9 Best Articles in 2020
The New Yorker
The Trip Treatment
The New Yorker
172 saves · From 2017 · Research into psychedelics may hold a key to coping with anxiety, addiction, and existential dread. Michael Pollan on psilocybin.
Aeon+Psyche
Psychedelics can have the same overview effect as a space journey
Aeon+Psyche
9 min read · 52 saves · 2019-09-17 · Psychedelics offer a sense of expansive connectedness, just like astronauts have felt looking back to Earth from space
Elemental
Psychedelics for Healthy People
Elemental
7 min read · 50 saves · 2019-10-29 · Tessa Love · How psilocybin, LSD, and other psychedelic drugs could increase wellness in people without mental illness
In Mindfulness
Psychology Today
How Is Consciousness Related to the Brain?
Psychology Today
6 min read · 335 saves · Mar 15th · Near-death experiences, psychedelics, and meditation provide intriguing clues.
VICE
I Went to a High-End Psychedelic Retreat to Address My Anxiety
VICE
20+ min read · 119 saves · Jan 29th · As more people become interested in trying psychedelics, spa-like retreats are popping up all over the world. Should people with mental health issues feel…
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins launches center for psychedelic research
Johns Hopkins University
5 min read · 33 saves · 2019-09-04 · Helen Jones · The center, believed to be the first and largest of its kind, will use psychedelics to study the mind, identify therapies for diseases such…
Aeon+Psyche
Model hallucinations
Aeon+Psyche
~12 min read · 36 saves · From 2017 · Psychedelics have a remarkable capacity to violate our ideas about ourselves. Is that why they make people better?
philosophyforlife.org
Can psychedelics make you a better person?
philosophyforlife.org
11 saves · From 2017 · This article explores whether psychedelics improve character, looking at contemporary research and cultural history from ancient Greece and Amazon shamanism
Aeon+Psyche
Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science?
Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · 44 saves · From 2018 · Do psychedelics give access to a universal, mystical experience of reality, or is that just a culture-bound illusion?
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Neuroscience News
How Psychedelics Bind to Key Serotonin Receptor
Neuroscience News
3 min read · Sep 17th · Researchers have uncovered the structure of psychedelic compounds when they actively bind to the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor on the surface of brain cells. The…
Vox
You can help make psychedelic therapy for depression a reality
Vox
7 min read · 62 saves · Oct 9th · Sigal Samuel · Scientists are developing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, into a treatment for depression.
Big Think
8 must-read books on the psychedelic experience
Big Think
4 min read · Sep 15th · Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here's your reading list.
Big Think
Depression and suicidal ideation reduced after psychedelic usage
Big Think
5 min read · Sep 9th · Another study confirms the positive effects of psychedelics on mental health.
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Psychology Today
Magic Mushrooms and the Future of Psychology
Psychology Today
~13 min read · 122 saves · Jul 23rd · A conversation with Stephen Ross about the frontiers of psychological research.
Tim Ferriss
Michael Pollan — Exploring The New Science of Psychedelics
Tim Ferriss
24 saves · From 2018 · “Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for…
CBS News
Psilocybin Sessions: Psychedelics could help people with addiction and anxiety
CBS News
7 min read · 21 saves · 2019-12-29 · Anderson Cooper · Study participants at some of the country's leading medical research centers are going through intense therapy and six-hour psychedelic journeys deep into their minds…
In Productivity
GQ Magazine
From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success
GQ Magazine
2 min read · 192 saves · Jul 22nd · Clay Skipper · Tim Ferriss on his quarantine philosophy, funding psychedelic research, and why “not everything that is meaningful can be measured.”
NPR
How Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick The Habit
NPR
4 min read · 22 saves · 2019-10-15 · Magic mushrooms — they're not just for getting weird with your friends. Researchers are increasingly looking at psychedelics to treat conditions such as depression…
In Psychology
PsyPost.org
Neuroscience study uncovers psilocybin-induced changes in brain connectivity
PsyPost.org
1 min read · 132 saves · Jan 20th · Eric W. Dolan · New research published in Biological Psychology sheds light on the neurophysiological underpinnings of the psychedelic experience. The study provides new ...
The New York Times
Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research
The New York Times
5 min read · 40 saves · 2019-09-04 · Benedict Carey · The research center, with $17 million from donors, aims to give “psychedelic medicine” a long-sought foothold in the scientific establishment.
medicalxpress.com
Mindfulness meditation enhances positive effects of psilocybin: study
medicalxpress.com
2 min read · 17 saves · 2019-10-24 · Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the clinical application of classic psychedelics in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. Researchers of…
In Future
Ars Technica
Have a Good Trip is a gateway drug to de-stigmatizing psychedelics
Ars Technica
7 min read · 88 saves · May 16th · Jennifer Ouellette · Director Donick Cary on how he brought internal psychedelic experiences to vivid life
