By Mark Huslage It's been more than six years since I participated in the Johns Hopkins Spirituality study, but it continues as the most life-changing event of my life. For those not familiar, Hopkins has been researching the effects and...

If you have ever been on the Deep Web, you already know it's a crazy place. It's notorious for it's illegal activity, Black Hat Hacking Forums, Scams, Whistle blower blogs, and pretty much anything else you could imagine. The first...

Written By Alex Gearin (PhD, Anthropology). When a Cambridge University researcher took a famous ayahuasca shaman to his first cinema experience, the Yaminahua shaman José Choro concluded that the cinema “was not as good as strong shori (ayahuasca)”. For the shaman the psychedelic brew ayahuasca was somewhat...

"You don't hear about it anymore," John Lennon said in 1980, lamenting how psilocybin mushrooms went underground. "But people are still visiting the cosmos." Like its psychedelic companions, psilocybin earned its stigma in the Sixties, after which Nixon's Controlled...

Terrence Howard, Lindsay Lohan and Jim Carrey all have imbibed a tea from the Amazon (rain forest, not company) that also has made its way onscreen ('Wanderlust,' 'While We're Young'). Now, a critical mass of L.A.'s urban hippies are...