Month: June 2024

The Psychedelic Wisdom of Alan Watts

“If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.”

Solving The Riddle of Happiness

Happiness. It’s a funny old thing. Everyone says they want it. Everyone thinks they know how to find it. And, yet somehow we remain always in the ‘searching’ phase. This is because many of us are actually laboring under false illusions of what actually will make us ‘happy’. 

Magic Mushrooms Apparently Cure Woman’s Long COVID

Could magic mushrooms be the much sought after treatment for long COVID? Researchers are revealing how a 41-year old woman drastically recovered after self-medicating with psychedelics. 

Psychedelics May Help People Who Stutter

A recently published study by New York University researchers found that people who suffer from a stutter may benefit from using classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD. 

Yale University to Study Psilocybin for PTSD

It looks like it will be a psychedelic summer at Yale University this year, as researchers are set to begin a pilot program investigating the benefit of synthetic psilocybin for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Finding Yourself With Psilocybin

We spend so much time rushing towards our ‘future selves’. Our eyes fixed so far ahead we forget to know, and live inside, our present selves. What would happen if we stopped for a second and sat with ourselves in the here and now? 

New Research Shows Psilocybin Enhances Psychological Flexibility

Rigid thought patterns are often one of the key factors that contribute towards mental health disorders. However, a new pilot study suggests that psilocybin could be just the thing to get these thought patterns a little more loosey-goosey by increasing our psychic flexibility. 

The Psychonaut’s Dating Manual

The dating game can be a difficult one to play. Although at first it seems we’ve all read the same rules, everyone plays slightly differently. Often, we want to make a good first impression while we get to know a potential partner. This means sharing our interests and finding the commonalities between us. For psychonauts, that, of course, means psychedelics.