by Contributing Author | Cacti, Other, Psychedelics
Trichocereus Pachanoi, aka San Pedro, is a columnar cactus native to the Andean mountains of Peru, and Ecuador. Some of the indigenous names for San Pedro are: huachuma, chuma, and wachuma. It is one of the four most sacred plants of Peru, along with Tobacco,...
by Spirit Molecule | LSD, Microdosing, Psychedelics, Self Actualization
“So, I don’t think there is such a thing as recreational LSD use,” veteran Silicon Valley engineer Kevin Herbert said wryly. “I would be at a Grateful Dead show, high on LSD … and something about my work would just come to me.”...
by Contributing Author | Other, Psychedelics
The United Nations says the drug war’s rationale is to build “a drug-free world — we can do it!” U.S. government officials agree, stressing that “there is no such thing as recreational drug use.” So this isn’t a war to stop addiction, like that in my family, or...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics
The world is on the brink of discovering that through psychedelics, we can drastically positively alter how we think and potentially destroy destructive opiate addictions. In a article from newscientist.com, the writer who wishes to remain anonymous went into a small...
by Contributing Author | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Safety & Harm Reduction, Science
A 2012 Duke University study made international headlines when it purported to find a link between heavy marijuana use and IQ decline among teenagers. Other researchers questioned the findings almost immediately: Columbia University’s Carl Hart noted the very...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics, Salvia Divinorum, Science
Salvia divinorum is a perennial Mexican herb from the labiate (mint) family (Epling & Jativa, 1962) that has a history of use chiefly for the initiation and facilitation of shamanic practice among such peoples as the Mazatec Indians of the Sierra Mazateca region...
by Contributing Author | LSD, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
Scientific study often opens new doors of discovery—but sometimes it reopens doors closed long ago. On Tuesday, experimental psychiatrists in Santa Cruz, California published results from the first controlled medical trial of LSD in over 40 years. The study, published...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
Those are the findings by neuroscience researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, who reported that LSD, psilocybin and mescaline not only don’t cause long-term mental health problems, but that in many cases the use of...
by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
Just before dusk, 18 strangers entered a yurt on a Midwestern homestead. Peruvian tapestries decorated the walls of the large, round structure, and rattles stood poised for ceremony. The participants — professional men and women ages 35 to 65 — put on comfortable...
by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics
A dimension is a range of electromagnetic frequencies that is defined by one’s biological capacity to perceive them. The visible spectrum of light is an example of an aspect of a dimension of reality. Anything above the visible spectrum, like ultraviolet, for...
by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics, Spirituality
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are...
by Contributing Author | Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
Psychedelic substances such as ecstasy, LSD and magic mushrooms have been deemed illegal by the government and have been largely dismissed by the medical establishment although they may offer a potential treatment for illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder...
by Spirit Molecule | Cannabis, Psychedelics
Sensory Deprivation Tanks otherwise known as Isolation Tanks or Float Tanks are becoming a popular method of reaching altered states of consciousness and meditative states without any drugs. Despite the somewhat intimidating sounding name, Float Tanks are actually...
by Contributing Author | Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Spirituality
A universal mystical experience with life-changing effects can be produced by the hallucinogen contained in magic mushrooms, scientists claimed yesterday. Forty years after Timothy Leary, the apostle of drug-induced mysticism, urged his 1960s hippie followers to...
by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
Depression, anxiety, and addiction are among the most common illnesses that plague the western world today. It seems that every second person is either taking some form of anti-depressant or self-medicating themselves with alcohol or recreational drugs. This...
by Lauren Slater | Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
Pam Sakuda was 55 when she found out she was dying. Shortly after having a tumor removed from her colon, she heard the doctor’s dreaded words: Stage 4; metastatic. Sakuda was given 6 to 14 months to live. Determined to slow her disease’s insidious course, she ran...