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Trends in the Top-Cited Articles on Classic Psychedelics (Lawrence et al.)
By: Psychedelic Science Updates, Updatespsy
Tags: Psychedelics

Trends in the Top-Cited Articles on Classic Psychedelics (Lawrence et al.)

Published: Feb 3, 2021

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

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A case of sustained antidepressant effects and large changes in the brain with a single brief exposure to nitrous oxide (Desmidt et al.)

Published: Feb 4, 2021

The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

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Ayahuasca Use and Reported Effects on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: An International Cross-Sectional Study of 11,912 Consumers (Sarris et al.)

Published: Feb 3, 2021

Journal of Affective Disorders Reports

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Developing a new national MDMA policy: Results of a multi-decision multi-criterion decision analysis (Amsterdam et al.)

Published: Feb 2, 2021

Journal of Psychopharmacology

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Relational Processes in Ayahuasca Groups of Palestinians and Israelis (Roseman et al.)

Provisionally accepted: Feb 3, 2021

Frontiers in Pharmacology

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Low doses of psilocybin and ketamine enhance motivation and attention in poor performing rats: Evidence for an antidepressant property (Higgins et al.)

Provisionally accepted: Feb 3, 2021

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Drugs do works
Tags: Psychedelics, High, Cannabis

if onliiii stars could see us

Drugs Do Works

Drugs do works

In terms of myself, i’ve always had a very different view of drugs that my generation did. I did believed that drugs were for recreational use, but now i dont think so. I believed drugs were sacred. Yes, i do relate to the drug culture. I knew so many people that took them, and they looked like babbling idiots.

You may say drugs are evil, i’d say, take drugs responsibly. It should be you to take control, dont let drugs take control of yourself. You know, you look at somebody like Jim Morrison, he just drank thousand of bottles and it just totally messed up his body at 27. It’s not cool, it’s stupid. Jimmy Hendrix didnt want to die, he had millions of ideas, but he fucked up. He didnt commit suicide but he made a mistake.

To me you took a drug to expand your mind and learn something. Most people did so many drugs but weren’t learn anything. And a lot of people died for them, or they destroyed their brain, or their teeth. Me, i smoked pot, i hung around with pothead friends here and there time to time, but i took it seriously. Almost every pot i’ve taken, i’ve done something with it. I’d using it for something creative, or at least to stabilize my mood.

Mind the experienced, may the drugs be with you.
No, Psilocybin Mushrooms can’t fix you… They show you how to fix yourself.
By: Nadia Doe
Tags: Therapy, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Healing, Shamanism

I can’t tell you that people don’t come out of Ceremony feeling like a new person — that really does happen frequently enough. Sometimes they even have a death and rebirth, symbolically allowing them to move forward as this brand new person. However, that’s not always the case. Often people come to me thinking that this will be the thing that changes their life or fixes their “problem”.

Well, it sort of does. My question to you is — do you really want something to fix your problems? Or do you want to be shown how to fix them yourself?

It’s that whole “give a man a fish or show a man to fish” thing.

Let me get real with you. We are here in this lifetime to have experiences. We are here to feel our feelings, to grow and to learn about ourselves and this beautiful world we live in. We are here to experience trauma so we can overcome that trauma and become stronger as a result. Like it or not, we CHOSE to incarnate here.

So with all that in mind, if you have depression, that symptom is there for a reason, it’s there because it’s covering something else up that you are not willing to look at. If we magically take away that depression, or dull it even, you never see the thing that it’s covering up and therefore never have the opportunity to learn and grow from it. Thus we have the feelings of being “stuck” or “not moving forward in life” because we literally cannot move forward without experiences that show us how to through growth. These are common feelings/sensations that bring people to Psilocybin Therapy. They tell me they feel stuck in their life. They say they have been experiencing the same jobs, relationships and walls throughout their adulthood and can’t figure out how to move forward. This message is especially important to those of you who resonate with that message.

This Medicine is not about “fixing” you. In reality, no pill or treatment can do that — it can only support you in certain areas, such as to dull anxiety or stabilize emotions. The idea behind working with Plant Medicine is to connect with your inner Divine so you can see your own perfection as you are today, it is to help you figure out who you really are underneath your symptoms and shines the light on what holds you back from living your life fully. It is up to you to take those insights and lessons you receive in the Ceremony and apply them to your life. The Medicine will give you the tools, perhaps even the instructions, as well as a new perspective on yourself and on your life — but it is your choice and your power to use them moving forward. This work is about putting that power back into your own hands, where it belongs. Power does not belong in the hands of medications, doctors or even healers — it belongs in our hands as individual sovereign beings. This is what Mushroom Medicine is all about.

