Robert Edward Grant isn't the only person to think they have magically awakened ChatGPT in the last few weeks, but he's the only one with hundreds of thousands of online followers. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/sir-robert...

Come to this in 90 mins.

Come to this free online debate / discussion tomorrow between myself and Philippe Lucas, head of safe access at MAPS, on 'go fast or slow down on psychedelic liberalization'. www.eventbrite.com/e/go-faster-...

New article in 'Salon' by Elizabeth Hlavinka about the bad & the good sides of 'bad trips', interviewing Eirini Argyri & myself about our work on the Challenging #Psychedelic Experiences Project exploring recovery & growth after post-psychedelic extended difficulties www.salon.com/2025/06/06/b...

Which post psychedelic difficulties last longest and cause the most suffering, and what coping techniques do people find helpful for different symptoms? www.psypost.org/new-study-sh...

If you or someone you know needs support and sympathy in the midst of post psychedelic difficulties, come to our free online peer support group this Sunday at 6pm UK time. [email protected]

Blew my mind a bit to look at the rapidly growing market for AI friends / assistants / therapists / lovers (and sometimes all those roles at once), and the psychological and ethical impacts. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/all-your-f...

Our latest CPEP, led by @eirini-k-a.bsky.social exploring ontological shock & existential challenge as extended difficulties following a psychedelic experience - highlighting that grounding practices, integration support, & time were critical in helping participants cope. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Another victim of ketamine addiction. www.ladbible.com/news/crime/e...

I spoke to @philosojules.bsky.social about the history of fairies for this fascinating guide he's now written: www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/what-every...

Amazing paper on harms from ketamine use disorder from Celia Morgan's team at Exeter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ari Kuschnir, whose AI generated videos have been seen hundreds of millions of times this year, says his aim is to offer glimpses of alternative, more hopeful realities. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/ai-generat...

Psychedelics could play a leading role in mental health care. But if approval is rushed without necessary guardrails in place, there will be a backlash, and these drugs will be relegated to the fringes of alternative health. That would be a tragic missed opportunity. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Jon Lubecky, former MAPS veterans lobbyist, taking no prisoners in his analysis of what's wrong with the 'psychedelic movement' www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/jon-lubeck...

Wow the world's first underground degree. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...

Emergency reports of children under 11 accidentally consuming magic mushrooms went up over 700% from 2019 to 2023 in the US. Parents, be careful with your shrooms!

Nine things you should know before working in the psychedelic industry. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/nine-thing...

A group of wealthy right-wing Americans have formulated a plan to make sure the next Pope is right-wing, by scouring the IDs of cardinals and finding incriminating information on any likely to vote for a left-wing candidate. cruxnow.com/church-in-th...

Pronatalism makes NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/el...

MAHA funder Ford Smith opens up about ketamine dependency and a psychotic break he had at Burning Man. doubleblindmag.com/is-ketamine-...

Middlebury Centre on Terrorism develops my 2021 exploration of the far-right tendencies of the starseed movement. www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...

'The final analysis included 21 studies. Studies that used a non-active placebo reported large or medium antidepressant effects for psilocybin and MDMA. In contrast, studies that used an active placebo reported no antidepressant effects.' www.psypost.org/antidepressa...

You ever heard it mentioned, at any psychedelic conference or in any psychedelic paper? Huge glaring silence on the entire episode. Never happened!

Why don't any psychedelic researchers ever acknowledge or apologise for their universities' involvements in MKUltra - the worst human rights abuse on US citizens by their own government? Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, McGill, Berkeley, UCLA, Oklahoma, Illinois...

Phenomenal sourcing by NPR to identify Antonio Gracias as "Employee 4" at SSA and how he might have broken laws and agreements www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

On Opus Dei, culty organisations trying to be less culty, and the rise of post-liberalism and Integralism in US Catholic intellectual and political circles. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/can-opus-d...

New owner of Lykos lays out social security cuts to the voters of Wisconsin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLIe...

Psychedelic Alpha Launches TripRadar I am very pleased to announce our latest product: TripRadar, which allows you to see, share, and sync with the global psychedelic experience in real time. Our new app has several unique features...

One-quarter of women and one-eighth of men reported heightened same-sex attraction following psychedelic use. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

RFK, secretary of HHS, promoting Vitamin A as a remedy for measles. Now kids in Texas being treated for measles and Vitamin A toxicity. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/h...

After blowing the whistle on a psychedelic clergy study over 18 months ago, I recently received this letter from Johns Hopkins' Office of Human Subjects Research finding multiple counts of "serious non-compliance" with federal human subject protections. www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/breaking-j...

Peter Thiel backs the Hallow prayer app, which is now promoting “The Way,” a book composed by Josemaría Escrivá, the initiator of Opus Dei. Leonard Leo (Federalist Society, Teneo) reportedly belongs to Opus Dei. 1/

Really sounds like Putin. Are they going to start finding 'ethnic Americans' in Greenland who need to be protected?

This will be worth a watch, tomorrow (Friday) 7.30pm UK time. www.youtube.com/live/wRkz4jq...

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

The equivalent of the Apocalypse in UFO culture is ‘Disclosure’. Like the Apocalypse, devotees keep waiting and waiting for it and it never quite happens. Except maybe it is...https://www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/uap-disclosure-prepare-for-mass-ontological

Who has Elon hired to help him slash social security costs? The probable new owner of Lykos, Antonio Gracias! #netzerotrauma www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

Take enough ketamine and you can start to encounter ketamine entities who tell you to...take more ketamine. That's what happened to Marcia Moore, the first populariser of ketamine in the 1970s. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The radical leftist stock market is the enemy within.

Do any psychedelic training courses have discussions about the nature of the NHI one can encounter - benevolent, mischievous, predatory - and the correct modes of doing business with Fairyland, according to western folk-lore? www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/elf-and-sa...

On Peter Thiel, and a new alliance emerging between Tech, the Pentagon and the Christian Right. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/peter-thie...

Celia Morgan on the risks of regular ketamine use www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

You may not know for sure, luckily I have a simple questionnaire that will tell you.

What does PSFC see as the shadow side of the psychedelic movement? Good question from @josh-hardman.bsky.social and interesting response - although note PSFC mentions safety initiatives in its roadmap but doesnt actively recommend donors should fund them! Although some do. youtu.be/6icxB_EK-7g?...

Opus Dei, Santo Daime illuminations, how Ozempic is changing the impulse economy, a fitness influencer one-shotted by ayahuasca, and a ketamine queen at DOGE… www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/15-interes...

Elizabeth Koch, (daugher of one of the Koch brothers) gives $1.5 million to support students at Naropa studying psychedelic decolonialism, indigenous spirituality and the music of Sun Ra. Elite shamanification. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

The psychedelic renaissance was sold as being safer than the wild 60s, because everything would happen under clinical conditions. In fact, the hype created demand that could only be met in the underground. www.persuasion.community/p/psychedeli...

Mavis tried out underground MDMA therapy from an experienced psychedelic therapist. She experienced hypomania afterwards + feels she wasn’t properly screened before the session (she had a family history of severe mental illness), or supported afterwards. www.youtube.com/watch?embeds...

Reading a lot of Jacques Vallee at the moment, for next Friday's essay. Here's a conversation with him and great 'mystical humanities' scholar Jeffrey Kripal on UFOs. www.documentjournal.com/2024/05/jacq...