One of life’s greatest challenges is learning how to confront death, the unknown, the state of un-being. Psychedelic substances offer one way to come to grips with the void, and this study published in the Journal of Cancer Research...

In the last decade, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere have launched new studies investigating whether psychedelic drugs, from shrooms to LSD to DMT, can treat mental disorders ranging from depression and PTSD to anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder....

Three years after Ian Roullier finally faced down the father who abused him and saw him sent to jail, he confronted him again, in the shape of a terrifying armoured horse. This wasn’t a nightmare. Roullier was not only awake,...

The first time I took psychedelic mushrooms it was an accident. I was in college, at a friend’s party. A European hippy buddy had brought a big bag and left them out. I ate a handful, thinking it was some...

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,...