Interested in learning more about the work we are doing? Check it out here.
The Beautiful Madness
By: Creek Jackson
Tags: Philosophy, Prose Poem, Psychedelics, A Cornered Gurl, Nonfiction

A pity, really, that the world, since it’s very beginning, has raged a silent, consistent war against the grumblings of the individual.

The man, the woman that stares into the stars, and, distinct from her family, asks the questions that none should ask, that for the sake of getting through the day, have forbidden that they are asked in the first place.

But it’s incessant, a search for meaning that in turn criticizes every aspect of our waking existence.

Perhaps it begins as a hopeful and joyous dance in the spiritualities men have granted us. But as time progresses, and the failed attempts and years rummaging through philosophy grow tiresome, a depression emerges, and the tendrils of brilliance and sadness merge as a piece of art.

The life is a sacred one, but fragile, and tipped by the persecution of such a mind, that can see the world in ways others cannot or refuse to.

And as the age goes on and the world impresses its expectations on the soul, the absolute pain and beauty of it descends to a sort of madness of paradox within.

He is a god in the world, she is its master.

And many people such as this, treading the fine line between genius and insanity, succumb to the rope, to the pills, or to a delusion of greatness that cannot be fulfilled, myself included.

The madness of a person who believes in more, but understands its nonexistence, is the madness that produces kindness, and such will alter the course of all lives he or she will come into contact with.

They can allow others to choose more for themselves, the latter having the ability to do this painlessly, and perhaps, though we live in torment, it is the lives we touch, on this meaningless and ridiculously wonderful and terrible rock, that makes our mental suffering worth it. Through the blissful ignorance of those we pass, perhaps we can ease the raging complexity of too much truth.

Maybe I’m wrong about all of this, maybe I know nothing. Maybe I will spend the rest of my life in endless and cyclic dips from insight into awful darkness. Clarity is pain, reality is suffering and it has made me a kind man.

This, is what I offer to the world, let them live a life I never could. And so I say to those like me, those who see, that there may be nothing legitimate, nothing real, either in this life or one to come, but because we want with every fiber of our being to believe that there is, it is real in the minds of those we cross.

But then again, why do we grasp at concepts so much that have no substance?

None of it really makes much sense at all.

But as long as we keep talking about it and telling stories, I suppose it doesn’t have to.

I suppose it doesn’t have to.
Lake Shore Drive
By: Chetan Manda
Tags: Psychedelics, Perspective

IIT Bombay, 27 December 2019

On the eve of my 21st birthday, I went on a lakeshore drive with my friends in Mumbai. The following is a memoir of the vivid and exhilarating drive.

Each of our sunglasses looked at the same thing but showed our eyes different things.

There were about five of us in the car and all of us had sunglasses on. Each of us had a different pair. Some had transparent ones, some translucent and the others completely opaque.

The drive began and we popped our heads out of the window,

Initially, we all saw the same lake and the same shore but as the drive progressed, depending on the tint of the glass, each of us saw different views of the lake, some of us had everything in blue, some of us were seeing it in black and white while some of us saw it in shocking red.

As the drive progressed, the tint on our sunglasses did too, and, we realized that all of us were looking at different lakes altogether now.

The tint, however, did not stop increasing, until everything became opaque and then as if by magic turned reflective.

Although. we were still physically together in the car, we could now see only our reflections.

Each of our reflections had its own personality.

Some of our reflections shared the same tastes as us, while some of us had reflections that had very contrasting takes from us.

Most of us got into a debate with our reflections, arguing over our difference in views.

However, the catch to the debate was, you had to build a friendship with your reflection or the tint will not go away and you’ll never get to see the lake or yourself again.

Each of us went on a long journey henceforth to understand what our reflections really wanted from us.

Some of us had it easy while some of us got into arguments with our reflections and went into an intense struggle.

At the end of the drive, some of our reflections won over us while some of us killed our reflections while some of us made friends with them.

Each of us stepped out of the car completely liberated, reborn.
From having control to fully letting go
By: Nichapa Choengsamor
Tags: Psychedelics, Letting Go, Self-awareness, Self Improvement

The one thing I did know about my research on psychedelics was that setting was very important to the experience so I decided I wanted to have this experience in the comfort of my hotel so I quickly drank my “happy drink” as instructed by the bartender and started to walk back to my hotel. As I was walking back to the hotel for about half an hour, I started to giggle uncontrollably. I was laughing at the movements of my own arms as if I was a child experiencing this motion for the first time and being amazed by the fact that the arms could make such movements. I continued to giggle at my surrounding throughout the whole journey back to the hotel. Once I got back, I sat down at the balcony of my hotel room overlooking the lush green rice field and beautiful mountain range in the background. While I was soaking in all the stunning scenery around me, I started to experience some visual enhancements. The lush green rice field glowed in a bright yellow color. The entire mountain range started to move before my eyes. The banana trees behind the rice field were also moving in unison with the mountain as if they were dancing. The whole leafless trees in front me turned from brown to glowing yellow and their branches extended into the sky, making them look like lightning. As I looked up at the sky, the clouds turned into different faces. As I was staring at those faces attempting to figure out whose faces they were, the faces moved closer and closer toward me. Then right in front of me, the faces revealed themselves; they appeared to be my own face all along. I also noticed that the atmosphere around me was not an empty space. Rather, I was surrounded by a force field which extended from the ground beneath my feet to the air around me. With these visual enhancements, it felt as if I was in another dimension.
Becoming A Sacred Medicine Facilitator? Choosing A Facilitator? Read this.
By: Caiyuda Kiora
Tags: Ayahuasca, Psilocybin, Facilitation, Psychedelics, Shamanism

