Cryptocurrency and Psychedelics: Interview with Brian Normand of Psymposia
Last month, the worlds of cryptocurrency and psychedelics collided in a beautiful way when an anonymous Bitcoin multi-millionaire donated millions of dollars in Bitcoin to MAPS through the Pineapple Fund. This event was covered by major news outlets, and lead...
Transcendental Journeys and Psychedelic Spirituality: Interview with Torsten Klimmer
Artist, filmmaker and activist Torsten Klimmer (aka Omananda) has lead a fascinating life. From a harrowing escape from communist East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, to a barefoot sojourn across India interviewing sadhus, to living with the...
How to Use the Shulgin Rating Scale to Describe Your Psychedelic Experience
Experienced psychonauts are aware of the fact that the psychedelic space can sometimes be tricky to navigate, and know that it is helpful to have techniques available to assist with that effort. Accurately identifying the intensity of an experience can help...
The Joy of Psychedelic Healing: Interview with Julian Vayne
Many people in the psychedelic community will be quick to mention scientific research and peer-reviewed studies supporting the claims that psychedelics have immense healing power, but if you were to ask those people about their first psychedelic experience, it was...
Continuing Further Education with Psychedelics
Many psychonauts are interested in studying psychedelics in academia, but since there isn’t a well-defined path tread by multitudes of other students, deciding how to go about it can be quite a challenge. There are certainly success stories of people who have made a...
Cannabis Crunch Monthly — What’s In Store For Marijuana In 2018
Every month, Psychedelic Times will bring you a few of the most interesting, overlooked cannabis stories that we come across. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep in the loop on marijuana and psychedelic news. It may have been a landmark year for marijuana...
Iranian Religious Authority Considers Psychedelic Medicines Halāl
More than three years ago, Iran’s top religious leader issued a legal degree (known as a fatwā) OK’ing the use of psychedelic medicine under expert supervision, a decision that received little to no media coverage, but has big implications. In mid-March 2014, Sayyed...
An End to the Opioid Epidemic? New Study Suggests Ibogaine Treatment Could Be a Game Changer
Ibogaine is a naturally-occurring psychoactive compound frequently extracted from the root bark of Tabernanthe iboga, the plant source of ibogaine, which has its origins in the Bwiti cult of Gabon, a Central African religious group (1). In Gabon, the government has...
Pineapple Fund Donates 60 Bitcoin to MAPS in Delicate Time for Crypto and Psychedelics
Earlier this week, we witnessed something profound: a new paradigm technology empowering a new paradigm of psychedelic research and treatments. On January 13th, an anonymous Bitcoin multi-millionaire announced on Reddit that they were donating the majority of their...
Gordon Wasson’s Hidden Ties to the Vatican: Interview with Jerry Brown
Few individuals have had as profound an impact on the field of psychedelic studies as Robert Gordon Wasson, the banker-turned-ethnomycologist who brought “magic mushrooms” to the world through a landmark article in Life magazine that documented his time with curandera...
