Spirit
David Yaden, whose new book continues the legacy of William James’s work on spiritual experiences, talks about James’s mystical encounter with nitrous oxide and what he would think of today’s psychedelic revival.
A robust conversation has begun about preparing trained chaplains to support people on their journeys.
Some religious leaders are finding psychedelics a valuable way to have mystical experiences within the traditions of their faiths.
A recent survey about life-changing psychedelic experiences put out by Johns Hopkins confirmed something that many psychonauts have come to believe – that plants and the rest of the natural word are trying to tell us something.
The “QAnon Shaman,” who offered to testify against Trump at this week’s impeachment hearings, fancies himself a shamanic trickster. But shamanic authorities and practitioners like Dennis McKenna see him as a huckster and a clown.
Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin hosts Colombian shaman Don Fernando for a discussion at UC Berkeley on the explosion of traditional plant medicines into Western society, and concerns around the inclusion of indigenous voices.
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads through the Amazon basin, indigenous communities are at risk of losing older generations who are the repositories of knowledge for traditional spiritual and medicinal practices.
The Native American Church and Decriminalize Nature issued opposing positions regarding the decriminalization of peyote. What is the path forward?
Scientists may be closer to understanding what happens in the brain when we experience ego loss.
The paper proposes a framework for classifying and analyzing strange sensory phenomena induced by psychedelics.
