Psychedelic Art Has Entered the Museum. What Happens When Counterculture Gets a Curator?
A museum can legitimize psychedelic art, preserve it and explain it. It can also freeze something unruly into a very polite rectangle. That…
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Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Psychedelics: Borrow Less, Learn More
The subject is stranger than the headline and usually less magical than the marketing. Modern psychedelic culture loves saying it is “rediscovering ancient…
Psychedelic-Assisted Couples Therapy: Interesting Idea, Thin Evidence
Updated September 2026. This article is educational and is not medical or legal advice.Psychedelic culture has a talent for turning an interesting observation…
Set and Setting: The Old Psychedelic Idea Science Keeps Rediscovering
“Set and setting” sounds like vintage counterculture jargon until you notice modern psychedelic trials spending extraordinary effort controlling expectations, rooms, music, support and…
The Psychedelic Research Revival: From Counterculture to Clinical Trials
This topic attracts two kinds of writing: breathless evangelism and joyless debunking. Both are lazy. Psychedelic research did not vanish because scientists collectively…
Ayahuasca Ceremonies: What to Expect, What to Question and What Not to Romanticize
Updated September 2026. This article is educational and is not medical or legal advice.Ayahuasca ceremonies range from Indigenous and religious traditions to expensive…
The Doors of Perception: Still Worth Reading After All These Years?
This topic attracts two kinds of writing: breathless evangelism and joyless debunking. Both are lazy. Aldous Huxley’s 1954 mescaline essay is short, influential…
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…
Hunter S. Thompson: The Psychedelic Chronicler of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson did not write “psychedelic journalism” so much as strap American politics, drugs, fear and absurdity to the hood of a…
Can Mushrooms Save the World? Fungi, Mycology and Our Need for a Messiah
Fungi are genuinely extraordinary: decomposers, symbionts, foods, medicines, materials and ecological infrastructure. “Mushrooms will save the world” is a better poster slogan than…
Was LSD Discovered or Invented? Albert Hofmann, Sandoz and the Accidental Bicycle
This topic attracts two kinds of writing: breathless evangelism and joyless debunking. Both are lazy. LSD was synthesized—so yes, invented—but its psychoactive effects…
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…
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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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