only a step or two away from psychedelic therapy options for forced addiction treatment in Saskatchewan? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shocking scan results: I have a brain. Will update when I figure out if it has consciousness.

How long before Amy and John Griffin leave NYC and blame it on lawsuit backlash from The Tell (it's actually Mamdani)

The same year that Doblin started MAPS (1986) to spread the good word of Stan Grof, Albert Ellis predicted that "the extremists who may well blow us all to bits in the not-too-distant future will most probably hold and implement transpersonal attitudes."

Transpersonal psychology is a new religious movement.

A memory researcher was falsely accused of rape due to "unconscious transferrence" -- the very phenomenon he studies. The story has been uncritically repeated in psych textbooks/media for decades, yet I can find no evidence it happened. Here's everything I found: medium.com/@kgreenstien...

How/why can Michael Pollan seriously get away with saying behaviourism was the dominant school of thought in psych in the 20th century? I have noticed this kind of behaviourism strawman from Grof/MAPS-oriented people in psychedelics for a while, completely ignoring the entire cog revolution

“As the 2010s rolled on, the Carhart-Harris group at Imperial College consistently found precisely what they had expected to find” (lmao)

This is so misleading — more clear evidence of how entrenched dubious ideas about memory are in psychedelic therapy.

Thank you @profcrunk.bsky.social for calling out the issue underlying the scourge of mass shootings in this country. Mental health is the easy answer, and it is obviously part of the problem, but the patriarchy rotting our society from the roots has to be addressed. www.thecut.com/article/shre...

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Happy 83rd anniversary of the first (macro) LSD trip and don‘t forget: there’s nothing about being high on LSD that makes you better at remembering 🫠

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Housing affordability is a gender issue!

Also: the people who know and try to do something about it are frequently punished in extreme and disproportionate ways.

“A good therapist will tell you snakes symbolise transformation“ says NYT reporter re: his experience of ”surrendering“ to Ibogaine. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... Coincidentally, released on the 73rd anniversary of MK Ultra. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

"The patient is often part of the issue", Phil Wolfson, November 2024, re: therapists sexually abusing patients.

I think it's likely there are a fair few people who have heard an "insiders" story about Yensen and Dryer's abuses. I also remembering hearing murmurs years ago that there was "more to the story", implying we shouldn't be overly critical of MAPS. This kind of secret-knowledge is very predictable.

Reading @psychedelicoverground.com 's newletter on making an April fools day joke about becming MAPS australia's new directr and I can't say enough how what an inconceivable level of bonkers to me that anyone takes MAPS or Rick Doblin seriously still.

I spoke with Jacobin about how the RBA is a key instrument of the capitalists to keep their boots on our neck, one nation, housing and how the Labor-dominated union movement has been completely absent on housing here: jacobin.com/2026/04/aust...

"emergent material" is the new "repressed memories"

Yehuda et al 2026 cite Yehuda et al 2015 to support their claim that trauma research supports "enabling integration of previously fragmented or avoided experiences" yet this is nowhere in the 2015 paper. Imo, this is a dangerous sanitisation of transpersonal psych + opens doors to repressed memory

Ronan Farrow and Hamilton Morris are both 1987 NYC nepo babies. One grew up with a predator, saw the realities of how systems protect them and speaks truth to power. The other didn't and spends his time mocking and belittling victim-survivors, saying they're liars.

Australian memory researcher and lawyer, Donald Thomson, has been claiming for years that he was falsely accused of rape in 1975, while he was on TV speaking about memory errors. I can find no media reporting/content of any form discussing the case prior to Thomson sharing the story himself - why?

MAPS warning here implies Yensen was licensed when he wasn't. MAPS hired him unregistered -- Yensen used this to avoid financial/legal responsibility, claiming he was never in px/provider relationship. Remind me again why MAPS and Bourzat have anything to do with anything in Australia?

