By Tessa Eskin Ibogaine recently made headlines with the commencement of Phase I/IIa trial testing treatment for opioid addiction at MAC Clinical Research. Opioid use disorder is widespread and notoriously...
By Tessa Eskin It was the spring of 1943. Albert Hofmann was in his lab, revisiting a shelved research project on the ergot fungus. He was on the hunt for a compound to stimulate the respiratory and circulatory systems...
By Shira Jacobson That psychedelic drugs, including LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and DMT, may lead to an experience of “ego dissolution” and feelings of personal peace is well-documented. The phenomenon, termed “Drug-Induced...
Keren Tzarfaty, Ph.D., M.F.T., is the co-founder of the Hakomi Institute of Israel and a trainer for MAPS in Israel (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies). She is a clinical investigator in the MDMA...
By Tessa Eskin For over 6000 years, shamans, healers, and ‘roadmen’ have used Peyote as a conduit for communion with the spirit world. Lophophora williamsii is a cactus stemming from the Cactaceae family, native to the...
By Brian Lissak Out of the Ashes, a Dream Rick Doblin was born in 1953 to a Jewish family in suburban Chicago. Though his family emigrated to America before World War Two, there were many Holocaust survivors in his...