Every man and his dog is pouring Ayahuasca these days.

(That’s how the saying goes, right?)

You can substitute the words “pouring Ayahuasca” with the facilitation of any ceremonial rituals involving substances that are considered “sacred”.

Mushrooms. Tobacco. Kambo. Bufo. San Pedro. DMT.

The numbers are growing with more and more people stepping into the world of sacred medicine facilitation. We know this. It’s no surprise. We have experiences that transform our lives; we want to share those experiences with community. Whether we do it through the creation of media, art, becoming the change, or wanting to offer others the opportunity to experience something similar, sharing and preaching is pretty ordinary human behaviour, especially when it comes to inner-transformation, the path of healing, and novel-experiences.

I don’t think any one person has the authority to proclaim who should, and who should not, be serving these sacred medicines to others. Sure, the majority of online communities seem to be in agreement that there are some necessary prerequisites, including years of training, and a depth of experiential understanding to embody before facilitating medicine circles, yet in the same breath, we have out-of-the-box-thinkers that suggest that years of traditional training with a human teacher may not be entirely necessary, medicine practitioners are essentially “glorified trip sitters”, and one of the best ways for people to learn is to just get started and pick up the pieces along the way.

To refrain from too much individual judgment, I try to keep a pretty neutral perspective on the vast assortment of multi-flavoured practitioners out there, with the unreactive position of “there’s someone for everyone.”

Messages have been coming in hot lately; my inbox filling up with questions regarding how to become a facilitator, how to pick a good facilitator, valuable traits and skill sets, and important considerations to make when wanting to find someone to serve you medicine, or serving medicine yourself.

(Hence, this post.)

The following list is by no means exhaustive, and not necessarily in order of importance.

May it serve you on the path.
Why I’m Unlikely To Ever Call Myself A Shaman
By: Lian Brook-Tyler
Tags: Psychology, Philosophy, Spirituality, Psychedelics

Despite my many years of experience of nature-based soul and spirit work, my current devotion to shamanic work, and clients calling me a shamaness for years before it was even something in my own awareness, I don’t call myself a shaman and I don’t know if I ever will.

This isn’t a reaction to cultural appropriation or the degradation of the word “It’s even fashionable nowadays for First World ecotourists to visit remote parts of the world, spend a week or two with an indigenous shaman, smoke a few plants, see a few hallucinations, then come back and declare themselves shamans.” Thom Hartmann, foreword to Robert Wolff’s Original Wisdom (one of my favourite books).

It’s because for me, context is crucial.

I live in a world of patterns. And patterns within patterns (it’s one of the incredible gifts of being autistic).

And context is a vital part of a pattern.

Just like how a wolf needs its pack, a shaman needs to be part of a real community (meaning one of interdependence with humans who live in deep connection with their environment – but that’s a whole other post) to be a shaman because a shaman is a role within a community.

It’s a role which requires the shaman to stand with one foot in the human world, one foot in the spirit world and bring whatever’s needed to create balance on behalf of the spirits and on behalf of their community.

Without a real community, who is the shaman acting as an intermediary for in the human world?

And is what they’re doing creating balance between the worlds?

As one of my favourite passages by Rilke says “…be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

So these are two of the important questions that I’m living into.

And so for me, as I’m still living into them, calling myself a shaman without having that role within a real community doesn’t make sense.

If you feel otherwise about the word, that’s all good with me. These days not all shamans doing great work have a real community – they’ve redefined “shaman” to answer those questions in a way that works for them and I have no judgement about that.

The truth is, I have very little judgement about what people do. I’ve been told by my ancestors that one of my roles here is as a Taboo Breaker… not that I need to break #allthetaboos myself (thankfully! That would be messy and tiring 😅), it’s about bringing my unconditional love to those who do. So really, do what thou wilt.

And if you still feel that I am a shaman to you, feel free to call me that… Because if I’m ever a shaman, I suspect it will be other humans who let me know when I’ve lived some distant day into the answers.

