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...
By Tessa Eskin Ketamine is rapidly emerging as an incredibly effective and fast-acting mental health medicine. The drug first emerged after the synthesis of phencyclidine in 1956, an anesthetic for monkeys. Testing on...
By Tessa Eskin Across the world, there exist over 180 species of mushrooms that naturally produce psilocybin – the ingredient that makes some mushrooms ‘magic’. Scientists believe this to be a defense strategy...
Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, is the Director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research. She is also Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount...
By Tessa Eskin MDMA, or 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, was first produced in 1912 and introduced to underground psychotherapists in the early 1970s. Over the next few decades, it would become a favorite party drug...
By Brian Lissak Early Life: The Rebellious, Unfulfilled Psychologist Few names are more infamous in psychedelic history than Timothy Leary. Born in 1920 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the only son to an Irish Catholic...
