From DMT: The Spirit Molecule
09:03 min
CLEAR ALL
Natalie Ginsberg, MAPS Policy and Advocacy Manager will interview Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
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Psychedelic drugs: a dangerous and illegal scourge; a harmless way to “turn on, tune in, drop out” – or a valuable treatment for mental illness? Research is showing that substances like MDMA and magic mushrooms, long banished to society’s fringes, are proving effective in treating...
Drugs like LSD and MDMA are generating new interest among doctors for use in psychotherapy.
This is a recording of Aldous Huxley on 100 ug of LSD, made on December 23 1962. The trip sitter is his wife, Laura Archera Huxley. He discusses the secret of life - to be oneself and at the same time 'identical with the divine'.
The UK is experiencing a psychedelic renaissance.
Ralph Metzner, circa 1966, discussing the use of yoga to integrate the LSD experience into normal life.
A small community of experimental psychotherapists—along with self-medicating users—have been using acid and mushrooms to treat mental health conditions for years, with promising results.
By the mid-1950s, LSD research was being published in medical and academic journals all over the world. It showed potential benefits in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other mental illnesses. This film explores those potential benefits, and the researchers who explored them.
Mark Haden will explore the history and current research and possible future regulation of psychedelics. He will begin with an overview of indigenous history then explore the history in Canada and why psychedelics were criminalized.