ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

The World's First-Ever Acid Trip Actually Kinda Sucked

By Mike Jay — 2018

Acid was at the start of its own long strange trip: from research chemical to psychiatric wonder drug, brainwashing tool to agent of ego-dissolution, cosmic insight and cultural revolution. As Hoffman wrote in 1979, "The last thing I could have anticipated was that this substance should ever come to be used as anything like a pleasure drug."

Read on www.vice.com

FindCenter Post-Image

My Ayahuasca Trip

I drank ayahuasca in 1999, in a ceremony led by two scholars with expertise in ayahuasca. What follows is an edited version of what I wrote about the experience in my 2003 book Rational Mysticism.

Article
John Horgan
2014
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.

Though researchers are still trying to understand the cognitive and therapeutic mechanics of psychedelics, they have concluded that psilocybin, DMT and other psychoactive chemicals can help people feel more tolerance, understanding and empathy.

Article
Andrew Jacobs
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Introducing Ayahuasca

Amazonian healing traditions collide with Western medical sensibilities.

Article
Zoe Jahn, Monnica T. Williams
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Near-Death Experiences and DMT

A neurological explanation of NDEs remains elusive.

Article
Steve Taylor
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Does DMT Model the Near-Death Experience?

Despite parallels, there are profound differences between DMT and NDEs.

Article
Scott A. McGreal
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

DMT, Aliens, and Reality—Part 1

Psychedelic drug phenomena do not justify radical new views of reality.

Article
Scott A. McGreal
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Scientists Want to Know More About DMT Entities People Encounter

Now, researchers are attempting to catalog these experiences to figure out just what, or who, those DMT entities are.

Article
Michael Chary
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Potent Psychedelic Drug DMT Makes the Brain Think It Is Dying, Study Finds

Research shows hallucinogen found in traditional medicine ayahuasca produces similar feelings to those felt by people during near-death experiences.

Article
Josh Gabbatiss
2018
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

LSD