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Sex + Setting: Friends Don’t Let Friends Sleep with Shamans

By Zoe Helene — 2016

As is the case with many spiritual or transformational experiences, it’s all too easy to confuse the profound healing la medicina delivers with the shaman who helped deliver it. As a result, people may open up and trust someone who might not have their best interests at heart, leading to devastating feelings of betrayal and confusion, and even post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Another Reckoning over Sexual Assault in US colleges Is Starting. Officials Must Listen

School administrations seem to endanger survivors’ access to education more often than they hold their abusers accountable

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Campus Survey: Sexual Assault, Harassment Remain Serious Problems

Harvard released the results of a survey intended to estimate the prevalence of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct among its undergraduate, graduate, and professional-school students.

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Thoughts about Sexual Assault on College Campuses

One recent survey by the Association of American Universities found that around 20 percent of female undergraduates are victims of sexual assault or sexual misconduct at some point during their college life.

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Ketamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready?

The mind-altering drug has been shown to help people suffering from anxiety and depression. But how it helps, who it will serve, and who will profit are open questions.

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The Ultimate Guide to Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive tea derived from plants containing MAOIs and DMT. Learn more about the experience, benefits, and side effects.

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Selfless Caregiving May Heighten Vicarious Trauma

Cultivating insight can help caregivers build resilience to loss.

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I Took Ketamine for My Depression. Things Got Pretty Weird.

My first encounter with ketamine did not go well.

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After He and His Wife Are Diagnosed with Cancer, a Playwright Reckons with the Gift of Creativity that Trauma Can Bring

In the midst of trauma, everything means something. Signs and symbols appear. You’ve noticed them before, you’re a writer, but now you see them everywhere.

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Françoise Bourzat: Consciousness Guide, Author, and Entheogenic Explorer

For those psychedelic users who experience post-use “spiritual comedowns”, psychedelic withdrawals, or a general sense of dopamine depletion, what can be done to alleviate these symptoms?

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Therapists Are Unprepared to Talk to People About Taking Psychedelics

The psychedelic revolution has arrived—yet psychologists still have major gaps in knowledge about going on a shrooms trip in the name of mental health.

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