👑✨♥️
Psychedelic Therapy is Coming More Into Light of it’s True Healing Capabilities.
By: The Unconfined Way
Tags: Psychology, Mental Health, Psychedelics, Depression, Depression Treatment

The research team from Imperial College of London conducted a study with 20 participants who suffered from treatment resistant depression, & 11 volunteers reported significant improvements in their symptoms after only two psilocybin sessions.

The participants who experienced great diminishment in their symptoms continued to feel this way in the 6-month follow-up, which showed that the psilocybin treatment caused a long-lasting effect in these individuals.

The reason why #PsilocybinTherapy had such a powerful impact is because it “attacks” the root causes of depression, & not just the symptoms that are associated with it.

Unlike the pharmaceutical anti-depression drugs (SSRIs) which have to be consumed on a daily basis & often cause severe side effects, research shows that psilocybin causes immediate relief with very long-lasting effects,& it doesn’t create any side effects.

Participants who felt life-changing relief from psilocybin reported similar experiences that can be categorized into 3 groups:

The psychedelic experience allows the hidden unconscious to become accessible (by visiting traumas from the past), & provides new insights about the negative patterns in our lives

* Emotional liberation (from avoidance to acceptance)

* A process of reconnection with oneself & with everything around us, with powerful feelings of harmony & unity

The effects of psilocybin on depression can be considered extremely important in today’s society, because this debilitating disorder is one of the leading causes of suicide worldwide.

Fifty percent of all depression-sufferers don’t respond to antidepressants, and around 20% don’t respond to any conventional type of treatment.

The power of #PsychedelicTherapy is real. Decriminalizing of it is finally occurring in this country, making this therapy available to all in need very soon…🙏🏻
Trump is a Festering Fungus
Tags: Psychedelics, Brexit, Mushrooms, Trump, Humor

So what’s the solution, to rid ourselves of this mould? Because it’s hotting up in here, and I don’t think we can wait for the next frost to come around.

One could douse them in chemicals: a quick flash of sulfuric acid and bleach. Although it may be tempting to go for the easy option of instant eradication, this method destroys the surrounding environment and leaves a gaping hole in the ground, in which new mutated spores could settle.

No, instead we must tease out the tentacles, and go for a two pronged attack.

The first step is to identify the underlying causes of the fungal infestation, and change conditions in which it has flourished. Remove rotten roots and decaying structures upon which the fungus can feast, and perhaps, dare I say it … drain the swamp?!

Once you’ve adjusted the landscape, one must dig around the growth, before you disturb the blundering behemoth. A subtle manoeuvre, to take them by surprise, or else more of the blasted mushrooms will spring out of the ground! Then, soak them in soap and baking soda: a home remedy that avoids the use of hard poison — for we must be somewhat careful in order to avoid mutation. Perhaps it’s not the quick and easy method one might desire, but a sustainable one. For mushrooms may spring once a year, but mycelium is a much more resilient opponent.

And luckily, deep beneath the ground, there are other mushrooms growing that can also counter this threat. Ones that expand your mind, rather than contract. Ones that work in symbiosis with the environment, rather than make you march blindly into darkness. So while we wait, let’s encourage those that heal, rather than harm, to flourish, enriching the soil and filter the ground of all that festers. It may seem like a struggle, but it’s the best hope we’ve got
Is the Dealer Trustworthy? Or not? (#3)
By: Claudia Yin
Tags: Psychedelics

SUMMARY

In a blog post published on March 16, 2018, by Marlene Rupp called MDMA-assisted Therapy, she talks about the amount of Americans who suffer from PTSD and how the drug MDMA actually aided with curing their mental illnesses. Rupp starts off by explaining how PTSD can lead to other problems like substance abuse, or it could even lead to suicide. Then she goes on to the topic of a substance that is “currently deemed an illegal party drug” MDMA, and how there has been research showing the positive effect from using MDMA as a way to assist therapy for treating PTSD. Continuing on, she concludes with going into more depth about PTSD can cause more mental illnesses and how that may negatively affect the brain.

AUTHOR CREDIBILITY

Based off of my credibility evaluation of the article MDMA-assisted Therapy, I believe that Rupp’s article is credible because cites real sources, has references at the end of the blog, and includes links to contact her if necessary.

To start off, Rupp posts on her own blog site called “Sapiensoup” where she has several articles relating to psychedelic drugs as well as other topics. This shows that she seems fairly knowledgeable about the topic of psychedelic drugs which supports why this article would be credible. Adding on, Rupp includes hyperlinks that lead to an infographic on study results done for PTSD. This means she uses facts that she found to support her claim and included hyperlinks which proved the credibility of the infographics.

To add on, Rupp also includes a few hyperlinks to a website called “MAPS” which is a page supporting the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat those who suffer from PTSD. Furthering my research into this website, I found that this program was founded in 1986 by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). It is a non-profit organization that’s dedicated to researching the positive uses of psychedelics and marijuana for several medical reasons. The website has links to donate money towards the organization, TED talks about psychedelics, and podcasts.

