In their keynote address delivered at the Arctic Visions Psychedelic Conference, Bia Labate and Henrique Fernandes Antunes describe how the psychedelic community is facing significant challenges following the FDA's decision on MDMA-assisted therapy, raising concerns about commodification, environmental impacts, and inclusivity. This moment presents an opportunity to reassess the movement's direction, addressing inequalities, the rights of Indigenous and marginalized groups, and the need for broader cultural perspectives beyond biomedicalization.

The psychedelic renaissance, marked by the legalization of certain psychedelics, raises questions about their effects on child development, particularly while breastfeeding. Santo Daime, a Brazilian spiritual practice involving ayahuasca, shows advanced child development but lacks scientific research on safety. Observations suggest potential benefits, yet further study is crucial to understand long-term impacts.

Contemporary networks in Brazil have expanded, connecting Indigenous groups like the Yawanawá with non-Indigenous social actors, like the C'eu do Mar branch of Santo Daime. These intercultural alliances, particularly in regards to the use of ayahuasca and a group of "forest medicines," reflect a process of cultural revitalization, spiritual exchanges, and kinship production. They also reveal diverse interpretations, conflicts, and transformations within these relationships.

Robin Farquharson is a transitional figure through whom it is possible to explore the transformation of LSD from a therapeutic tool used by psychiatrists, to a weapon of countercultural subversion turned against the psychiatric authorities. Mark Gallagher argues that historians of mental patient unionism in Britain have not paid enough attention to Farquharson or his journey from academia to activism.

Is mainstreaming psychedelics a good thing? Bia Labate and Henrique Antunes use this question as inspiration for presenting a different narrative of psychedelic science and culture in their keynote address for the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research conference, held in the Netherlands June 6-8, 2024.

Bia Labate's opening remarks for Psychedelic Culture 2024 emphasize the need for change and the collective fight required to integrate community, commit to raising awareness, and promote psychedelic justice and rights. The future of the psychedelic movement relies on the choices we make now.

In this article, Stephen Snelders explores a watershed in the diffusion of LSD in the Netherlands that took place in the 1960s.

The histories of electronics and psychedelics are intertwined as Peter Sachs Collopy shows in this article about LSD and video in the mid-twentieth century. Collopy shows that both technologies were understood by their users as tools for exploring and altering consciousness.

A new study suggests that participation in Indigenous-led ayahuasca retreats is associated with increased nature-relatedness. Ayahuasca has, in the past, been implicated in eliciting shifts in people’s relationships, perspectives and sensitivity towards nature, potentially catalysing pro-environmental awareness.

Andrew Jones explores the connection between LSD and the origins of clinical theology illuminating the striking gendered connection to mother-blaming. Jones shows how psychedelic experiences were navigated in a Christian theological context through the examination of a particular international collaboration that took place in the mid-1900s between a Canadian and a Brit.