Research on lucid dreams is still in its infancy, but some induction techniques already hold real promise - and most can be tried in the comfort of your own bedroom. By Achilleas Pavlou.

B.C. native Sebastian Woodroffe went to Peru seeking enlightenment through mind-altering drugs. Then he and his shaman ended up dead. By Scott Anderson.

Fourteen sailors from the Ronald Reagan’s nuclear reactor department face discipline in connection to hallucinogenic drug abuse, officials said. By Geoff Ziezulewicz.

Decades after a risky Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets. By Raffi Khatchadourian.

An analysis of wastewater finds that significant amounts of drugs were consumed during the solar eclipse. By Nathaniel Scharping.

Near-death experiences are caused by changes in how the brain operates, say researchers. By Alex Therrien.

Disney

Mississippi, murder, and William Eggleston’s “Red Ceiling.” By Will Stephenson

People who have experienced the so-called DMT trip usually say that it transcends words, but they often feel compelled to speak incessantly about it anyway. Learn about the artworks that display these beings in spectacular form. By Des Tramacchi, PhD.

Who Killed Hunter S Thompson? is a big and beautiful compendium of friends’ reminiscences of the infamous writer. By Scott Bradfield.

Tool

Attendees at a Dutch music festival volunteer to be tested while wearing something called a 'God helmet' and some of the results were surprising. By Paul Seaburn.

It's an impediment to medical research on ayahuasca's potential to treat mental health disorders.

At the center of the new psychedelic renaissance is an Amazonian tea called ayahuasca, which contains dimethyltryptamine or DMT, one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to science. Traditionally brewed by indigenous shamans in places like Peru and Brazil, ayahuasca is gaining more mainstream appeal for its purported use in treating addiction, treatment-resistant depression and …

A Boom interview with Simeon Wade. By Heather Dundas.

MDMA photo via Flickr user Kripos_NCIS You may have heard that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently designated MDMA a ‘breakthrough therapy’—but what the heck does that mean?   Currently, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is studying MDMA for its usefulness in treating extreme post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in conjunction with psychotherapy. They are …

Writer Wells Tower traveled to the jungles of Peru to experience an ancient ritual. What happened next pushed him to his limits. 

Mr. Sand earned a reputation in the 1960s for making some of the purest LSD on the market, including Orange Sunshine, before the law finally caught up with him. By Williiam Grimes.

When tracing the history of groovy patterns and far-out typography unique to psychedelic design, the Doors of Perception don’t always open onto the 1960s.

Jesse Jarnow’s new book complicates and extends the history of LSD and sixties counterculture. By Hua Hsu. (May 17, 2016)