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What Remains After the Trip?

Two recent neuroimaging studies offer a more rigorous account of how psychedelics temporarily reorganize the brain and what may persist after the experience.

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What is IT?

Psychedelics allow us to move away from this three-dimensional world – a place where we usually only believe what our five senses can perceive, where time plays out in chronological order, where our logical minds usually lead us to answers, and where we…

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More Thyme part II

As I continued deeper into NIO-5, my direct experience became akin to watching the falling of leaves.

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More Thyme part I

As the ship approached NIO-5, the engine was turned off, allowing the ship’s inertia to carry it to the destination on the surface.

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Psychedelic Substances Are Forcing Scientists To Go Beyond Science

The West is currently in the middle of a “psychedelic renaissance,” a movement characterized by a reemerging academic, medical, and cultural interest in psychedelic substances, accompanied by efforts to decriminalize and legalize these substances.

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Explosion

by Adam Amrani , PALA Switzerland Noetic explosion, implosion, explosion, implosion, pulsing wildly in an arrhythmic dance.

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