New research has shown that using “magic mushrooms” might rewire the brain, leading people to have entirely new experiences. The brain builds pathways over the course of a lifetime, and strengthens those pathways every time it uses one. That...

Psychedelic mushrooms containing psilocybin are one of the oldest and safest traditional medicines and have been used for centuries in many countries around the world. The therapeutic and spiritual uses of mushrooms are what make it such an important...

Over the past few years, there have been many studies devised for the purpose of assessing the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, a serotonin receptor agonist that is naturally found in various species of mushrooms. Researchers have investigated the efficacy...

If there’s any truth to Terence McKenna’s Stoned Ape theory, then human evolution may owe a great debt to psychedelic microdosing — the practice of taking a sub-perceptual dose (an amount too small to produce traditional psychedelic effects) of...

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,...