Paul Austin on Microdosing and the Future of Psychedelics

My own experience with psychedelics has spanned several years of relatively high psilocybin and DMT doses for self-discovery once a quarter, weekly LSD microdoses for creativity and productivity (I take larger doses if I am both sleep-deprived and in need of hefty creative output), weekly or monthly psilocybin microdoses during holotropic breathwor

As with macrodoses of psychedelics, your mindset going into a microdose could heavily determine the effects.

psychedelics have begun moving from recreational diversion to performance-enhancing supplement.

Specially trained psychiatrists and psychologists are now administering hallucinogens and other potent psychotropic agents (psilocybin, ketamine, ecstasy) as mental health remedies. Administering limited doses (one to three) of psychedelics interspersed with multiple sessions of talk therapy over many weeks has become the modern equivalent of shama

For more than 7,000 years, hallucinogens, also known as psychedelics (magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, peyote), have had sacramental uses across diverse cultures. When hallucinogens became popular and widely available as recreational drugs in the counterculture movement of the 1960s, however, harms multiplied, leading to LSD being made illegal in most p