CONCLUSION

After the complete analysis of the article written by Marlene Rupp, I can say that all the information given is credible. She has several other blog posts that talk about different aspects of psychedelic drugs and includes research that is backed up with hyperlinks to her sources. Overall I would say her overall blog is a very credible source for information and it also seems like an open place to talk to other peers who are interested in the same topic.

WORK CITED

“Meet the Mithoefers — Dallas.” MAPS, store.maps.org/np/clients/maps/event.jsp?event=12&.

Rupp, Marlene, and Nadine Schürer. “Home.” Sapiensoup Blog, 26 Apr. 2018, sapiensoup.com/.

Rupp, Marlene. “MDMA-Assisted Therapy.” Sapiensoup Blog, 16 Mar. 2018, sapiensoup.com/mdma-assisted-therapy.
Your writing expresses something I’ve encountered with psychedelics.
Tags: Psychedelics, Lsd, Magic Mushrooms, Crime

Your writing expresses something I’ve encountered with psychedelics.

I truly believe that they have the *potential* to be absolutely lifechanging and spiritual and beautiful beyond belief. I have had those experiences, and I would never give them up, and I hope to have further experiences across my life.

However, the desire to regain “paradise lost” — to rediscover that feeling of “spiritual truth” (because so many of the revelations of psychedelics are forgotten once the high has subsided) is dangerous. Education rather than demonisation of the drug is important, I believe. Because for emotional, empathetic, spiritually searching people, psychedelics can be dangerous.

My fiance and I had some wonderful experiences on psychedelics. However after he went back to his home country, he continued to take magic mushrooms at a high dose every weekend. Because he was searching for that spiritual truth, and he believed that the feelings he was having on mushrooms were real. That he was exploring the astral plane.

And it finally culminated in the mother of all bad trips, where he completely lost touch with reality, trapped in a delusion that a loved one was an evil murderer. And thinking he was acting in self defence, he shot and killed this innocent person (who was also tripping with him). I witnessed his mental state leading up to the horrific crime, and I know it was not something he would EVER have done in his right mind.

Now a beautiful soul is dead, and my fiance, a loving, caring, sensitive man, is in prison for decades. Tormented by guilt and persistent hallucinations.

Psychedelics are the light and the shadow. Heaven and Hell. People must be VERY VERY careful with them.
Episode 8: The Failure of Scientific Materialism
By: Marc Weinstein
Tags: Psychology, Health, Science, Philosophy, Psychedelics

Episode 8: The Failure of Scientific Materialism

I was introduced to Jeff Bausemer by my first guest, Andrew Murray Dunn. One of the goals of this show is to highlight individuals that are tackling modern societal issues in a unique way.

One of Jeff’s current missions is to bring ancient eastern practices, such as herbal medicine, back into the main stream to help solve medical and mental health issues. He started East Meets West Festival, because for seven years, he was suffering from chronic illness that western medicine could not cure. This forced him to experiment with unconventional, but traditional eastern medicinal systems.

East Meets West gives modern people tools for personal, social and cultural revolution by catalyzing the conversation around human potential, well being, creative culture, global entrepreneurial leadership & policy, and social impact.

One hurdle I believe we need to move through culturally is the separation of the scientific from the effective. Jeff and I discuss the flaws of Scientific Materialism and our inability to prove cause and effect. We dive a bit into psychedelics which Jeff describes as the next wellness trend.

Important Links:

East Meets West Festival: http://eastmeetswestfest.com/

Digital Wellness Collective: https://digitalwellnesscollective.com/

Jeff’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffbausemer

For More Episodes and Other Info Please Visit: www.thelookuppodcast.com

The host of the Look Up! Podcast, Marc Weinstein, has been invited to speak at many corporations, colleges and conferences. Topics include

Happiness in the Age of Influencers Health, Wellness and the Modern American Dream The Future of the Internet The Attention Economy, FOMO, and Privacy Lessons from the Fyre Working Through Disaster

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Technology, Psychedelics , Bitcoin and Culture.
By: Nishad Kala
Tags: Technology, Bitcoin, Philosophy, Evolution, Psychedelics

Technology, Psychedelics , Bitcoin and Culture.

Meditation- taking a step back and observing your mind, without judgement.Becoming aware of your mind. Can bring up repressed trauma. Therapeutic rewiring

Psychedelics- effectively enhanced mental activity, breaking down the concepts and cognition we have evolved and with which we understand and navigate the world. Destroying the old so that the new can emerge. Trying to ‘see’ your mind with a cognition that has not quite yet reached the necessary stage of evolution to do that. Fast, intense rewiring. Profound learning

Steep learning curves- A viscerally felt rewiring , making new connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, new meaning, learning.

