Month: March 2023

Microdosing Research: A Woman Says A Novel Way Of Taking Magic Mushrooms Stopped Her Depression June 29, 2022 Posted by  Admin 29JUN THE QUESTION: HOW CAN WE USE ANECDOTAL REPORTS TO INFORM PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE? This year, a group of leading psychedelic scientists wrote about the urgent need to figure out how mental health…

Microdosing For Anxiety: Risks, Benefits, & the Transformational June 29, 2022 Posted by  Admin 29MAR ANXIETY IN TODAY’S WORLD Many of us are familiar with the experience of anxiety—sweaty palms, racing heartbeat, and frantic thinking. The prevalence of anxiety in today’s world is significant: as the most common mental health challenge…

Softening the Edge: How a “Type-A” Professional Used Microdosing to Rediscover Balance June 29, 2022 Posted by  Admin 20APR “I lived in New York for 13 years. You have to have a certain healthy dose of skepticism and cynicism to live there. I’m saying right now, these medicines have the power…

Is Microdosing a Placebo? Here’s what our Head of Research Says June 29, 2022 Posted by  Admin 02JUN Summary: I respond here to criticisms about microdosing psychedelics, which assert that the benefits are mostly placebo. I argue that mindfulness is a crucial part of psychedelic therapy, for both low and high…

  29JUN Working with psychedelics is not as straightforward as we’ve been led to believe. Instead of viewing psychedelics through the lens of a temporary substance intervention, what if we viewed intentional psychedelic use as a skill? One that has the potential to be an important meta-skill, heightening our capacity…

  JAN A few months after the pandemic began to spread across the US, Dominic found himself struggling. On the surface, life was good. The child of poor immigrants, he had worked his way up to a great job with a tech startup in San Francisco. The transition to working…