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The Worldview-Changing Drugs Poised to Go Mainstream

By Ed Prideaux — 2021

The growing legitimacy of psychedelics as therapies promises to transform how we view the extraordinary, writes Ed Prideaux.

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Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics

Nearly every culture throughout history has used chemicals that alter consciousness for spiritual exploration. In the 20th century these drugs caught the attention of scientists. Psychedelics, as they were named, proved effective at treating intractable illnesses like depression and addiction.

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Michael Pollan
2019
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Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth

A comprehensive guide to the safe and ethical application of expanded states of consciousness for therapists, healing practitioners, and sincere explorers. Psychedelic medicines also known as entheogens are entering the mainstream.

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Françoise Bourzat, Kristina Hunter, Ralph Metzner (foreword)
2019
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Paul Stamets at the Psilocybin Summit 2020 - Psilocybin Mushrooms & Their Emergent Medicines

Paul Stamets has been studying psilocybin mushrooms since the mid 1970's. Having written 6 books, including two field guides to psilocybin mushrooms, Paul has named four new psilocybin-active mushroom species.

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Paul Stamets
2020
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This Is Your Mind on Plants

Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience.

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Michael Pollan
2021
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Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West.

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Rachel Harris
2017
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The Ayahuasca Experience: A Sourcebook on the Sacred Vine of Spirits

An exploration of the chemical, biological, psychological, and experiential dimensions of ayahuasca • Details the scientific discovery of ayahuasca’s sophisticated psychoactive delivery system in the brain and body and its potential applications in medicine and psychology • Includes...

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Ralph Metzner (editor)
2014
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Connecting Modern Medicine to Traditional Healing: Dr. Cheo Torres at TEDxABQ

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2013
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Angeles Arrien Ph.D. – Crazywise Expert Interview

Angeles Arrien Ph.D., world renowned Cultural Anthropologist, author and educator unexpectedly and quite suddenly passed away recently. Last summer, under a canopy of redwoods, she shared with us some of her insights gathered from her study of indigenous cultures.

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Angeles Arrien
2014
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The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine

Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr. Tafur helps us to understand why. Too often, the Western medical approach fails to address the emotional dimension of illness.

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Joseph Tafur, Gabor Maté (foreword)
2017
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Altered States of Consciousness