Anthropology

Mushroom enthusiasts discover two new psilocybe species

Van der Merwe and colleagues’ paper documents the two discoveries, while also featuring insights on the medicinal use of P. maluti by Basotho traditional healers. Van der Merwe and colleagues’ paper documents the two discoveries, while also featuring insights on the medicinal use of P. maluti by Basotho traditional healers… this study is the only recorded firsthand report of…

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Spirituality

[Psilocybe mushroom church… 106,000 members]

In five years… Church of Ambrosia has amassed 106,000 members across its two locations in Oakland and San Francisco. Ambrosia members pay $10 to join and $5 to enter the church… granting them access to church sacraments… magic mushrooms… It is thought there are now anywhere between 200 and 2,000 psychedelic churches in the US…

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Spirituality

Psilocybin… saved my marriage…

…if you’re a middle-aged-ish parent who finds themselves, consciously or subconsciously, deconstructing all the things society has taught us to value, while at the same time grappling with growing children who no longer look to us for all the answers and whom we can no longer protect from the social toxins that are seeping into…

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Spirituality

Psilocybin induces hyperconnectivity in the brain, which produces feelings of “oceanic boundlessness”

A new study shows that the use of psilocybin, a compound found in the widely known “magic mushrooms,” initiates a pattern of hyperconnectivity in the brain linked to the ego-modifying effects and feelings of oceanic boundlessness. The findings, appearing in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging… In one of the first brain imaging studies in…

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Spirituality

…‘psychedelic church’ to provide support services for… 4/20 event

The Church of Ambrosia, a self-described “psychedelic church,” announced it will be providing support services on Hippie Hill Saturday, “cancellation or not.” …the church said it would be partnering with local Haight Ashbury merchants and nonprofit groups to provide a basic “safety net” of services like water, medical aid, portable toilets, and trash pickup. Original…

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Anthropology

Narco-deforestation and its climate impact in Central America

Recently the growing connection between deforestation and drug trafficking in Central America has led to what researchers from Oregon State University have called ‘narco-deforestation’. Increasingly, evidence suggests that increased drug trafficking networks are linked to forest losses in Central America: this is most likely accelerated by the fact that 86% of global cocaine transits through this region before reaching…

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