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.

Psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms are losing much of their former stigma and more people are becoming curious about these mind-altering drugs.Photograph: Marco Allegretti/Unsplash Six years ago, on ...

Artificial intelligence has opened new doors for psychedelics enthusiasts to show the world the beautiful realms they inhabit when tripping. As Vice reports, veteran psychedelics researcher David Jay ...

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 ...

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In early 2017 I was in a hard place: I was in a failing relationship. I wasn’t sure of where I wanted my career to go and I was at my wit’s end with life. I was 330 pounds and drinking like a viking.

Scientists have discovered that DMT, a natural compound found in plants and even the human brain, can dramatically reduce brain damage caused by stroke. The psychoactive molecule, long known for its ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers (CBP) in Baltimore seized nearly 104 pounds of the psychedelic drug DMT that was headed to Harford County. According to CBP agents, two shipments of 23 ...

Scientists have gleaned new insights into how psychedelics alter conscious experience via their action on brain activity. In a study at Imperial College London, detailed brain imaging data from 20 ...

In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander contracted a rare case of bacterial meningitis. As the pathogen wracked his brain, causing it to swell and suffuse with pus, Alexander entered a deep coma. He was not ...