Tagged with psilocybin

The story of Terence and Dennis McKenna in contemporary mass consciousness is inextricably associated with the so-called "Experiment at La Chorrera." We were children of the 60s lured by the passion to discover something truly astonishing. Terence told the tale in True Hallucinations. But until the publication of my recent book, few had heard the story from my perspective.  (more)

In 2008, I met a psilocybin and cancer therapist and my life changed. Now there is a documentary film called The Medicine: Science and Psychedelics. It depicts psilocybin as a form of palliative end-of-life care.  I sat down with producer and director Roslyn Dauber to discuss the film and to help promote these important psychedelic research projects. (more)

Practicing xenolinguist Diana Slattery writes about Simon Powell’s new book,"The Psilocybin Solution, The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Meaning," that concerns the ability of the psilocybin experience to deliver high-speed downloads; information transmission as communication with the Other; and especially, information delivered as a visual language of intense concentration. (more)

The notion that I entertain in this essay is that synchronicities are real and that they evince a hitherto unacknowledged instance of self-organization. (more)

At any one time we are all tuned in to certain channels of information -- a TV, radio, or internet channel, a book, a newspaper, a dialogue with another person. Psilocybin can tune us in to a hidden broadcast channel -- natural intelligence -- the only paradigm with a future. (more)