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Melbourne’s Forgotten Psychedelic Era: The Dawn of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Research and Hallucinogenic Experimentation

Jonathan CarmichaelJonathan Carmichael -
  Content warning: This article discusses the use of psychedelics for psychotherapy in Melbourne hospitals from 1955-1975 and contains adult themes. Introduction The Good, the Bad and the Forgotten The early history of Australian clinical research into psychedelic-assisted therapy using psilocybin and LSD has largely faded from memory. With the current resurgence of...

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INDIGENOUS VOICES

Being a Female Shaman in Peru – An Interview with Adela

Rak Razam -
With a smile so bright it could illuminate a continent, female shaman Adela Navas de Garcia is a vibrant healer from Iquitos, Peru. Mother...

Becoming a Master of Ayahuasca Takes Courage, Endurance, and Respect

Maestro Mateo Arévalo Maynas -
My name is Mateo Arévalo Maynas. I’m 64 years old, and my Shipibo name is Isayu. For decades I have been performing shamanic healing...

The Yarinacocha Declaration of Shipibo Healers, ASOMASHK

Shipibo Conibo Center of New York -
In the long shadow cast by the murder of Maestra Olivia Arévalo Lomas at the hands of a Canadian ayahuasca tourist, Coshikox (Consejo Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo), the representative body...
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Ayahuasca Courses

Watch lessons taught by the experts. Including leading ayahuasca medical researchers, psychologists, shamans, healers, anthropologists, and ethnobotanists.

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SCIENCE & RESEARCH

The DMT Family. Comparing The Psychedelic Properties Of The N,N-Dialkyl Or ‘base’ Tryptamines.

Des Tramacchi, PhD -
In recent years, a number of the more interesting and rewarding derivatives of DMT have become available on the research chemical market. Some, such...

Speaking Beyond Ayahuasca: Yagé Varieties and Their Names

Jonathon Weisberger -
In this article, I will share some key insights into the notable varieties of Amazonia’s enigmatic visionary vine, Banisteriopsis caapi, specifically related to the Indigenous...

The Philosophy of Psychedelics – An Interview with Chris Letheby

Jessica Lawson -
Philosophy and psychedelics might seem like obvious siblings, but they have been estranged in academic contexts. Thinker and author Chris Letheby has begun to...
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CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Melbourne’s Forgotten Psychedelic Era: The Dawn of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Research and Hallucinogenic Experimentation

Jonathan Carmichael -
  Content warning: This article discusses the use of psychedelics for psychotherapy in Melbourne hospitals from 1955-1975 and contains adult themes. Introduction The Good, the Bad and...

An interview with Ram Dass

James Bennett-Levy -
Introduction This interview with Ram Dass was first published in Nature & Health, Vol. 9 No. 4 (Summer 1988), under the name Miles Bennett, a...

Florentine Prince and Funny Bugger: Terence McKenna in Australia

Graham St. John, PhD -
In this essay, we squeeze into the back seat of McKenna’s “Archaic Revival” tour, his first and only visit to the country. Encouraged by a small community of plant medicine enthusiasts and facilitated by promoter Dillon Hicks, for a brief moment, McKenna served as alien frontman for the Australian experimental music underground. 
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SHAMANISM AND SPIRITUALITY

An interview with Ram Dass

James Bennett-Levy -
Introduction This interview with Ram Dass was first published in Nature & Health, Vol. 9 No. 4 (Summer 1988), under the name Miles Bennett, a...

Can Learning to Navigate Ayahuasca Hallucinations Help in Psychosis Treatment?

David Dupuis, PhD -
Hallucinations occur during what doctors call psychosis, but they can also manifest outside the corridors of what is considered sick and dysfuctional. They can...

Drinking Ayahuasca Without DMT is Powerful and Traditional

Matteo Politi, PhD -
When using the word ayahuasca, we generally mean the well-known decoction of the vine Banisteriopsis caapi and the shrub Psychotria viridis, but in the...
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Ayahuasca Timeline

Explore key moments in ayahuasca’s journey from its mythic and evolutionary origins to its global popularity.

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RESEARCH ANCESTORS

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PREPARATION AND INTEGRATION

How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Us Overcome Crisis

Xavier Francuski -
While many people decide to try psychedelic drugs in order to “get high” or for a cheap thrill, there are more than a few...

When the Ayahuasca Ceremony Goes Wrong

Kerry Moran, MA, LPC -
A few weeks ago I sat through perhaps the most outrageous ayahuasca ceremony I’ve ever attended... ... A chaotic display of anarchy that was a...

We Need to Talk About When People Feel Worse After Ayahuasca

Kerry Moran, MA, LPC -
Ryan was a meditator, experienced with ayahuasca, so it surprised him (not in a good way) when a disturbing ayahuasca ceremony revealed the world...
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ART AND CREATIVITY

Psychedelic Journeys and Auditory Perception

Des Tramacchi, PhD -
When we think of the effects of psychedelics, it is often in terms of the alterations they cause in cognitive processes and visual perception....

Watch Kaleidoscopic Songs of Ayahuasca Shamans Vibrate Water

Shelby Hartman -
Mestaoui uses cymatics, the science of how sound generates shapes in physical matter, as a way to make the shamanic songs of the Huni...

Eleven Otherworldly Visionary and Ayahuasca Artists You Probably Don’t Know

Sitaramaya Sita -
It seemed fitting to highlight artists who might not yet be in the spotlight of visionary art or global ayahuasca culture. I often hear...
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