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The New Science of Psychedelics

To anyone who lived through the 1960s, the proposition that psychedelic drugs might have a positive contribution to make to our mental health must sound absurd. Along with hallucinogens like mescaline and psilocybin (that is, magic mushrooms), LSD was often blamed for bad trips that sent people to the psych ward. These drugs could make you crazy. So how is it possible that, 50 years later, researchers working at institutions such as New York University, Johns Hopkins, UCLA and Imperial College in London are discovering that, when administered in a supportive therapeutic setting, psychedelics can actually make you sane? Or that they may have profound things to teach us about how the mind works,…

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The Psychedelic Society

The Psychedelic Society advocates the careful use of psychedelics as a tool for awakening to the unity and interconnectedness of all things. You could say we advocate the use of psychedelics as endosyndelics (from the Greek endosyndesi: interconnection, delos: make visible, reveal). The profound experiences of unity and interconnectedness reliably brought about by strong psychedelic trips can help people to live lives of greater love, compassion and joy