by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Other, Psychedelics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whether you’re tripping or not, these are 3 videos that anyone can appreciate. It’s important to note that while tripping you want to make sure you are in a safe place surrounded by love. Once you are in a good place mentally, watch...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Other, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Science
It’s easy to explain the appeal of drugs like heroin and cocaine, which directly stimulate the brain’s reward centres. What’s less easy to explain is the appeal of psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin that produce altered states of consciousness. After all,...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Other, Psychedelics
The Creative Process and Entheogens by Alex Grey, Published in MAPS Creativity issue Fall 2000 Twenty-five years ago I took my first dose of LSD. The experience was so rich and profound, coupled as it was with the meeting of my future wife, Allyson, that there seemed...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Since its 60s counterculture heyday, LSD has been closely associated with music. But it’s not just artistic proclivities that link them: Researchers have found that listening to music can actually affect the LSD experience on a...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics
The drug, which was favoured in the 1960s and 1970s and again in the 1990s, is seeing another resurgence. Despite recent trends for cocaine and MDMA, LSD usage is becoming more common in recent years. LSD – which abbreviates the chemical name lysergic acid...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Science, Spirituality
Psychedelic drugs, including LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, have long had an association with spiritual pursuits. For example, psychedelic plants, such as psilocybe mushrooms, peyote, and ayahuasca have long been used in shamanic traditions in the Americas (Lerner...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Psilocybin
Professor David Nutt is to drug science what David Attenborough is to the natural world. A renowned neuropsychopharmacologist based at Imperial College, London, Professor Nutt is famed for sparking debates around illegal drugs and government policies. He is one of a...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The first controlled LSD study in over 40 years was recently published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. The study consisted of 12 participants who suffer from “anxiety, depression, as well as unresolved family and...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Microdosing, Other, Psilocybin, Psychedelics
At the fifth annual Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics conference in New York City in October 2011, pioneering psychedelic researcher Dr. James Fadiman solidified his reemergence as a leading researcher of and advocate for psychedelic substances. Fadiman had done...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Other, Psychedelics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sex and Psychedelics go together more than bread and butter – we have only buttered bread for maybe thirty thousand years, but archaeology increasingly supports that humans have an intimate relationship with visionary plants and...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics
June 12th 1970: One of the most important days in sports history, a day perhaps bigger than any Stanley Cup victory, any World Series, or any Superbowl. 45 years ago today, Dock Ellis pitched an eight-walk, 2-0, no hit-victory while high on LSD. Ellis, who pitched for...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Microdosing, Other, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Self Actualization
As I write this I am consciously aware that I will give birth to more questions than answers, Yet I feel it is crucial and sane to open up the discussion on psychedelics into a new area of possibilities and understanding. I do feel that it is more important not to shy...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Psychedelics
A remarkable 1963 study [pdf] from the Archives of Opthalmology in which 24 blind participants took LSD to see if they could experience visual hallucinations. Those blind from a very early age (younger than2 years old) did not report visual hallucinations, probably...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Microdosing, Psychedelics, Self Actualization
You’ve been lied to about so many things, haven’t you? Money, God, meat, drugs, sex, gluten, which wine goes best with fish – it’s all a ruse, a set of weirdly hardwired myths we’re trained to cling to, feverishly, until we die. Who’s to blame? Obama? Jesus? The...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Other, Psychedelics
The great French cinema publication Cahier du Cinéma has declared November their month of psychedelic cinema. In celebration, they’ve been uploading clips from their list of classic psychedelic films to their Facebook page. To pay respects to Cahier du Cinéma, here’s...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Psychedelics, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris has boldly gone where no man has gone in over 40 years: he is the first person in the UK to have legally administered doses of LSD to human volunteers since the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971. Dr....
