Magic Truffles: The Philosopher’s Stone Has a Marketing Department
Here is the useful version, without the incense-cloud certainty: “Magic truffles” are not culinary truffles wearing festival pants. They are sclerotia: hardened fungal…
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A New Safety Study Cuts Through Psychedelic Hype — Without Proving What the Headlines Might Claim4 min readThe Handoff Myth — Field Note #04: The Switch, Not the Slope4 min readThe Handoff Myth — Field Note #03: The Messenger Always Changes3 min read
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Psilocybe cubensis “McKennaii”: Culture, Claims and the Myth-Making Around a Mushroom Strain
This topic attracts two kinds of writing: breathless evangelism and joyless debunking. Both are lazy. “McKennaii” is a cultivated Psilocybe cubensis label wrapped…
Psychedelics and Mystical Experiences: When the Ineffable Meets a Questionnaire
Here is the useful version, without the incense-cloud certainty: Mystical experiences are supposed to be beyond language, so naturally researchers built questionnaires. Psychedelic…
DMT Entities: Machine Elves, Jesters and the Strangest Repeating Cast in Psychedelia
Psychedelic culture has a talent for turning an interesting observation into a religion by Tuesday. People describing DMT often reach for characters: elves,…
5-MeO-DMT and the “God Molecule”: What It Is and Why the Mythology Got So Big
Updated September 2026. This article is educational and is not medical or legal advice.Here is the useful version, without the incense-cloud certainty: 5-MeO-DMT…
What Does LSD Feel Like? A Description Without Pretending Every Brain Is the Same
Updated September 2026. This article is educational and is not medical or legal advice.Psychedelic culture has a talent for turning an interesting observation…
Altered States of Consciousness: The Brain Has More Than One Operating System
The subject is stranger than the headline and usually less magical than the marketing. Dreaming, meditation, flow, hypnosis, sensory deprivation and psychedelics all…
Psychedelics Explained: A Sober Guide to a Very Unsober Subject
Here is the useful version, without the incense-cloud certainty: Psychedelics are a loose family of substances and experiences that alter perception, cognition, mood…
How Psilocybin Works: From Serotonin Receptors to Strange Meaning
Updated September 2026. This article is educational and is not medical or legal advice.This topic attracts two kinds of writing: breathless evangelism and…
Why Magic Mushrooms Turn Blue: Bruising, Chemistry and Persistent Myths
Psychedelic culture has a talent for turning an interesting observation into a religion by Tuesday. Blue bruising in some psilocybin-containing mushrooms is real…
When Were Psychedelics First Used? Ancient Evidence, Modern Claims and a Lot of Bad Certainty
The subject is stranger than the headline and usually less magical than the marketing. Humans have used psychoactive plants and fungi for a…
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Understanding Consciousness
Begin with altered states, then examine selfhood, neuroscience and mystical experience.
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The Science of Psilocybin
Mechanism, brain imaging, clinical evidence and the importance of replication.
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Psychedelic Art Through History
A tour from visual traditions and symbolism to modern curation and the museum.
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Exploring DMT
Chemistry, reports of entities and the boundaries between experience and interpretation.
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Psychedelics: Evidence and Hype
How to separate intriguing results, missing evidence and overstated headlines.
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The Handoff Myth
Four field notes in their original editorial order.
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