The Untold Stories of MDMA-assisted Therapy for PTSD Meet Becca Kacanda, M.S., and learn from her lived experience as a participant in phase 3 MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD clinical trials. 🎟️ Claim Your Free Pass: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit #psychedelics #LivedExperience

Join us for the first ever Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit to hear from 50+ patients, therapists & researchers. Explore the potential and limits of psychedelic treatments with raw stories that move beyond hype and fear, highlight complexity, and deepen understanding. Thrilled to take part.

You almost never see/hear/read a person-on-the-street quote in which that person is saying "Yeah, immigrants are great." If it hates it rates just like if it bleeds it leads, and we get a disproportionate number of right-wingers sharing their hate and disinformation about immigration from msm.

Dr. Lawrence Leeman of the University of New Mexico describes how the REKINDLE clinical trial will test the effectiveness of RE104 (a synthetic prodrug similar to psilocybin) in treating patients who have received a life-altering disease diagnosis.

I did a brief livestream w/Joe at @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social about my perspective as a MAPS MDMA-AT trial participant and perceptions of Psymposia’s critiques and methods. This topic is heavy and complex and difficult to talk about. Please excuse the technical difficulties…link in comments

I posted to Twitter for what looks like the fifth time this year yesterday. Checked back today and the post has 39,000 likes, 3.2k retweets — and 9 replies, and 4 quote tweets. I'm sorry folks those numbers ain't real. Bordering on a statistical impossibility. It's gotta be almost entirely fake.

Interesting... MDMA-assisted therapy as a treatment for major depressive disorder: proof of principle study www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wow this article packs it all in, quite impressed! Not thrilled about the MAHA correlation I must say..this will be interesting. www.wired.com/story/psyche...

I was told today that “lived experience is not a serious perspective”. It seems that many people aren’t aware that the field of mental health is largely based upon subjective experience, feelings, and plain observations. Lived experience runs the show. This is not hard science, folks… sorry

I’m so glad I refused to leave this unusually friendly unclaimed kitty out on the street ( she was following us around at a block party) . Although only 6 lbs and approx 10 months old, she was PREGNANT 😭 . Baby girl is now spayed and we are fostering her until she’s adopted. 💕 meet Angelica 🥰

A Thrifting Mystery, Solved: The Midwest Grotto Tradition and Catherine Bastian’s incredible Ham Can Shrines. ( by me on Substack) open.substack.com/pub/vesselsa...

I wrote about the strange writing made up by outsider artist James Hampton, which researchers have referred to as "the written equivalent of 'speaking in tongues'."

Added a very brief TL:DR synopsis in the comments section, but if this topic interests you I recommend reading the whole thing. And nope, this isn’t about taking sides, it’s about adding another important perspective to the multifaceted narrative.

Oof, I did it…. my first Substack post. More to come (although hopefully on more fun topics). The Watchdogs Need Watchdogs, Too; A Perspective on Psymposia from a former MAPS MDMA clinical trial participant substack.com/@vesselsandv...

Musk will be responsible for the deaths of 14,000,000 people. That’s a genocidal amount of death.

Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin: "I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

“Trump supporters were [are] willing to put their own lives on the line in support of their [white supremacist] political beliefs” www.basicbooks.com/titles/jonat...

A good reminder that the watchdogs need watchdogs too - sometimes the skeletons in their closet are a mirror reflecting what they purport to be so strongly against…

This guy is working for the Justice Department: "As violence erupted, his charging document said, he told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, 'Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!'" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

Sadly not a new phenomenon. Many veterans have been deported over the years, often because of drug problems they acquired after PTSD from their time in the service.

basking in the afterglow of #PS2025 ! I‘d share photos of my copanelists but they’ve requested some privacy 👁️ We’re thankful for the heartfelt support & connection w/new trial participants. The entire conference was so inspiring, thoughtful, and filled with hope. Thank you @mapsorg.bsky.social

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

I’m so excited to share I’ll be speaking at #PS2025 (June 19 at 2:30 PM on Rick Doblin's stage) in Denver, sharing insights on lived experience in psychedelic care. I'm part of a groundbreaking panel, a first at Psychedelic Science led by MDMA-assisted therapy trial participants.

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Finally, leading psychotherapy researchers begin to engage with psychedelic therapy. This is so desperately needed. Let's hope for more to come!

There’s been a lot of criticism of PAT trials for being “functionally unblinded” meaning px can guess whether or not they got placebo. Do we even had hard data for this or are we assuming? Ive been interviewing clinical trial px and actually, surprised at finding that the contrary is true!

I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

New pre-print out 🌍✨🌌 'Learning from Boundlessness: Psychedelic induced awe and epistemic shifts towards a holistic worldview' doi.org/10.21203/rs.... We explored how awe during psychedelic experiences relates to lasting shifts in sense of self, other, and reality

Bombed the guy’s girlfriend’s home and fucking bragged about it. Send them to The Hague.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

I recently found out that Sasha Sisko, who weaponized ideas published by @psymposia.bsky.social to try to gaslight me about my clinical trial experience, has a criminal history of stalking and sexual exploitation- the very thing they claim to be a watchdog for. Why is no one talking about this?

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Out now: Psychedelics and autobiographical memory - six open questions With Morten Lietz, we present 6 unanswered questions on #psychedelics and autobiographical memory & discuss why they matter, what little we know about them, and ways to better study them in the future. doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Our pilot clinical trial of psilocybin-assisted therapy for fibromyalgia was published today in Frontiers in Pain Research 🙂🍄 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pai...

MDMA may have protected Nova attack survivors from trauma, study suggests www.bbc.com/news/article...

Moving beyond "harm reduction" to "benefit enhancement" in psychedelic healthcare may be essential as more people seek guidance on therapeutic use. #psychedelicscience

Excited to dig into this library haul

New survey study recruiting individuals who have used a psychedelic substance! We are interested in learning more about how psychedelic experiences influence behaviors, and one’s sense of self in the world. Follow the link below to learn more! qrfy.io/r/WgCvvpivns

And cancel your damn Amazon prime account!

When does a mental health modality become officially considered an “evidenced based treatment” ? Is there a list I can easily search ?

My first post will be the paper I co-authored with many fine people, and that I hope will help anyone crazy enough to think they want to do psychedelic research: "Practical considerations in the establishment of psychedelic research programs". It's open access. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great work for psychedelic research to overcome RCT-based epistemic authoritarianism, led by @sdmuthu.bsky.social and @tehseennoorani.bsky.social 👏👏👏. Thankful for the invite to to collaborate, together with @trpwolff.bsky.social, @mattbagg.bsky.social and others. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪🧠💊

Love it.

A good write-up of the exhibit. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...