Did we all know Lykos is conducting additional clinical trials?Also, I thought Lykos was dead and they rebranded? Also weird to say Australia has a MDMA-assisted therapy program? I thought TGA approved protocols individually? Though, yes, likely all based on MAPS transpersonal psych (embarassing)

"Between 2024 and 2025, the number of psilocybin retail stores in Canada increased from a total of 57 to 75, a 33% increase in stores per 100,000 individuals (0.18 to 0.24)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Labor activist Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez. Huerta said that she kept the secret for the last sixty years because she was worried that the abuse would hurt the movement she spent her entire life fighting for.

The Dream-God (1874) - One man's account of his intense and elaborate visions while under the influence of morphine, including 500 foot lizards and conversations with Confucius and Zoroaster. Read it here: http://bit.ly/17TOGOF

"Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has condemned his prosecution in Greece over remarks about experimenting with ecstasy in Sydney nearly 40 years ago as "politically motivated", warning the case reflects a deeper institutional decline in Europe." www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

"NYC Man Sentenced for Trafficking MDMA...[the] 78‑mo prison sentence reflects the damage caused by his role funneling ecstasy into New York and fueling addiction and potential crime in our neighborhoods" say police as billionaires do underground MDMA therapy with Holotropic Breathwork facilitators.

Gabor Maté is going to facilitate a talk on the architecture of silence in spiritual culture while sitting on the faculty of Mind Medicine Australia alongside Francoise Bourzat...the thread of his silences could go on and on...maybe he'll talk about the "ad hoc" committee he formed with Wolfson...

Is anyone aware of Bob Spitzer (psychiatrist best known for DSM-III) working with LSD at Stanford in the 1960s? I heard it mentioned in a podcast but cannot find anything -- also good podcast about NLP, Esalen and the human potential movement.

Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority.

Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice

Another talk on how a single small Zombie-trial biased the results for fluoxetine in influential Lancet meta-analyses. This time for the University of Cambridge. With @richlyus.bsky.social and @floriannaudet.bsky.social Time: 26 February, 12:30-13:30 (UK), via Zoom talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

"British newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, a Czechoslovak-born Jew" accompanied Grof super fan Vaclav Havel on his 1990 trip to Israel. Maxwell was a 'born-again' Jew who commissioned an Israeli artist to depict him as "Samson at the Gates of Gaza" www.jta.org/archive/180-...

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

To summarise, Amy Griffin (author of The Tell, a book about uncovering repressed memories of CSA) has been a close supporter of Eva Dubin (as recent as 2022), who ardently defended Epstein+Maxwell against CSA allegations/convictions (2021). Both are married to hedge fund billionaires - super normal.

Epstein was invited to Amy Griffin's home in 2014 for a charity event connected to the Dubin Breast Center -- Griffin and Dubin seem to be friends/mutual supporters www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

To be extra clear, Epstein was a registered sex offender (Level 3 - high risk of reoffending) in NY when Amy Griffin invited him into her home for a charity event on breast cancer and 'healthy living' for women.

imagine if instead they investigated and responded to why so many vets wanted cocaine and MDMA taskandpurpose.com/news/va-camp...

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

For academics still paying attention, T the names "Nowak" and "Kosslyn" appear several thousand times in the new Epstein files dump. You can search at www.justice.gov/epstein

Jeffrey Epstein getting Tania de Jong's endless promo emails is a level of hilarious absurdity that really transcends this newtonian-cartesian world www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

2014 charity invite to home of Amy Griffin (The Tell) for 'New Ideas in Preventing Breast Cancer and Promoting Health Living', sent to Epstein/assistant Lesley Groff www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Joscha Bach on deception and MDMA in Epstein files. Also, his flight arrangements to Epstein's island.

casually searched Rick Doblin in the Epstein files and this deranged email from Joscha Bach is first thing I read — wow okay

From what I can tell, it seems Mate let his medical registration lapse right around the same time, 2011. Health Canada didn't take it criminal, but there was a failure of the medical community to speak to his recklessness and pseudoscience www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls www.justice.gov/epstein