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Pioneers in Psychedelic Research: Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1998)

By Zalman Schachter-Shalomi — 2020

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014) interviewed on his life and early psychedelic research, in his first home in Boulder, Colorado, 1998. Produced in conjunction with the Fetzer Institute and the Gathering of Elders Conference.

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Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness to Neurotransmitter Systems

In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...

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Neuroscience News
2022
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Scientists Show How LSD Blows Open the Doors of Perception

The drug lowers brain barriers, allowing distant regions to talk and thoughts to flow more freely.

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Ben Turner
2021
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Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication.

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Edward Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Bruce Greyson
2009
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Your Brain on Psilocybin

How magic mushrooms expand consciousness.

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Robin Carhart-Harris
2014
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most...

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Michael Pollan
2019
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Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. How does one do this? By becoming metahuman. To be metahuman, however, isn’t science fiction and is certainly not about being a superhero.

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Deepak Chopra
2019
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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (The MIT Press)

In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted—the feeling of being alive. Koch argues that programmable computers will not have consciousness.

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Christof Koch
2025
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Consciousness Explained

Consciousness Explained is a full-scale exploration of human consciousness.

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Daniel C. Dennett
1992
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What Happens if Your Mind Lives For Ever On the Internet?

It may be some way off, but mind uploading, the digital duplication of your mental essence, could expand human experience into a virtual afterlife.

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Michael Graziano
2019
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A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved

Theories of consciousness come from religion, from philosophy, from cognitive science, but not so much from evolutionary biology.

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Michael Graziano
2016
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