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Selecting Music for Psychedelic Therapy

By Pierre Bouchard, LPC As a professional DJ and full-time psychotherapist offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy sessions, I love selecting music for ...
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July 21, 2020 / Blog

The Second Pandemic: Is Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy the Answer to the Mental Health Crisis Caused by COVID-19?

By: Jeff Kronenfeld Mental health has become one of the central themes of 2020 thanks to COVID-19 and the resulting ...
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July 20, 2020 / Blog

Not All Ayahuasca is Made Equal

By Jasmine Virdi As the use of ayahuasca becomes increasingly widespread, the Amazonian vine has extended its roots beyond the ...
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June 8, 2020 / Blog

Black Lives Matter: A Note from our Team on a Matter of Oppression

Psychedelics Today stands in solidarity. As a media company at the forefront of many tough psychedelic conversations, we are looking ...
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June 3, 2020 / Blog

Mystical Experience and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: Insights from Guided-Imagery Therapy with Cancer Patients

By Jerry B. Brown and Julie M. Brown "There is something about the core of this experience that opens people ...
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May 28, 2020 / Blog

Everything You Need To Know About Psychedelic Integration

Jasmine Virdi Undoubtedly, psychedelics are valuable tools for self-understanding, transformation, and healing, enabling us to peer into our inner workings ...
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May 27, 2020 / Blog

Musings around Psychedelic Integration Therapy

By: Debbie Kadagian, LCSW, HHC Throughout my twenties, I spent a lot of time wondering what the meaning of my ...
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May 26, 2020 / Blog

Psychedelic Cannabis: Using the Plant for Healing Trauma

When we think of psychedelics, we don’t often think of cannabis. But in an era when people are turning to ...
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May 18, 2020 / Blog

Bipolar and Psychedelics: An Investigation into the Potential and Risks

Is there more to this issue than the community would make us think? By Michelle JanikianFor decades the consensus of ...
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May 11, 2020 / Blog

Stanislav Grof’s new Training program

Some interesting developments today in the world of Holotropic Breathwork & Dr. Stanislav Grof. Stan and his wife Brigitte issued ...
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May 4, 2020 / Blog

Remembering Kilindi Iyi

By Joe Moore: In 2014 I became aware of a gentleman named Kilindi Iyi in Detroit, Michigan. He was doing ...
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April 11, 2020 / Blog

Psychedelics in Addiction Recovery: Taking a Deep Look at “Sober” Communities that Use Psychedelics

Michelle Janikian Psychedelics in Addiction Recovery: Taking a Deep Look at “Sober” Communities that Use Psychedelics Michelle Janikian The recovery ...
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April 8, 2020 / Blog

How to Become a Psychedelic Therapist: From Clinical Trials to Integration Therapy and Everything in Between

Michelle Janikian More people than ever are curious to try psychedelics for mental health and personal growth. But even though ...
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February 21, 2020 / Blog

Should Breakthrough Psychedelic Research Make Us Question Our Assumptions About Mental Illness?

By: Jonathan Dinsmore Since the lifting of the irrational 30-year ban on psychedelic research around the turn of the millennium, ...
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February 19, 2020 / Blog

Psychedelic Exceptionalism and Reframing Drug Narratives: An Interview with Dr. Carl Hart

By Sean Lawlor Dr. Carl Hart is neuropsychopharmacologist and Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Psychology. His research, which focuses ...
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February 18, 2020 / Blog

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Psychedelics and the Default Mode Network

by Jasmine Virdi Modern neuroscience has demonstrated that psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, as ...
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February 4, 2020 / Blog

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze: The Impact of Climate Change, Development, and Psychonauts on the Sonoran Desert Toad

By Jeff Kronenfeld - Dec. 17, 2019 Sonoran Desert toads emerge from earthly tombs every year after the late summer ...
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December 17, 2019 / Blog

Psychedelics in Your Neighborhood

Zoe Moynihan - December 10, 2019 The psychedelic revolution is upon us. After receiving an FDA “Breakthrough Therapy” designation for ...
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December 10, 2019 / Blog

Taking a Deep Look at Psilocybin for Depression Research

Michelle Janikian Psilocybin for depression is becoming a major avenue of clinical research. The Usona Institute out of Madison, Wisconsin ...
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November 13, 2019 / Blog

John B. Cobb – Whitehead and Psychedelics – Part 4

This is the fourth and final blog of a podcast recorded in John Cobb's apartment in Claremont, California. This was ...
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November 7, 2019 / Blog

John B. Cobb – Whitehead and Psychedelics – Part 3

This is part three in a four-part series recorded in John Cobb's apartment in Claremont, California. This was recorded during ...
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November 7, 2019 / Blog

John B. Cobb – Whitehead and Psychedelics – Part 2

This is part two in a four-part series recorded in John Cobb's apartment in Claremont, California. This was recorded during ...
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November 6, 2019 / Blog

John B. Cobb – Whitehead and Psychedelics – Part 1

This is part one in a four-part series. Kyle, Joe and Johanna Hilla were able to spend time recording with ...
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November 6, 2019 / Blog

What’s the Psychedelic Community Talking About? Three Main Takeaways from the 2019 Horizon’s Conference

In the heart of Manhattan’s busy Greenwich Village, the Horizon’s Conference: Perspectives on Psychedelics, graced the Cooper Union Great Hall ...
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October 19, 2019 / Blog

Confronting Alcohol Dependence and Depression with Microdosing — One Woman’s Quest for Healing

After years of seeking refuge at the bottom of a bottle, Karen Shaw’s experimentation with psilocybin yielded unexpected discoveries… and ...
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September 26, 2019 / Blog

Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Says Psychedelic Disobedience Can Address the Climate Crisis

Extinction Rebellion has become the most well-known climate justice movement in history. With over 100,000 members and worldwide protests regularly ...
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September 25, 2019 / Blog

Naropa is doing DMT Research. You can contribute!!

