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Bad Trips and the Dark Night of the Soul
A bad trip can carry real darkness, and its shape is often inherited. A personal essay on difficult psychedelic experiences and the dark night of the soul.
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Psychedelics & Setting: An Ecological View of Mind
New research on psilocybin and the psychedelic brain reveals how set and setting shape experience, ecological cognition, nature connection, and integration.
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Mindfulness Meditation & Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: The Case for Structural Integration
Mindfulness and psychedelic-assisted therapy share neural mechanisms, which makes mindfulness structurally central to PAT rather than an optional add-on.
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Psychedelics and Well-Being: What the Evidence Shows
Research on healthy people shows consistent gains in meaning, connection, and openness. The gains cluster around reconnection from a baseline of disconnection.
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Psychedelic Healing Beyond the Brain
The clinical model treats the brain as the site of healing. A growing body of psychiatry disagrees. Here's what that means for psychedelics and integration.
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Why Psychedelics Work Better in Nature
Psychedelics used outdoors raise nature-connectedness more than indoors. The enactive account explains why: the setting co-authors the experience.
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Beyond Therapy: Psychedelics as Lifelong Relational Practice
The clinical frame treats psychedelics as a session you return from. Indigenous traditions treat them as a lifelong relationship held by community.
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Bicycle Day, Earth Day, & the Ecological Self
Bicycle Day and Earth Day fall three days apart. On psychedelics, nature connectedness, and why the ecological crisis is ultimately a crisis of perception.
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Ecological Cognition & Psychedelics as Interspecies Signals
Discover how psychedelics function as ecological signals, revealing an interconnected understanding of cognition beyond the brain and into the environment.
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Microdosing as Mindfulness Practice: What the Research Actually Says
Separating the evidence from the hype — and making the case for a mindfulness-centred approach to microdosing as an ongoing practice.
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How Psychedelics Change Perception: Beyond the Visuals
How psychedelics change perception goes beyond visuals. They alter how a person relates to their surroundings, which is why connection outlasts the imagery.
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Set and Setting: An Ecological Reframe
Everyone knows set and setting matter. Few people ask why — or what it means when we take the 'setting' part seriously as an ecological relationship.
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