all this on a podcast called “Triggered.” The GP went into how the drug causes self-excitement but at the same time limits an individuals ability to self-regulate their temperature.


Native American Church Works to Conserve, Sustain Peyote

Back in the day, when the “grandmas and grandpas” of the Native American Church (NAC) needed peyote, they would make a 2,000-kilometer pilgrimage from the reservations of South Dakota to the tiny town of Mirando City, Texas, close to the U.S. border with Mexico. That’s where they could find Amada Cardenas, a Mexican-American woman who at the time was the only peyote dealer in Texas.

Ayahuasca Can Help Us Heal Deep Wounds of Global History

Many of those trees have healing properties. By some measures there are eighty thousand different species of plants in the Amazon rainforest. Anthropologists say that it is common among indigenous lore to hear that recipes for the medicine plant brews, such as ayahuasca, were first learnt by Indigenous Amazonian shamans in altered states of consciousness. Ayahuasca and similar plants are often called teachers and they are communicated with by a shaman when he or she diets with the particular plant. Non-indigenous people have only recently begun to start understanding the role of teacher plant dietas in such learning processes.

The Acid King, Leonard Pickard, in his own words

Rolling Stone called him The Acid King. Fans call his long sentence a massive injustice. Now, his fans are celebrating the book he wrote from a cell, called "The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments."

It's a crazy story of an international clan of secret LSD chemists who cook up millions of doses using elaborate clandestine methods. They live a fantastic lifestyle of high luxury and monastic poverty, daringly escaping detection and battling forces arrayed against them. They train ex-hippies to infiltrate the government to spy on the DEA. They perform magic and do telepathy and channel strange forces like sorcerers.

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