At the beginning of this article, the author opens up about their traumatic history and how they sought the wisdom of psilocybin mushrooms to catalyze their healing process. Post-psychedelic experience, the author juxtaposes spirituality, mainly Christianity, with their belief of ‘queerness is that ability to survive in the midst of hell’ and calls for queer individuals to embrace entheogens as a sacred Eucharist.

There is an emerging multi-billon dollar market for psychedelic therapies as the research becomes more mainstream. As for-profit companies begin to commodify psilocybin, researchers and activists demand these companies pay reparations for the stolen knowledge from the Mazatec people and engage in a reciprocal relationship with Indigenous peoples.

Ayahuasca’s place in mestizo and Indigenous Peruvian healing practices featured extensively in Marlene Dobkin de Rios’ work as a medical anthropologist and transcultural psychotherapist.

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The Supreme Court’s December 2020 ruling in Tanzin v. Tanvir has several lessons for psychedelic religions, as well as the promise that they have a path to compensation for discrimination at the hand of federal officials. Psychedelics law expert Gary Smith explains the ruling and its potential opportunity for expanded recognition of psychedelic religious liberty.

This article summarizes psychiatric and neuroscientific findings on the similarities between psychedelic and psychiatric hallucinations.

DECEMBER 8, 2020, COLOTLÁN, JALISCO. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN The Wixárika Regional Council for the Defense of Wirikuta made up of the Traditional, Civil and...

Maria Mocerino interviews Sara Reed, an MDMA-assisted psychotherapy provider at the forefront of bringing psychedelic medicine to underserved groups about MDMA as a promising treatment for racial trauma, navigating the personal and political realities that can emerge in dosing sessions, White feminism, and the importance of providing equitable access to psychedelic-assisted therapies.

The labeling of the psychedelic experience as ‘mystical’ may do little to improve public opinion about psychedelics, especially among those with traditional, conservative values. While it is no surprise that psychedelics can induce deep spiritual experiences, there is no scientific evidence that psychedelics can change one’s political or religious beliefs.