As psychedelics are cautiously re-embraced back into the medical fold, what of their other social, spiritual and consciousness potentials? Are the man-made psychedelics psychic lubricants that have made possible the distributed consciousness of 21st century life?

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The medicine of the Bufo alvarius toad is a powerful tool to unlock human consciousness and reveal our full potential. As it spreads across the world via a network of practitioners nurturing a global community, we are witnessing and participating in a cultural shamanic movement.

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The Psychedelic Renaissance has finally achieved a legitimacy within mainstream culture and at the same time issues are arising around the commercialization of these medicines and the commodification of the sacred.

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Before the current surge of interest in psychedelics, before even the 1960s wave, these natural substances were part of our human heritage, our relationship with nature, and long lineages of shamanic mediation, for which indigenous people have been the caretakers.

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Shamans, healers and medicine people who are in service to their communities have been part of global culture for millennia. It’s a powerful role, but it’s been mythologized in the West because of the absence of that archetype: we killed all our medicine people over 500 years ago.

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I think a lot of the commentators around this issue default to very simplistic positions and there’s a lot more room for nuance. You know, it’s not as easy to say that organic or synthetic 5-MeO-DMT is better than the other.

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