Researchers Claim DMT Can Connect You To A Parallel Universe

by Contributing Author | DMT, Psychedelics, Science

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]DMT or Dimethyltryptamine is a chemical compound produced naturally in the pineal gland inside your brain that belongs to the tryptamine family. This naturally occurring substance is produced and excreted by the pineal gland during...

BBC Asks: Can Cannabis Cure Cancer?

by Contributing Author | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health

For years, many caregivers and patients have been using cannabis extracts to directly treat cancer and dramatically reduce the side effects of chemotherapy. Despite the steady increase in remarkable success stories, the mainstream media has generally been reluctant to...

How to Pick Music for People on LSD, From a Scientist Whose Job That Is

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...

Ayahuasca in Bolivia (A Short Story)

by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics

Its early evening and Badi is looking out the fifth-story window of her new apartment perched in Cochabamba’s northern foothills. With the 18,000 foot peaks of Mount Tunari to her back, Badi’s apartment surveys the valley below. To the West, a clear view...

View all Breaking Convention 2015 Lectures

by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was fortunate enough to attend the Breaking Convention event this year, which was held in London UK. I was also fortunate enough to get onboard the team of volunteers at the event and film the lectures. The event took place over 3...

Cannabis: The Most Important Vegetable on the Planet

by Spirit Molecule | Cannabis, Psychedelics

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “If cannabis were discovered in the Amazon rainforest today, people would be clambering to make as much use as they could of all of the potential benefits of the plant. Unfortunately, it carries with it a long history of being...

Professor David Nutt: Why Banning LSD and Magic Mushrooms is the Worst Censorship of Medicine in World History

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...

Ayahuasca Treatment for Addiction

by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science

MAPS supports research into the safety and effectiveness of ayahuasca-assisted treatment for drug addiction. We also support conferences, meetings, and publications about the scientific, therapeutic, sustainable, and spiritual uses of ayahuasca. We also serve as a...

How Do You Know You’re Going to Have a Bad Trip?

by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics

Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of people who know what they’re talking about. Today, we try to parse how to tell if you are going to have a negative psychedelic experience. Though they’re illegal as ever, psychedelic drugs no longer have...

Magic Mushrooms Can Improve Psychological Health Long Term

by Contributing Author | Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science

The mushroom-derived hallucinogen, called psilocybin, is known to trigger transformative spiritual states, but at high doses, it can also result in “bad trips” marked by terror and panic. The trick is to get the dose just right, which the Johns Hopkins researchers...

Sex & Psychedelics: Are We Ready to See Through Separation for Good?

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...

Medicine’s Hidden Roots in an Ancient Manuscript

by Contributing Author | Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health

The first time Grigory Kessel held the ancient manuscript, its animal-hide pages more than 1,000 years old, it seemed oddly familiar. A Syriac scholar at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, Dr. Kessel was sitting in the library of the manuscript’s owner, a...

15 Mesmerizing Mosque Ceilings of Iran That Appear To Be Influenced By Psychedelia

by Spirit Molecule | Other, Psychedelics

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Islamic Mosques of Iran are known not only for their sacred significance but for their breathtaking architectural designs. With geometric patterns and an astonishing use of colour, these spiritual locations are among the most...

Reports of Contact with Entities in the DMT Space

by Contributing Author | DMT, DMT Entities, Psychedelics

Introduction This is a series of reports of DMT-smoking experiments which were conducted in 1996 by a woman about forty years of age with considerable previous experience of psychedelics but no previous experience of DMT (dimethyltryptamine). The smoking method used...

The Bridge Between DMT and Aliens?

by Spirit Molecule | DMT, DMT Entities, Psychedelics

I have been having the most vivid, realistic dreams lately – some are good, some are frightening, but some seem out-of-place. By out-of-place, I don’t mean a wacky dream of random archetypes – but something with a deeper, almost innate emotion involved. Usually, I can...

Cannabis, Consciousness and Common Sense

by Contributing Author | Cannabis, Psychedelics, Spirituality

Almost everyone (arguably) has used cannabis recreationally at one time or another. Most people see it as little more than a natural substance that can cause a temporary euphoria and yet, in some people’s opinions, it is a drug that creates laziness and a depleted...