Setting Up a Mindful Marijuana Meditation Practice at Home with Joe Mattia
Many spiritual traditions throughout history have used mind-altering substances as a central part of their spiritual practice. At the same time, other traditions strictly forbid consciousness-altering drugs or dismiss them as unhelpful. In India, for example, you have...
What’s an Ayahuasca Experience Like? 12 Days of Healing at the Temple of the Way of Light
My friend stepped out into the crowded city of Iquitos, Peru, after a grueling 20-hour plane flight. His destination almost reached, he boarded the boat that would take him down the river into the Amazon rainforest, where he finally reached the bank on the edge of the...
What Is the Difference between 5-MeO DMT and DMT? Choosing a DMT Therapy
Imagine you have to choose between two experiences. In the first, your vision fills with brightly colored fractals. Your thoughts remain mostly coherent as you’re transported to an otherworldly plane where you meet—and perhaps learn from—entities beyond your...
What Is Plant Medicine Healing? Finding the Roots of Psychedelic Therapy
The natural world is full of beauty, sustenance, and healing if you only know where to look. For tens of thousands of years, human cultures around the globe had all of their needs met by plants, animals, and natural resources that surrounded them. For medicine, they...
Iboga Experiences and the Global Ibogaine Conference: Podcast with Jonathan Dickinson
Ask Jonathan Dickinson about his time traveling to Gabon to participate in a traditional Bwiti iboga initiation, and he describes it as an extremely, personally important experience: “It gets planted really deeply in your soul….and unfolds for a long time afterward....
Just a Drop: Why More Young Professionals Are Turning to Psychedelic Microdosing
Nowadays, it's becoming known that full-blown psychedelic experiences have shown tremendous value in the treatment of addiction, depression, PTSD, and other mental disorders. But could a dose of psychedelics 1/10th of the mind-altering threshold be valuable as well? A...
What’s the Difference between Iboga and Ibogaine? Identifying the Right Treatment for You
Ibogaine has been hailed as a miracle drug, an unparalleled addiction interrupter, and a oneiorphrenic — or “waking dream creator” — by some experts. Others are more reserved, holding that the great enthusiasm online and in some scientific circles is exaggerated....
Psychedelic Research with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT: An Interview with Dr. Joseph Barsuglia
New research into the benefits and therapeutic applications of psychedelics seems to appear every day, especially for substances like cannabis, MDMA, and psilocybin that have had a great deal of studies done in the last few years. As wonderful as this is for...
My First Iboga Experience: An Interview with Dr. Joseph Barsuglia
“I set the intention of healing the nerves in my body and removing this persistent brain fog that I self-medicate with coffee and things like that. And I also just wanted to have a spiritual experience. I got all that and then some.” - Dr. Joseph Barsuglia Approaching...
When 12 Step Programs Don’t Work: AA Founder Bill W. on How LSD Can Help
A while ago, an estranged friend called me out of the blue one morning. He was calling to say he was he sorry — he had started a program with Alcoholics Anonymous and was following the ninth step of AA, which is to make direct amends to those you’ve harmed. Once we...
