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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan—Review

By Oliver Burkeman — 2018

Pollan’s illuminating history of hallucinogenic drugs reveals that their mystical and medical benefits are indivisible.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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The Grandmother Plant—and What Turned on Consciousness

Here, we asked Graham Hancock about plant medicine, the purpose and meaning of hallucinogenic experiences, and what bigger opportunities he sees for humanity in all of this.

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Graham Hancock
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How Ecstasy and Psilocybin Are Shaking Up Psychiatry

Regulators will soon grapple with how to safely administer powerful psychedelics for treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Paul Tullis
2021
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The Return of Psychedelics to Counseling: Are We Ready?

Those of us who are professional counselors are perhaps most likely to recognize psychedelic drugs by their recreational or street names — acid, magic mushrooms, ecstasy — and to consider them to be drugs of abuse that may be dangerous to our clients.

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Benjamin Hearn
2020
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Are ESP and Psychokinesis Really Possible?

Ahead of a big science conference in Northern California, we speak with Dr. Dean Radin, who after years of study came to believe that there might be something to psi phenomena.

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S.C. Stuart
2018
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MDMA Lauded as ‘Breakthrough’ Therapy for PTSD Patients

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the design of two Phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA for treating PTSD, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which is funding and leading the clinical trials.

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Maureen Meehan
2017
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Is Hypnosis a Distinct Form of Consciousness?

Studies confirm that during hypnosis subjects are not in a sleeplike state but are awake.

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Scott O. Lilienfeld, Hal Arkowitz
2008
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Johns Hopkins Scientists Give Psychedelics the Serious Treatment

Psychedelic drugs—once promising research subjects that were decades ago relegated to illicit experimentation in dorm rooms—have been steadily making their way back into the lab for a revamped 21st-century-style look.

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Tanya Lewis
2020
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Can Psychedelic Experiences Cure Alcohol Addiction?

A new study hints at a novel and promising treatment for alcohol use disorder.

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Mark Travers
2019
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LSD May Help Treat Alcoholism

The psychedelic drug LSD can help people with alcoholism quit or cut back their drinking, according to a new analysis of data originally collected in the 1960s. The study adds to a renaissance of research interest in mind-expanding medications for psychiatric disorders.

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Maia Szalavitz
2012
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Crash Course in the Nature of Mind

Roland Griffiths' psilocybin experiments have produced striking evidence for therapeutic uses of hallucinogens.

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Julie Scharper
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