The movement to normalize and destigmatize psychedelics is not one of blind commodification. The psychedelics “industry” is possible because of an underground network of courageous people who have literally been risking their lives, their homes, their freedoms in order to make the truth about their healing potential available. The capitalist commodification of psychedelics disregards that…
“This resolution is about restoring our connection to ourselves and restoring connection to nature,” she said. “What this resolution does is it directs our police department to deemphasize enforcement of these laws, much like we did in the ’70s with regard to marijuana,” said Council Member Jack Eaton, D-4th Ward. When a grassroots group of…
That’s the eighth-highest number of signatures an official government petition has received this Parliament. It states that the government should “immediately discontinue enforcement of statutes or regulations that prohibit or impose onerous restrictions on informed adult use, growing, or sharing of any plant or fungi, where an established record of traditional use exists.” Additionally, legislators…
Sometimes, when we’re upset, we get lost in the emotion, and mushrooms can help you take a step back and say, “Oh, this is the situation. This is how I’m feeling about it. What can I do about it right now? Am I looking at things in all different perspectives instead of just caught in…
Every human culture since prehistory has had experiences with mind-altering substances, which could be one of the earliest indicators of religious formation. The Tassili n’Ajjer National Park in south-east Algeria is home to ancient rock art carvings (7,000 – 9,000 years old) that point to a lengthy, deep relationship between humans and psychedelic mushrooms. These…
To this day, many individuals who use psychedelic [entheogens/ethnobotanicals] feel they grant a certain kind of perspicacity, and the number of people who are using psychedelics appears to be growing. While under the influence… users typically experience changes in mood and perception, a sense of oceanic boundlessness, radically altered reasoning and thinking, and auditory and…
Currently, Earth is activating her defense mechanisms and — like a stern mother — putting [us] in time out, so we may come face to face with the very thing we have been avoiding for so long: Our mortality. This is also known as “being grounded.” I see trauma as a zip file of information,…
Nature has often provided us with the means to cure disease and improve our lives; it seems absolutely insane to block our own progress… even in a psychedelic community that thinks it is more steeped in love and compassion than ever before… Although we’d like to think of this new renaissance as being led by…
Cannabis is just the tip of the drug war iceberg… One of the more exciting aspects of future U.S. drug policy revolves around … psilocybin (magic mushrooms). Last year, Oakland became the second U.S. city (after Denver) to decriminalise magic mushrooms [in addition to other plants and fungi such as [iboga, ayahuasca, psilocybe mushrooms, etc]. There’s a…
“So this is how the healers who are attempting to be born are treated in this culture. What a loss! What a loss that a person who is finally being aligned with a power from the other world is just being wasted.” Dr. Somé proposes that what we call depression, bi-polar, psychosis and schizophrenia may perhaps…
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