Sublime

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

Rick Strassman had sought and received approval to study the physiological effects of DMT, a powerful psychedelic compound found in many plants.

Still more fortuitous, this psychologist, whose name was Bill Richards, probably has more experience guiding psychedelic journeys in the 1960s and 1970s than anyone alive, with the possible exception of Stan Grof (with whom he had once worked). In fact, Bill Richards administered the very last legal dose of psilocybin to an American, at the Marylan

Dr. Larry Dossey has shown.

Bill Richards, a preternaturally cheerful man in his seventies, is a bridge between the two eras of psychedelic therapy.