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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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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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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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Fashioning Normal
“If schizophrenia is the domain of the slovenly, I stand outside its borders.” By Esmé Weijun Wang,
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Subterranean Psychonaut
He stood naked by the roadside with a blanket draped around his hips, feebly reaching out for the glimmering cars as they passed in the morning light. He was almost too hideous to look at... By Michael Mason, Chris Sandel and Lee Roy Chapman. (2013)
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The Long, Strange Trip of the Chemists Behind the Legendary LSD ‘Orange Sunshine’
‘The Sunshine Makers’ is a new documentary that shares the untold story of the chemists-turned-criminals who altered the psychedelic world. By Michael Barron.
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Meet the Only Doctor in the World Legally Allowed to Use LSD to Treat Patients
Last year, Swiss psychiatrist Peter Gasser received permission from his government to use acid in his practice, which he says can help people deal with anxiety and fear of death, among other things. By Kevin Franciotti.
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Soma, Spice and Substance D: A History of Drugs in Science Fiction
Ever since humans have been telling stories, we've been telling stories about drugs. By Brian Merchant.
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Acid Tests Turn 50: Wavy Gravy, Merry Prankster Ken Babbs Look Back
Participants recall seminal psychedelic happenings where Beats, Del Close held court and seeds of Grateful Dead were sown.
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Italy’s mysterious hallucinogenic drink
The subject of local legends, this mysterious ruby-coloured cocktail is known for its high alcohol content, obscure ingredients and hallucinogenic effects.
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I Tried to Trip Using Only My Breath
Breathwork was born out of LSD research in the 1960s, and suggests that by hyperventilating, you can experience the same feeling as an acid trip. By Conor Creighton.
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Why do people use flotation tanks?
Flotation tanks have been a part of new-age lifestyles for decades, but in the last five years the number of people using them has soared. By Tom Ireland.
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I Drilled a Hole in My Own Skull to Stay High Forever
Joe Mellen is a 76-year-old former beatnik who turned on, tuned in, dropped out, and used an electric drill to make a hole in his skull. By John Doran.
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Can We Explain Hallucinations?
Hallucination, what is it? Free wandering of the mind, the ability to see parallel universes, a soul’s flight through a continuum of variants, or just a brain malfunction? Is it a disease or a normal physiological reaction to a specific stimulus or set of stimuli? By Viatcheslav Wlassoff.
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What It’s Like to Have Your Severe Depression Treated With a Hallucinogenic Drug
“It’s like you’re watching your own brain.”
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The Trip Treatment
Research into psychedelics may hold a key to coping with anxiety, addiction, and existential dread. Michael Pollan on psilocybin. (Feb ’15)
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Beat The Drum Slowly
Timber Timbre
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Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness
Drugs researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens. By Zoe Cormier.
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An Amazon Without Certainty
It’s a story as old as Alexander von Humboldt: white explorer treks into the Amazon, becomes lost and disoriented, paints face with mud, eats beetles, and has visions of galaxies and exotic reptiles, before finally achieving enlightenment—or total madness. But Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent is strange enough to resist the worst of the old clichés, which is to say it resists moral certainty. By Nathaniel Rich.
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The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia
Jesse Jarnow’s new book complicates and extends the history of LSD and sixties counterculture.
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