COLORADO SPRINGS (RNS and NPR) — The door to the Colorado Psychedelic Church doesn’t look like much — a walkout basement to a home in an eastern Colorado Springs neighborhood. Faux foliage dangles ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. The claims were ...

Wellness retreats featuring spa treatments and yoga classes have long attracted travelers. But now a new trend is emerging: psychedelic retreats. These retreats are often structured travel experiences ...

Bryan Johnson, the centimillionaire who has turned his own life into a data-driven experiment in living forever, looked nervous. On Sunday afternoon, in a white room on Bowen Island in British ...

About 11% of Australians will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their life. PTSD is a mental health disorder people may develop after experiencing or witnessing a ...

Psilocybin — the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms” — is gaining scientific attention for its potential in treating neuropsychiatric conditions including depression, anxiety, substance use ...

“I found a way to look into the universe,” says non-fiction Australian filmmaker Josef Gatti in his feature debut Phenomena. Paradoxically, it turns out that the wonders of the universe are ...

Veterans and others who have suffered trauma and injuries are flocking to clinics around the world to take ibogaine. My own reason was deeply personal. Credit...Illustration By Melissa Santamaría ...

FOR FIVE years biotech startups have been betting that psychedelic substances could be turned into real medicines. One of them may have hit the jackpot. On February 17th Compass Pathways, a British ...

Rex is the author of the new book “Seeing What Is There: My Search for Sanity in the Psychedelic Era.” During my first psychedelic session, a violin flourish turned the sky yellow. A comet’s tail of ...

Mystics once spent years meditating in caves in search of transcendence. Today, a growing number of people believe something similar can be reached in a single afternoon with the help of a psychedelic ...