In this podcast, hear from the world’s leading clinical psychedelic researchers on the latest science for how psychedelics can be effective therapies for difficult-to-treat physical conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic-Lyme disease and phantom-limb pain.
Read moreAwe and Psychedelics
What makes the psychedelic experience so healing? It could be “awe”.
Read moreEating Disorders and Psychedelics
In a survey of over 5,200 people surveyed about their eating disorders, slightly more than 1000 said they’d used psychedelics in the last 12 months — and a qualitative analysis of responses from 200 of those participants, published in Journal of Eating Disorders, suggests that the drugs helped them.
Read morePsychedelics: Risks and Benefits
Public health professional and psychedelic harm reduction advocate Kristin Nash, whose college-aged son died while under the influence of psilocybin and LSD, argues that psychedelic risks must be made clear to the public.
Psychedelic Tourism
Professor Ribas-Casasayas discusses perspectives on psychedelics from Latin American.
Read morePsychedelics and Shamanism
Anthropologist Manvir Singh discusses convergences between shamanism and psychedelics, and their role in modern spirituality.
Read morePost-Psychedelic Difficulties
The findings suggest that while anxiety and panic are among the most disruptive, issues like existential struggle and diminished self-esteem tend to last the longest—often persisting for over a year.
Read moreReligious Leaders and Psychedelics
Psychedelic Capitalism
Most debates about psychedelics have offered little critical analysis of their relationship to the political economy of modern capitalism and broader power structures.
In the new book "Psychedelic Capitalism," the authors explore these themes.
Read moreRight Hemisphere and Psychedelics
Known as HEALS—Hemispheric Annealing and Lateralization Under Psychedelics—this model proposes that psychedelics disrupt the typical hierarchy between hemispheres, releasing the more holistic, emotionally intelligent right side from left-brain control.
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