Psychedelics Today is sharing this research project from Naropa in hopes that some with adequate experience may contribute! Below is ...
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September 13, 2019 / Blog

Ayahuasca – The Science of the Vine

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive tea traditionally used by indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest for its powerful healing, purgative, divinatory, ...
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August 26, 2019 / Blog

Interview with Leading DMT Researcher Dr. Jimo Borjigin [Guest Post – John Chavez]

Originally published: https://www.dmtquest.org/blog/new-interview-with-leading-dmt-researcher-dr-jimo-borjigin These are the people who toil away in obscurity for years doing the hard lab work with ...
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August 25, 2019 / Blog

A statement regarding the misinterpretation and misrepresentation of the study of 5-MeO-DMT

A single inhalation of vapor from dried toad secretion containing 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) in a naturalistic setting is related to sustained ...
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May 15, 2019 / Blog

Call-to-Action for Ethical Space-Holding

With the resurgence of psychedelics and the important research into the many therapeutic benefits - from Ketamine for treatment-resistant depression, ...
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May 14, 2019 / Blog

Sean McAllister speaking about the successful mushroom decriminalization initiative in Denver

On May 8th, the city of Denver, Colorado voted yes on I-301, which decriminalizes the possession and use of psilocybin-containing ...
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May 11, 2019 / Blog

The Future of Medical Ibogaine

Ibogaine is a psychedelic chemical found in the West African shrub Iboga. Bizarre in chemical structure and psychoactive properties, the ...
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April 22, 2019 / Blog

Psychedelic Integration: The Importance of Community and a Daily Practice

This interview was transcribed from our Navigating Psychedelics: Lessons on Self-Care & Integration master class with Elizabeth Gibson of Dreamshadow ...
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March 22, 2019 / Blog

A Brief History of Psychedelics in the Western World

This is an edited transcript from a podcast that was recorded live in Bolten Valley, Vermont for a MAPS Psychedelic ...
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November 17, 2018 / Blog

Statement on MycoMeditations

Psychedelics Today has withdrawn support and endorsement for MycoMeditations, a legal psychedelic retreat company located in Jamaica We have been ...
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October 24, 2018 / Blog

The Ethical and Ecological Considerations of Inhaling Bufotoxins from Incilius Alvarius

by Malin Vedøy Uthaug, Ph.D. student at the University of Maastricht, Department of Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology. The consumption of 5-MeO-DMT ...
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October 3, 2018 / Blog

Rapid Depression Remission and the “Therapeutic Bends” with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Dr. Jessica Katzman at Healing Realms For the first time in nearly three decades, novel classes of medication are being offered to ...
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September 8, 2018 / Blog, ketamine, psychedelic therapy

So, You Want To Find a Psychedelic Guide?

Psychedelic science and research has been getting a lot of mainstream media attention over the years and for good reason ...
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July 12, 2018 / Blog

Navigating Your Way Through the Psychedelic Field: How to Get Involved

Psychedelics: A Re-Emerging Field As psychedelic research re-emerges from its dark ages, the world is beginning to learn about their ...
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May 29, 2018 / Blog

Why is Psilocin Orally Active?

Originally published: http://altdotmind.com/why-is-psilocin-orally-active/ This is the third article in a series on psychedelic chemistry, and the final article focusing on the ...
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January 15, 2018 / Blog

An Introduction to Psychedelic Tryptamine Chemistry

Originally published: http://altdotmind.com/an-introduction-to-psychedelic-tryptamine-chemistry/ The ensuing series of articles are intended for the general reader that, like myself, have an appreciation for ...
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January 5, 2018 / Blog

Ibogaine Treatment: A Psychedelic Answer to Opiate and Heroin Addiction

The use of heroin and abuse of opiate pain-relievers has reached an all-time high in the USA. The addictive nature ...
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December 23, 2017 / Blog

Tips on Creating Your Own Psychedelic Group

As psychedelic research progresses, people are starting to feel more comfortable with talking about their life-changing experiences with psychedelic substances ...
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November 8, 2017 / Blog

For the Use of Entheogens – Ibogaine

How can we use our mind, intellect, or heart to diffuse or address the origin of our problems that arise ...
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May 26, 2017 / Blog

MDMA – Confessions of an Underground MDMA Therapist

"Can I use my mind as a tool to help me open a closed heart?" We talked to a 79-year-old ...
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April 3, 2017 / Blog

Interview with Natalie Ginsberg: Global Psychedelic Policy and Advocacy

"Through my lens, so many problems in this world are driven by people acting from a reactionary place of fear ...
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March 16, 2017 / Blog

Interview with Brian Normand: Psymposia Magazine and How to Get Involved

Kyle and Joe chatted with Brian Normand, Co-Founder of Psymposia, about the development of Psymposia and the online magazine that ...
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January 4, 2017 / Blog