Peyote (Mescaline Cactus)

Psychonauts Guide to Foraging Mother Nature’s Psychedelics

There is an estimated total of 800,00 plants growing on this planet right now and of them 120 are classified as hallucinogenic. There are also at least 144 species of mushroom which contain the psychoactive ingredient psilocybin. You can additionally find land creatures, sea life,...

Spectrum of Psychedelics | Psychonauts Master List

Psychedelics come in many forms, doses and parts of the world. There are at least 144 types of psychedelic mushrooms alone, also roots, vines, leaves, flowers, seeds and amphibians that naturally contain psychedelic properties.  Psychedelic means "mind manifesting." It is used to describe an...

Psychonaut Parenting: 10 ways I became a better parent through the use of Psychedelics

This is not written for the average person but instead open-minded people that know what its like to be at rock bottom, the kind of people that actively work to get their shit together and sustain a healthy, happy mindset. The kind of people...

How Do Psychedelics Work? A Look Inside the Hallucinating Brain

Explaining what it’s like to trip on psychedelics is difficult to explain to someone who’s never tried them. And while LSD, mushrooms, DMT, ayahuasca, and MDMA elicit different effects, they’re all responsible for producing (often vivid) hallucinations in the people who take them. How do...

What is Peyote? (Mescaline)

Mescaline is a naturally occurring psychedelic found in several cactus species, most notably, Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) and San Pedro (Trichocereus pachanoi) native to northern Mexico and the southwest United States. Several other members of the trichocereus family also contain mescaline. Mescaline belongs to a family...

San Pedro Cactus: The Master Teacher and Spiritual Healer

What is San Pedro? San Pedro cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi), otherwise known as the Cactus of the Four Winds, Huachuma or Saint Peter’s Cactus, is a fast growing columnar cactus native to the Andes Mountains – which can grow up to 20 feet high. It is...

Psychedelics Can Treat Depression

Most anyone with a decent interest in psychedelics knows of the late Terence McKenna, the famous American philosopher and “mushroom guru.” Fewer people are aware that his brother Dennis McKenna is still alive and kicking. The other McKenna is an ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer, author, proponent of responsible...