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Introducing Bia Labate, PhD - Soltara Science & Culture Coordinator

By Bia Labate — 2018

We are pleased and honored to introduce Bia Labate, PhD, to the Soltara advisory team as Science and Culture Coordinator.

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The World's First-Ever Acid Trip Actually Kinda Sucked

Acid was at the start of its own long strange trip: from research chemical to psychiatric wonder drug, brainwashing tool to agent of ego-dissolution, cosmic insight and cultural revolution.

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Mike Jay
2018
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What a Trip

Ken Kesey’s visions of a different world set the Sixties in motion.

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Joshua Fried
2002
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The Life and High Times of Psychedelic Bard, Terence McKenna

Fueled by a diverse curiosity for the non-ordinary, Terence McKenna’s journey into the mystery was one of a kind. His books, lectures, and lifelong fascination with the “plants of the gods” made him an icon of psychedelic culture in the 1980s, 90s, and beyond.

Article
Xavier Francuski
2018
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My Adventures with the Trip Doctors

My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard.

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Michael Pollan
2018
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Maps Founder Rick Doblin: You’re Never Too Old for a Psychedelic Experience

Rick Doblin founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 1986, as a “non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana.”*.

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Abbie Rosner
2020
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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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Experiences of ‘Ultimate Reality’ or ‘God’ Confer Lasting Benefits to Mental Health

In a survey of thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with God, researchers report that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine
2019
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Interview with Albert Hofmann, the Man Who First Synthesized LSD

The late chemist Albert Hofmann discussed his psychedelic research on LSD in the July, 1976 issue of High Times.

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High Times
2020
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Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division.

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Daniel Pinchbeck
2003
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Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

In Tripping, Charles Hayes has gathered fifty narratives about unforgettable psychedelic experiences from an international array of subjects representing all walks of life–respectable Baby Boomers, aging hippies, young ravers, and accomplished writers such as John Perry Barlow, Anne Waldman,...

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Charles Hayes
2000
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