Technology- has profoundly impacted our psychological evolution since the first stone tools were used. Each instantiation of new tech has facilitated the ever increasing complexity of our psychology and thus how we organize our societies, communities, civilizations.

Bitcoin is the next iteration in the evolution of the technology of money. Money is a technology that facilitates cooperation between people. Understanding Bitcoin necessitates understanding money, thus facilitating awareness of behavior. Old concepts of money are deconstructed and re-assimilated, re-defining how value is denoted, even what value is (is value a specific kind of meaning?). Over time, the impact of technology on our behavior and thus culture can be compared to that of a psychedelic experience and steep learning curve, the destruction of old concepts for the emergence of new, and the connecting of seemingly unrelated domains and ideas, rewiring to incubate new meaning, inspire new behavior and insight.

This is a steep learning curve (The rabbit hole). Each major new technology has resulted in disruption then settlement and new culture formed. Technological evolution describes an exponential growth curve. The time between settlement and next new tech is shorter and shorter. Like a pulse of change on the timeline of human history. Each pulse is closer to the last and thus seems stronger. Much like a psychedelic trip. I guess you could call it the evolution of consciousness if we couch it in a global and (human) cultural context.

This post was prompted by a query to a reply I posted on twitter in response to a tweet from Tim Denning.
Gamma Goblin Shop New V3 Onion Address || GammaGoblin Pushing Taboo Since 2012!
Tags: Crypto, Drugs, Psychedelics, Lsd, Darknet Markets

Gamma Goblin Shop New V3 Onion Address || GammaGoblin Pushing Taboo Since 2012! GammaGoblin Apr 6·3 min read

Hello, dear traveller, and welcome to the GammaGoblin Multiverse 2.0

We’ve been pushing the taboo since January 2012.

We’ve been a part of Silk Road v1 and v2, Sheep Marketplace, Black Market Reloaded, Evolution, Middle Earth and Black Bank.

We are now launching our new V3 onion address!

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Our V2 onion address will keep working until Tor Team will disable all of V2 onion links in June 2021.

If you came here, you must know what these places have in common. Centralized markets sooner or later become seized or their admins perform exit scams. In both situations neither vendors nor users can get their funds back. This has changed slightly with the introduction of multi-sig transactions, but we’d rather not gamble with our security being in the hands of people we don’t know anything about.

It means that when you use a market, not only you have to put your trust in the vendor, but also in the market. We’ve decided to allow our dear customers to bypass one of these points of failure and let you to make purchases directly with us via our own hidden service. So if you trust us enough to buy from us on the markets, you no longer have to trust the 3rd parties with your funds or data.

This allows us to give you better prices and make sure that your funds are safe with us, as they are kept in our private, offline wallets (hackers and crackers — there’s nothing to steal here :) )

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A beginner’s guide to Psychedelics
By: Ganesh Shahane
Tags: Therapy, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Lsd, Dmt

Colours of a psychedelic experience

Preface: As an enthusiast in computational drug discovery research and an avid listener to Joe Rogan podcasts, I have always been interested in how the human body works, diseases are caused, how drugs could be designed to combat them and how they would behave inside the human body. Lately, due to a some personal issues, I became interested in the science of psychedelics and how they could used therapeutically to transform lives for the better.

On my recent trip to Israel in Jerusalem, I happened to meet a wonderful fellow human: Anna. Due to some shared interests in how Psychedelics work and their potential therapeutic use, I am dedicating this blog to her in the form of a letter in response to her recent query on it.

Dear Anna,

Thank you for your text and interest in Psychedelics. Though your query was specifically regarding LSD, I would like to respond to it in general about the 3 most popular psychedelics in use: LSD, DMT and Psilocybin, mostly because the effects they have on the human mind can be very similar.

In this blog, I will address the main things: the therapeutic effects, the dosage levels and safety concerns everyone needs to know about.

An introduction:

Psychedelics are simply a class of drugs that trigger hallucinogenic experiences. One can count many examples of them out there, but the most popular ones in popular culture would be: Psilocybin (in magic mushrooms), LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) and DMT (N,N- Dimethyltryptamine).

Though LSD is taken in its pure powdery form, people usually take DMT through a brew (called Ayahuasca) made up of a combination of 2 plants: Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis found in the jungles of Amazon.

Psilocybin on the other hand is an active ingredient of magic mushrooms/truffles and can simply be taken by chewing or swallowing it.

Therapeutics uses:

Right off the bat, a number of clinical trials & widespread anecdotal experiences have shown that psychedelics could be a potential cure for many mental health conditions such as severe depression, anxiety (in cancer patients), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), alcohol and smoking addiction, as well as eating disorders like anorexia (starving oneself) and bulimia (vomiting just eaten food).

