Here’s a wonderful article on how people with cluster headaches became unexpected psychedelic pioneers.
Read moreTrauma and Challenging Trips
A recent study has challenged the prevailing belief that childhood trauma influences the experiences individuals have with ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew traditionally used by Indigenous cultures for spiritual and healing purposes.
Read moreOprah Has a User's Guide for Psychedelics
Oprah’s website OprahDaily.com has published a guide to psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Read morePsilocybin for Anorexia
This psychiatric disorder, known for its high mortality rate, has long been a challenging condition to treat effectively.
The research, conducted at Monash University, revealed that psilocybin could improve cognitive flexibility and help maintain body weight in an animal model of AN.
Read morePsychedelics and Prolonged Grief Disorder
Randomized clinical trials demonstrated the efficacy of psilocybin in reducing symptom severity in depression and MDMA in reducing PTSD symptomatology.
Furthermore, psychedelics often produce subjective effects (such as transcendence, mystical experiences, and a sense of oneness) that may be uniquely relevant to the existential distress experienced in PGD.
Read moreStudy: Psychedelics and the Inner Healer
Reference to an intrinsic healing mechanism or an ‘inner healer’ is commonplace amongst psychedelic users.
Read morePsychological Flexibility and Psychedelics
In a new study, researchers found that psychological flexibility, several facets of mindfulness, and values-congruent living significantly improved following psilocybin and were maintained through week 16.
Additionally, improvements in psychological flexibility and experiential acceptance were strongly associated with reductions in depression severity following psilocybin.
Keep reading for the full article at Nature.com
Read moreCreating a Psilocybin Session Playlist
Psychedelic music session playlists have been utilized consistently for modern psychedelic-assisted therapy clinical trials, and more recently researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Imperial College of London have specifically studied the effect of these music playlists on participants in trials.
Read moreMeasuring the Potency of Mushrooms
Big news- a collaborative effort among scientists from the University of Texas at Arlington, Scottsdale Research Institute in Phoenix, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments in Maryland, and Millipore-Sigma in Round Rock, Texas, has led to the development of a new method for quantifying the potency of psilocybin and psilocin.
Read morePsychedelics and Self Perception
Psychedelics can help dissolve the individual ego, an outcome sought in many spiritual traditions.
This dissolution fosters the understanding that one is not an isolated entity but part of a larger system.
Read moreMore on HPPD
Here’s another look at HPPD, Hallucinogenic persistent perception disorder.
There are two types of HPPD: type 1 is characterised by brief "flashbacks", and type 2 sufferers experience chronic symptoms that can last months or a lifetime.
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