How to Change Your Mind

I can think of a couple of ways to account for such a phenomenon, neither entirely satisfying. The most ...

occur to me that spending time in this area might actually be far more important and far more ful ...

psychedelics. (Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing ...

them apart was not difficult, rendering the double blind a somewhat hollow conceit: those on the placebo sat ...

in a handful of manuscripts squirreled away in monasteries. However, in this case, considerably less t ...

accompanied by loud drumming. Yet Esalen’s role in the history of psychedelics did not end with their prohi ...

took. Most of the gathering was taken up with discussions of the potential medical applications of psychedeli ...

psychedelic himself; Roland Griffiths had told me he thought it was possible. (“Bob was a jazz musician,” ...

changed him.” Griffiths had shared with Schuster his growing dissatisfaction with science and his deepening inte ...

Jesse in 1998, and met Roland Griffiths shortly thereafter, he couldn’t quite believe his good fortune. “It was ...

Descriptions of such experiences always sound a little thin, at least when compared with the emotional ...

Maslow was talking about with his ‘peak experiences,’ though Abe could get there without the drugs.” Richards wo ...

religious and mental health professionals, and patients with severe personality disorders. Several hundred patients ...

with “the snicker test”: How would your colleagues react when you told them you were running experiments ...

that comes out of the primary mystical experience that it can be threatening to existing hierarchical struc ...

the DEA. (Many of Griffiths’s Hopkins colleagues were skeptical of the proposal, worried psychedelic research ...

University research with entheogens (roughly, God-evoking substances such as peyote and sacred mushrooms) has ...

we needed to control for Bill’s biases.” All of the volunteers were “hallucinogen naive,” so had no idea what ...

This careful preparation means that a certain expectancy effect is probably unavoidable. After all, the r ...

to take it all in and engage with whatever you find there, but you can be confident that we’ll be here ...