How to Change Your Mind

to try. We have plenty of clues, and more now than before the renaissance of psychedelic science, but we ...

EPILOGUE In Praise of Neural Diversity IN APRIL 2017, the international psychedelic community gathered in the ...

Everyone, it seemed, was here, scientists rubbing shoulders with guides and shamans, veteran psychonauts, a lar ...

“There may be lots of promise here,” Insel said, “but it’s really easy to forget about issues related t ...

and widely available, in the form of a novel hybrid of pharmacology and psychotherapy. George Goldsmith envi ...

of the churches that use ayahuasca in a ritual context, administered by experienced elders in a group s ...

good for today’s researchers to disdain his “antics” and blame him for derailing the first wave of research, ...

to promote.” And yet, as we’ve talked, now over the course of three years, it’s become clear that he t ...

It is all too easy to dismiss what unfolds in our minds during a psychedelic journey as simply a “drug experi ...

community when the imaginative novelties proposed by altered states of consciousness introduce exactly the sort ...

For me, the psychedelic experience opened a door to a specific mode of consciousness that I can now occas ...

now hollowed-out trees in which my parents appeared to me, liable to topple in the next windstorm. Or the i ...

a more bodily experience than some other psychedelics. I did not get sick, but I was very much aware ...

my work and my imagination. That plants are intelligent I have believed for a long time—not necessarily ...

This is the view of quantum physics, not some psychonaut—though it is a very psychedelic theory. I menti ...

Glossary active placebo: A type of placebo used in drug trials to fool the volunteer into thinking ...

entactogen. entheogen: From the Greek, “generating the divine within.” A psychoactive substance that produces ...

holotropic breathwork: A breathing exercise developed in the mid 1970s by the psychedelic therapist Stanislav ...

public first learned about MK-Ultra during the Church Committee hearings on the CIA held in 1975; further h ...

set and setting: The inner and outer environments in which a drug experience takes place; “set” is a te ...