What happens when you die? As she lay blindfolded in a seat in a dimly lit room, Anna* came close to finding out. But Anna wasn't dying, or even close to death, when she entered what she described as ...

Have you ever wondered why people who nearly die often describe speeding toward supernatural light, or seeing their life flash before their eyes? You may have also heard about the powerful psychedelic ...

DMT, short for N,N-dimethyltryptamine, has such a powerful effect on the human brain that it’s called the “God molecule”. It’s famous for inducing a transcendent psychological experience and some ...

With the revival of psychedelic medicine well underway, different academic groups and clinical research companies are investigating the features and effects of psychedelic experiences on mental health ...

There’s often a threshold for how weird something can sound beyond which most people stop taking it seriously. One of the quickest ways to kill a conversation, for example, is to start telling someone ...

In 2019, I was going through a particularly rough time and searching for something to help me cope. I reached out to a friend who had experience with psychedelics. He suggested I do some research.

The chill of the fluid flows through Iona's arm as the DMT - N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, external - is pumped into her bloodstream. She is in a treatment room at the Imperial College Clinical Research ...