I sat down with Norman Ohler, bestselling author of Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany and Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age, to explore a question that runs quietly through his work: the role of psychoactive substances throughout human history. Our discussion moved across time
💗 MDMA May Work Without the Mystical Experience Synopsis: A new analysis of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD found that mystical experiences themselves did not significantly explain improvements in PTSD symptoms. Instead, the strongest link was positive emotional states: feelings of joy, peace & love. My Take: This is important because
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: What happens when Psychedelics change the way you see the person you love. I wrote something about relationships that unexpectedly took off: The note wasn’t really about Greece, sharks, or
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This Week: The quiet truth most people in Psychedelic spaces won’t say out loud: not everything has to heal, not everything has to be sacred, not everything has to justify itself. Sometimes
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Psychedelics don’t end status games…they just make them harder to see. In The Status Game, Will Storr argues that humans inevitably play status games…almost always unconsciously. The forms
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why the fight to keep alcohol at the center of culture has already lost. Tomorrow will be 8 years since I quit alcohol. Around this time each year, I think about
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Injectable MDMA with injectable ketamine. Iboga, Bufo & mushrooms in the same weekend. Past-life certainty. At what point does exploration become escalation? A Few Recent Things Made Me Ask The
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The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why Psychedelic culture recreated the very hierarchies it claims to oppose. Psychedelic culture likes to think of itself as anti-system, anti-hierarchy & anti-status games. Spend enough time around
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: 6 rules I wish someone had given me before I started exploring Psychedelics. Every week I get some version of the same question: “Where should I start with Psychedelics?” It’s
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: why what feels “normal” is just the result of constant inputs. Inspired by a recent piece from Aella on how cultural inputs shape expectation. Defaultland In Defaultland, people regulate being alive:
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: A Tour Through the Psychedelic Graveyard. No, Ayahuasca isn’t calling you. It’s one of hundreds of psychoactive plants humans have used throughout history. The reason you’ve heard of
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: What if Psychedelics aren’t trying to heal us at all…but reshape what we pay attention to? What If We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Question? I’ll never forget
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why remembering we're only here for like 5 minutes changed how I think about life. Recently, during an MDMA experience, a woman said, “We’re here for like 5
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: 7 years with Psychedelics, I’m realizing the conversation around Psychedelics is still incomplete. Seven years ago, I smoked Bufo for the first time. I skipped the entry-level Psychedelics entirely
The Psychedelic Blog is an independent media brand covering drugs, altered states & the culture surrounding them. This week: Why some people don’t get better after Psychedelics…they get worse. The first few months after my first transcendent experience with Bufo, I was insufferable. A lifelong atheist, I had