9 Best Articles in 2021
The New Yorker
The Trip Treatment
The New Yorker
20+ min read · 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
10 min read · 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 · 2019-10-29 · How psilocybin, LSD, and other psychedelic drugs could increase wellness in people without mental illness
Psychology Today
How Is Consciousness Related to the Brain?
Psychology Today
6 min read · 2020-03-15 · 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 · 2020-01-29 · 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 safe trying them?
VICE
Study Reveals More People are Using Psychedelics to Self-Treat Mental Health
VICE
2 min read · Mar 5th · The numbers indicate a growing movement of people unwilling to wait for LSD and psilocybin to be legalised.
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins launches center for psychedelic research
Johns Hopkins University
5 min read · 2019-09-05 · The center, believed to be the first and largest of its kind, will use psychedelics to study the mind, identify therapies for diseases such as addiction, PTSD, Alzheimer's
Nature
How ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry
Nature
10 min read · Jan 27th · Regulators will soon grapple with how to safely administer powerful psychedelics for treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Aeon+Psyche
Model hallucinations
Aeon+Psyche
~12 min read · From 2017 · Psychedelics have a remarkable capacity to violate our ideas about ourselves. Is that why they make people better?
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VICE
Study Reveals More People are Using Psychedelics to Self-Treat Mental Health
VICE
2 min read · Mar 5th · The numbers indicate a growing movement of people unwilling to wait for LSD and psilocybin to be legalised.
VICE
Investors Are Debating Who Should Own the Future of Psychedelics
VICE
9 min read · Mar 10th · In a series of open letters and statements, investors have been debating how patents will shape the future—who will get to use psychedelics, and who will profit.
The Guardian
‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression?
The Guardian
~14 min read · Mar 13th · This week sees the opening of the first UK high-street clinic offering psychedelic-assisted therapy. Could popping psilocybin be the future of mental healthcare?
VICE
The Race to Patent Psychedelics Is Just Getting Started
VICE
~11 min read · Mar 5th · Psychedelics now appear in patent applications for Philip Morris e-cigarettes, periodontal disease, hair loss, weight loss, and food allergies.
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philosophyforlife.org
Can psychedelics make you a better person?
philosophyforlife.org
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
~15 min read · From 2018 · Do psychedelics give access to a universal, mystical experience of reality, or is that just a culture-bound illusion?
Tim Ferriss
Michael Pollan — Exploring The New Science of Psychedelics
Tim Ferriss
20+ min read · 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 astronomy.” – Stanislav Gr…
Ness Labs
Altered states of consciousness: the elusiveness of the mind
Ness Labs
4 min read · 2020-11-10 · Altered states of consciousness may immediately bring to mind psychedelics or hypnosis, but there are many ways to induce such non-ordinary states. But first, a conundrum. In order to define altered…
Psychology Today
Magic Mushrooms and the Future of Psychology
Psychology Today
~13 min read · 2020-07-23 · A conversation with Stephen Ross about the frontiers of psychological research.
CBS News
Psilocybin Sessions: Psychedelics could help people with addiction and anxiety
CBS News
8 min read · 2019-12-30 · 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 to do things like quit smoking…
NPR
How Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick The Habit
NPR
4 min read · 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 and addiction.
GQ Magazine
From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success
GQ Magazine
2 min read · 2020-07-22 · Tim Ferriss on his quarantine philosophy, funding psychedelic research, and why “not everything that is meaningful can be measured.”
PsyPost.org
Neuroscience study uncovers psilocybin-induced changes in brain connectivity
PsyPost.org
1 min read · 2020-01-21 · New research published in Biological Psychology sheds light on the neurophysiological underpinnings of the psychedelic experience. The study provides new ...
