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A femme figure with psychedelic plants growing from her head against a pink background representing psychedelic medicine.

Abortion, Plants, & Whispered Networks of Botanical Knowledge

Women's whisper networks have always played a major role in the spread of knowledge about plants and natural abortion methods.
Judith Redwing Keyssar

Redwing Keyssar: Nurse, Midwife to the Dying, Ceremonialist

There is a reason we call it Mother Earth. Nature teaches us. It nurtures. It nourishes. It protects. All that is born, comes from...
Historian Wendy Kline discusses her journey from playing the violin in her youth to studying the history of music and psychedelics.

A Historian’s Reflection on Music and Psychedelics

I will never forget the moment music transported me out of my own body.  I was eleven years old, performing the fourth movement of Handel’s...
music psychedelic therapy

How Music Therapists Helped Build Psychedelic Therapy

Hermina Browne and Helen Bonny are two revolutionary figures in the history of using music in psychedelic therapy. As we navigate the current psychedelic renaissance we can learn a lot from their work.

“Please Write Up Your Work!”: Laura Archera Huxley as a Psychedelic...

Laura Archera Huxley, author of You Are Not the Target (1963), was a pioneer in postwar psychedelic science and second wife to Aldous Huxley. She was an active, ambitious, and controversial participant during psychedelics’ early years in the United States.
A psychedelic artistic portrait of Maria Nys Huxley.

Another Aspect of Reality: Maria Nys Huxley’s Influence on Psychedelic History

Maria Nys Huxley was an active participant in 20th century psychedelic culture. Though most of her work was behind the scenes, she contributed to the success of Aldous Huxley's career.
A depiction of a human mind with doors and stairs leading to it.

Kin Spruijt: A Psychedelic Nurse in a Dutch Psychiatric Clinic

Since at least the 1840s psychiatrists have administered psychedelics to treat their patients. From the 1950s onwards this happened with an increasing appreciation of...
Artistic rendition of Valentina Wasson.

The Cost of Omission: Dr. Valentina Wasson and Getting Our Stories...

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: ambitious, brave, and pioneering white man travels to Mexico in the 1950s and is invited to a...
Five figures with a white aura representing the heroines of mescaline

Heroines of Mescaline

In 1905, several women (and one man), detained at a psychiatric institution in Breslau, now Poland, were administered extracts of the Peyote cactus intravenously....
A woman with long dark hair and yellow shirt, background is an image of ecstasy pills

‘Sorted’ for Es? Women and Ecstasy in 1990s Britain

Growing up in Britain in the mid ‘90s, the name, and image, of Leah Betts featured prominently in my drugs education. Black billboards across...
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