How to Change Your Mind

Originally published in Harvard Review (Summer 1963) and reprinted in Timothy Leary and James Penner, Timothy Lea ...

A version of the guidelines can also be found in James Fadiman’s book The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Saf ...

I subsequently learned that hyperventilation, which plays a role in breathwork, changes the CO2 levels of ...

Family constellation therapy, which was founded by a German therapist named Bert Hellinger, focuses on the ...

Henri Michaux, a contemporary of Huxley’s who also wrote about his psychedelic experiences, took a ve ...

Specifically, I took the Revised Mystical Experience Questionnaire, or MEQ30. ...

“Kelson” is a nautical term for a structural member in the hull of a boat. ...

Or at least fifty-five years, because I think young children have ready access to these kinds of expe ...

In his 2012 book, Drugs Without the Hot Air, Nutt writes that “psychedelics overall are among the safest d ...

The key structures making up the default mode network are the medial prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate cor ...

It’s important to keep in mind the limitations of fMRI and other neuroimaging technologies. Most of t ...

I’m using the terms more or less interchangeably here. However, the ego, being closely associated with ...

It’s worth noting that these findings seem to be at odds with Amanda Feilding’s initial hypothesis ...

David Nutt and Amanda Feilding are coauthors. ...

Brewer has since moved to the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he’s the director of researc ...

Exactly how psychedelics accomplish this, neurochemically, is still uncertain, but some of Carhart-Harris’s ...

This research was published in 2017: Matthew M. Nour et al., “Psychedelics, Personality, and Political ...

The panel was recorded and is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=v2VzRMevUXg. ...

As in the case of many drugs, the SSRI antidepressants introduced in the 1980s were much more effective ...

The statistical “effect size” of these results—at or above 1.0 for most of the outcome measures used in both ...