Posts tagged with 'psychedelics'
The 5 minute 'Health' read - Psychedelics, recent research (February)
17th February 2024
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write an approximately 1,200 word (5 minutes to read) blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of …
The 5 minute 'Health' read - Background
8th January 2024
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write a brief approximately 1,200 word (5 minute read) newsletter/blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of …
Psychedelic integration - another take on a lifelong challenge
30th August 2022
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." Friedrich Nietzsche "When I get to heaven, they will not ask me 'Why were you not Moses?'. They will ask 'Why were you not Susya? Why …
Positive psychology and psychedelics: possible synergies
22nd June 2022
I gave a talk today about Positive Psychology and suggested a couple of areas where there could be helpful synergies with psychedelics. Here is the full downloadable talk and below are a few of the slides ... initially just below are the first three: I've written in the past about …
5th international 'breaking convention' psychedelic conference: 1st morning - microdosing and group retreats & ceremonies
22nd August 2019
'Breaking Convention' - the fifth biennial international conference on psychedelics - took place at Greenwich University in London from 16th-18th August. There were apparently 1,200 or so attendees for the 6 concurrent programmes - academic, workshop, performance, cinema, entertainment & installations - as well as an art exhibition. I went …
Psychedelics and end of life distress
26th April 2019
I've been asked to write a short book section on "Psychedelics and dying" and that has nudged me into looking at this territory here on the blog. It's a fascinating subject in all kinds of ways. With the limited space I have, I'd like to comment briefly on four overlapping …
Recent research: articles from winter/spring journals
21st April 2019
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains well over 27,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant …
Recent psychedelic research: lessons from current personal experience - suggestions
29th March 2019
Sapere aude! Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the battle cry of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant I have recently described my experiences taking a couple of (legal) psilocybin trips in the Netherlands - see "Lessons from current personal experience - introduction" and "Lessons from current personal experience - …
Recent psychedelic research: lessons from current personal experience - description
28th March 2019
God-speed ... To heart-opened light-burst ... Love-drenched ... Out-breath, walls melt To the tender darkness ... Mithril to wings. Willie Grieve (a friend sending good wishes for the journey). Surrendering ... to liquid night ... Welcoming dissolution A path of music ... To love's lessons ... In a sky of …
Recent psychedelic research: further exploration
18th January 2019
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust "There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done." Aldous Huxley This is the ninth …