Sublime

What if taking psychotropic drugs is causing us to lose some essential aspect of our humanity?

There are many other modern examples of previously taboo drugs being transformed into socially acceptable commodities, often in the guise of medicines.

Se dice que un día vendrá un hombre que, con el don de la droga,

How psychedelics were the shortcut to enlightenment that founded Western civilization: first in the Eleusinian Mysteries, then in the Dionysian Mysteries.

By this accounting, one hit off a meth pipe is equal to ten orgasms.

conscious awareness, it had already completed its speedy media arc from psychiatric wonder drug to counterculture sacrament to destroyer of young minds.

A great many therapeutic and spiritual modalities were developed and taught here over the years, including the therapeutic and spiritual potential of psychedelics. Beginning in 1973, Stanislav Grof, the Czech émigré psychiatrist who is one of the pioneers of LSD-assisted psychotherapy, served as scholar in residence at Esalen,

Hofmann became convinced he was going to be rendered permanently insane or might actually be dying.

The (seemingly regular) deaths of unarmed