Please note that the clinical trials have been conducted for psilocybin only, and that claims of LSD and DMT being equally effective are personal/anecdotal. This is mostly because there are a lot of regulatory hurdles in possessing these drugs for clinical trials, due to them being illegal in most countries.

Nonetheless, because of these Psilocybin trials, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated it as “breakthrough therapy”, and hence, I believe that we aren’t very far away from the time when magic mushrooms would be legalised and used for therapy.

Also, trials are still underway for treatment of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, but people have reported the benefits of LSD in getting rid of them.
Duality
By: Azalea Kemp
Tags: Universe, Reality, Psychedelics, Duality, Mindfulness

How do we stay connected to life’s energy that we all surrounded by while acknowledging the reality of our day to day? The fact that we are all made up of light through love yet have to experience darkness through pain our whole lives is the complicated duality of human nature itself!

“Reality is negotiable.”

Is it?

I think to an extent, it can be. You can choose to connect with the energy of universal love that we are all surrounded by or you can choose to ignore it. The option you choose, though, will definitely change your perception of reality.

Yet, there are some parts of reality we truly have no control over. For example, my younger sister was born with cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus, and epilepsy. Oh yeah, she’s also legally blind. While my sister is one of the most loving and extremely positive people I’ve ever met, I don’t think she can just “connect with earth’s energy” and all of a sudden be able to see clearly. These are the parts of reality that come with the human condition that we have to accept and navigate.

What we can control, though, is our reaction to these conditions and how they effect us. If I was blind and had 3 disabilities on top of that, I would be a miserable fuck. However, my sister has chosen to not let it restrict her happiness or her life. She’s in college now (which is INCREDIBLE by the way, considering she was told at a young age she would never be able to even write her own name), she’s got quite the social life, and she just fucking does shit that makes her happy!

Does this change the fact that she can’t see? Or that she shakes when dressing herself? Or her seizures? Absolutely not. And the day to day effects of those struggles will remain throughout her life. However, she chooses to find pockets of light & love throughout her life to balance this and keep herself happy. The most beautiful part? She doesn’t even realize she’s doing it.

It’s natural.
the Ayahuasca Experience
Tags: Ayahuasca, Ayahuasca Retreats, Ayahuasca Experience, Psychedelics, Psychepharma Com

the Ayahuasca Experience

As the film alludes, ayahuasca shamanism is a booming business, due in no small part to the rise of “ayahuasca tourism” and the evangelism of Silicon Valley’s psychedelic elite. It’s not at all clear whether Degan aims to denounce this trend or promote it. On a charitable reading, The Last Shaman explores the tension between ayahuasca’s enormous utility and the increasingly corrupted circumstances under which it is used. The film’s villains are a series of less than responsible and less than “authentic” shamans who, we’re meant to assume, have tainted the plant’s spiritual purity by succumbing to the profit motive. But it’s difficult not to view The Last Shaman as a symptom of the very illness it ostensibly condemns. psychepharma.com

What outcome are the filmmakers seeking? Do they really believe that the future of psychiatric treatment should involve haphazard trips to South America to partake of superstitious rituals and ingest powerful drugs under patently unsafe conditions? Perhaps they’re after a narrower aim: to tell one young man’s redemptive personal story. But then why the contrived subplot pitting good shaman against bad? Indeed, why make the trip to South America at all? Someone as resourceful and fortunate as Freeman could almost certainly have found a reputable shaman in, say, the Bay Area. Of course, this would have been illegal — and worse, in-cinematic.

All nonfiction filmmakers face a tension between preserving the “truthfulness” of their stories and shaping them into cohesive, engaging narratives. Because documentaries rarely feature disclaimers indicating which sequences are candid and which are staged, it falls to critics to gauge whether the balance has been struck responsibly. This challenge becomes compounded when, as is the case in The Last Shaman, the film involves a willing subject who consents to whatever representation or misrepresentation the filmmaker is trying to convey. To be clear, it seems all but certain that Freeman was in fact depressed and that his experiences with ayahuasca aided his recovery. It’s far less certain that what we see in the film represents the honest unfolding of this process. psychepharma.com
Entry: Psychedelics and Societal Collapse
By: Minty Horseradish
Tags: Counterculture, Liberation, Deep Adaptation, Psychedelics, Climate Change

Nothing is the same as it was before. And every day is a new adventure of possibilities and uncertainty. Every moment is divine, sacred, mysterious and both incredibly beautiful and incredibly painful. We no longer know how long we have, but we’ve never known. Everything is impermanent, and everything is immortal.

These are the thoughts that go through my head on a daily basis now.

As I reconnected to my childhood love for activism and the “environment” this past year I stumbled across Deep Adaptation and spent the winter leaning into the grief, despair and the pain of inquiring into what accepting societal collapse might feel like. I entered into a sombre dark night of the soul.

