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Fashioning Normal
“If schizophrenia is the domain of the slovenly, I stand outside its borders.” By Esmé Weijun Wang,
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Scientists have a new way to study mystical experiences induced by psilocybin mushrooms
Mystical experiences reported after taking clinically-controlled doses of the psychedelic substance psilocybin are similar across individuals, according to a report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology... By David Hayward.
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Why do some hallucinogens cause universal hallucinations?
Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of people who know what they’re talking about. Today we ask the experts about common visions while tripping on psychoactive substances.
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A Field Guide to Psychedelics
The unusual couple behind an online encyclopedia of psychoactive substances. By Emily Witt.
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When Hearing Voices Is a Good Thing
A new study suggests that schizophrenic people in more collectivist societies sometimes think their auditory hallucinations are helpful. By Olga Khazan.
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Is the world real, or is it just an illusion or hallucination?
We asked renowned neuroscientists, physicists, psychologists, technology theorists and hallucinogen researchers if we can ever tell that the "reality" we are experiencing is "real." By Marina Galperina.
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Oliver Sacks on the Kind of Hallucination He Would Liked to Have Had
The late neuroscientist spoke to Motherboard in 2012. By Alex Pasternack.
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The Mind-Bending History Of Buddhism And Psychedelics
Do substances like LSD and psilocybin have a place in a dharma practice?
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The Hidden Trippers: Women who redefined Psychedelia
Psychedelia today is coming of an age again. Millions of us from India have hopefully joined a journey into our souls, beyond history and religion – into the beginning. Armed with the knowledge of ancient spirit herbs like mushrooms, Ayahuasca and the modern science of LSD; a dedicated few in the modern era have processed information like Aldous Huxley, Terrence McKenna and our very own plant whisperer, Amit Tida.
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Terence McKenna’s Disillusioned Perspective on Mass-Consumerist Culture
“We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow.” — Terence McKenna. By Jordan Bates.
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The Semantics of "God", by Robert Anton Wilson
Article published in The Realist in May 1959.
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A dream-traveller’s guide to the sleeping mind
Almost 100 years ago, an English aristocrat found the secrets of dream control. Her adventures explored the limits of consciousness – which modern science has only now rediscovered. By David Robson.
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Psychedelic Initiation and the Ecological Mega-Crisis
Talk from Daniel Pinchbeck at Breaking Convention: 3rd International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, University of Greenwich, 10-12th July, 2015.
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Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank
Just when you crave one more sensual hit, the void of the float tank stops time, strips ego and unleashes the mind. By M. M. Owen.
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Oh God, Someone Ran Fear and Loathing Through Google’s Neural Network
By now, the entire internet’s realized that Deep Dream, Google’s artificial neural network, is capable of some pretty trippy images. But what happens when you run a movie about acid trips through the acid trip generator? Fear and Loathing in your worst nightmares, that’s what.
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Wade Davis walks on the wild side
A talk with anthropologist and author Wade Davis
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The Soviet Military Secret That Could Become Alaska’s Most Valuable Crop
Al Poindexter’s front yard in the south-central plain of Alaska has been taken over by a spread of more than 2,000 cell trays, each growing dozens of plants...
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Hollow Earth: A Travel Guide
Robin Ince takes listeners on a tour of a world beneath the earth's crust. [Audio]
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Scientists Can Make You Feel Ghosts
New technology creates digital ghosts to help the psychotic.
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The Use of DMT in Early Masonic Ritual
The psychoactive nature of acacia was fairly widely known in certain Masonic circles at least up until the late 1700s. However, some time between the mid to late 18th century and the 19th century occult revival, the secrets of acacia, like the true word of a Master Mason, appear to have been lost.
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