If you are familiar with the compound Dimethyltryptamine, or simply DMT, you know that it is a psychedelic molecule in the tryptamine family closely related to psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms. This chemical is widely speculated by...

At 25, a friend introduced me to “Surfing Finnegans Wake,” in which a nasally man lectures for three hours, ostensibly off-the-cuff, on the psychedelic, boundary-dissolving experience of reading James Joyce. I remember thinking his voice sounded extra-terrestrial. It was Terence...

For young people in the late ’90s, access to unbiased information on drugs was hard to find. Our teachers, whether they believed it or not, said all drugs were bad. D.A.R.E programs told us stories of falls from grace,...

This is how Jason Silva’s latest video begins. The beanie-and-sweatshirt-clad spoken word freestyler releases a video each week in which he chews over such topics as human consciousness, societal systems, existence itself, and the allure of scientific thought. In...

DMT is famous for providing insightful psychedelic experiences. Now, a group of researchers is investigating whether the chemical can hold death at bay. In a proposed experiment, researchers Ede Frecska and Attila Szabo are attempting to discover whether DMT can...