In a knee-jerk reaction to my existential crisis, I threw myself into the changes and actions I needed to make in my life to address the screaming dissonance that reverberated through my soul. And yet, it still didn’t feel enough… like a tidal wave about to crash I was watching the world in slow motion.

This summer I was inspired to go even deeper in my inquiries, beyond thought, beyond self, pushing my boundaries to the edge of how I could face my own mortality. My curiosity and play with psychedelics helped to guide me through these barriers, revealing to me the divinity and magic of the world we live in. It peeled away the veil between reality and the ineffable unknown: from the enormity of our universe and the breath of our galaxy to the microscopic scope of each living being, everything continuing and connected into this flow of life and consciousness whose sole purpose — so far appears to me — is to create, create and create.

My dark night was rudely awoken and shattered, here I was fighting to stay afloat in the lake of the apocalypse when really, what is there to fight for? We are all going to die one day so what are we holding onto?

So in the face of collapse, I find myself in a different kind of night… one where I am dissolved into an infinite amount of inquires. What do I do now knowing that none of this matters? Should I fight for a new world? Should I help others in a practical manner? Or should I just live in the embodiment of love, joy and creation to allow permission for others to do the same?

Tom Chi tells the story of cyanobacterium who lived on our planet approximately two and a half billion years ago and whose life span lasted only two weeks. Each organism’s sole purpose was to photosynthesis, create oxygen and die. These tiny beings would have never known that it's one small task was part of a great unimaginable whole on a timescale that was incomprehensible to it. But ultimately each tiny life contributed to the evolution of a million different beings on this planet and in doing so it made a mark on our collective canvas.
What are the Benefits of Microdosing?
Tags: Psychedelics, Microdosing, Mental Health, Psilocybin

Microdosing psychedelics is the practice of taking very small, sub-perceptual or sub-hallucinogenic doses of substances like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or psilocybin (magic mushrooms). A conclusion of a recent study suggests that

“Benefits associated with microdosing greatly outweigh the challenges. Microdosing may have utility for a variety of uses while having minimal side-effects.”

(Global Drug Survey, April 2020, Microdosing Psychedelics: Subjective Benefits and Challenges, Substance Testing Behavior, and the Relevance of Intention).

The most common benefit from microdosing LSD or psilocybin was enhanced mood, reduced depressive symptoms which was identified by over half of respondents in the Global Drug Survey conducted in 2019 (LSD: 51%, Mushrooms: 57%). Other top benefits were: Enhanced creativity and curiosity; Enhanced energy and alertness; Enhanced empathy, sociability, and communication.

The most common challenge to microdosing was quite simply “None, I experienced no side effect” (LSD: 30%, Mushrooms: 38%). The following challenges should be interpreted with caution as only a tenth of respondents identified any single response: Restlessness or fatigue; Mental confusion, memory problems, racing thoughts; Reduced focus. What is most interesting is that these findings were counter a previous microdosing study which had shown illegality and adverse physiological effects as top challenges.

With interest in microdosing increasing, not enough is known about it from a scientific perspective, more research is required in this nascent industry. Is it time we shift the microdosing debate towards therapeutic benefits and responsible use rather than debating erroneous risk assumptions of the past?
Design Under the Influence — April 16, 2019
By: Brian, Katie Flynn
Tags: Comics, Ipa, Psychedelics, Craft Beer, Surrealism

Part 1 — The Beer

Name: Eureka — Hop Adventure Series

Brewery: Carlow Brewing Company, Carlow, Ireland

Style: Single Hop India Pale Ale

ABV: 5%

The short of it: Strong bitter qualities combined with its complex and full-bodied flavour and aroma profile.

The long of it: Rich aromas of tropical fruit, citrus with a hint of marijuana influenced me to showcase this beer on the week of 4/20. This beer starts off with a citrus and pineapple flavour and finishes off with a bitter aftertaste of grapefruit to balance the sweetness.

Is it worth a try?: Yes!

Part 2 — The design

I picked up this beer because it was one I had never seen before on tap or in stores. Being familiar with the brewing company, I knew to expect a good beer. What I wasn’t expecting however, was the smell that hit me when I opened the bottle. I had recently learned that hops and cannabis come from the same family and Eureka is a strong demonstration of this. The single hop brewing process and the added dry hops really brought out the cannabis-like aroma of the hop without over powering the flavour. This smell was the jumping off point of my research.

What first came to mind was the surrealist movement of the 1920’s/30’s. Built off the Dada movement during WWI, surrealism depicted photo realistic rendering of everyday objects transformed into unnerving illogical scenes, to create dream-like subject matter. One of the most famous surreal artists is Salvador Dali, who’s The Persistence of Memory is a trippy commentary on the passing of time.