Ketamine has a long history of use, and extensive long-term data supports its safety. It is considered an essential drug by the World Health Organization and is carried by military field personnel and by paramedics. Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 by Parke-Davis organic chemist Calvin Stevens through efforts to produce a compound that was a

In my culture there are prayers and offerings that are made when we take the life of a plant for healing. We explain to the plant why we are taking its life, and for whom the plant medicine will be used. We then offer a token of táádidíín or corn meal, a prayer, and gratitude. Through this sacred exchange we are considered equals in the cycles of C

Abundant evidence has shown that when used in optimal circumstances in the right hands with skill and appropriate intention, and when the openings and insights are brought back into the daily walk as components of ongoing spiritual work and com-passionate action, psychedelic medicines are the most potent tools at our disposal.

This session showed me that humanity’s transformation will come about through terrible suffering. This suffering will be driven by a global systems crisis triggered by a series of ecological crises. Our species will change when our collective pain simply becomes unbearable. In this, Session 55 echoes the conclusion reached by Duane Elgin in Awakeni

As a prime example and but one of numerous initiatives undertaken in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has been conducting carefully designed and administered studies showing remarkable benefits and/or great promise treating su

“Peyote” (from the Nahuatl peyōtl) is the Spanish name for this small, spineless cactus whose primary psychoactive alkaloid is mescaline. Its natural habitat ranges from the Chihuahuan desert and mountain scrublands of northern Mexico into southwestern Texas in the United States. Researchers have found specimens carbon dated to roughly 3700 BCE (ne

The key insight is that the suffering that is coming will be so severe that it will impact not only our personal psyches but the ground of the collective unconscious itself.

Our death right can become our (re)birthright. Once we step off the hamster wheel of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, and embrace the full catastrophe of the human condition, we unlock a powerful force. Gandhi called it “satyagraha.” Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King called it “soul force.” It’s the power that is unleashed when a human being

“The biggest battle we will face is with ourselves.”