Count Deepak Chopra among the medical experts who see enormous promise in psychedelic substances like psilocybin or “magic mushrooms.” “I think psychedelics might wake us up,” Chopra says in the new ...

My earliest exposure to psychedelics came from growing up near the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco, well past the glory days of the Summer of Love. The Haight Street of my youth was a tourist ...

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday ...

Ken Ring was a pioneer of near-death-experience research. His first book, ‘Life at Death’ was one of the first and best, and more followed (Ring, 1980, 1984, 1998). I first met Ken in 1989, at a ...

“The mind—that seven inches of in ner space between the root of the nose and the occiput— our prized possession; its study on every level is most important,” says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen ...

The first time that I took LSD, I accepted three and a half tabs on my tongue from a man dressed up in a monkey suit. Despite the hot summer weather, I raided the winter wardrobe of the house I was ...

Whether it’s joy or anger, we’re wired to catch and spread emotions. Here's how to inoculate ourselves against negative ones. Research into the beneficial effects of psychedelic drugs, such as LSD and ...

In his book, LSD: My Problem Child, Hofmann wrote that he went on to study chemistry because he wanted to explore how life came to be through the combination of energy and elements. He earned his Ph.D ...

Editors’ Note: This article discusses suicide and contains details about mental health crises. If you are having thoughts of suicide, or are concerned that someone ...