9 Best Articles in 2021
The New Yorker
The Trip Treatment
The New Yorker
170 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 · 336 saves · 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 · 119 saves · 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?
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 as addiction, PTSD, Alzheimer's
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?
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
Model hallucinations
Aeon+Psyche
~12 min read · 38 saves · From 2017 · Psychedelics have a remarkable capacity to violate our ideas about ourselves. Is that why they make people better?
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The Independent
Opinion: Policy makers must open their minds to the benefits of psychedelics
The Independent
2 min read · 2020-12-17 · The timing couldn’t be better for this renaissance of interest in psychedelics and it’s no coincidence that venture capital is pouring into schemes, which aim to research their role in treating mental…
VICE
This Is How Psychedelics Hack the Brain, According to Scientists
VICE
4 min read · 2020-12-11 · The “pivotal mental state” is described in a mind-blowing new scientific paper that looks at how drugs can reroute people out of psychological dead ends.
Futurism
UFC investigating whether psychedelics help fighters with traumatic brain injuries
Futurism
1 min read · Jan 14th
WIRED UK
Big pharma is about to tune in to the potential of psychedelics
WIRED UK
2 min read · Jan 1st · Mainstream mental-health care will embrace alternative active substances such as psilocybin
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Tim Ferriss
Michael Pollan — Exploring The New Science of Psychedelics
Tim Ferriss
25 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 astronomy.” – Stanislav Gr…
In Productivity
GQ Magazine
From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success
GQ Magazine
2 min read · 196 saves · 2020-07-22 · Clay Skipper · Tim Ferriss on his quarantine philosophy, funding psychedelic research, and why “not everything that is meaningful can be measured.”
In Brain
Ness Labs
Altered states of consciousness: the elusiveness of the mind
Ness Labs
4 min read · 202 saves · 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…
In Psychology
Psychology Today
Magic Mushrooms and the Future of Psychology
Psychology Today
~13 min read · 122 saves · 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
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 to do things like quit smoking…
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 and addiction.
In Psychology
PsyPost.org
Neuroscience study uncovers psilocybin-induced changes in brain connectivity
PsyPost.org
1 min read · 132 saves · 2020-01-20 · 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 · 39 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.
In Future
Ars Technica
Have a Good Trip is a gateway drug to de-stigmatizing psychedelics
Ars Technica
7 min read · 90 saves · 2020-05-16 · Jennifer Ouellette · Director Donick Cary on how he brought internal psychedelic experiences to vivid life
