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DMT Genesis

In the beginning of the DMT: The Spirit Molecule documentary Rick Strassman MD says modestly: “DMT is a compound in the brain that can elicit the mystical experience.”

Psychedelics, Video

Remembering Who and What We Really Are: The Weaponization of Psychedelics

Over the years, my work with psychedelics has focused on what is genuinely happening, not just in terms of what these substances are doing to our brain chemistry, or their medicalization, but their profound spiritual components.

Psychedelics, Video

The Psychedelic Toad: Spirituality & Psychedelics

The Bufo Alvarius toad, also known as the Colorado River toad or Sonoran Desert toad, is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, and secretes a substance from its paratoid glands containing 5-MeO-DMT, a potent psychedelic compound that has fascinated researchers, spiritual seekers, and the indigenous cultures of Sonora alike.

Audio, Psychedelics

Synthetic vs. Organic: 5-MeO-DMT

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.

Print, Psychedelics

Heads

A curious thing, this hostel full of “Heads”, to use the 60s vernacular. Drug-taking explorers of the innerspaces, well-versed psychonauts who have broken open their heads and had a good look around the infinite spaces found there.

Print, Psychedelics

Mind Games

Forget the war on terror: global military has been engaged in a decades-long campaign to find chemicals that can control the mind, and 50 years after their first experiments it seems the battlefield of the brain is once again front and centre.