Psychedelics

Study Looks At Long-Term Effects Of Ibogaine On Addiction

Ibogaine has shown remarkable proficiency helping people beat drug addictions. The substance, derived from the roots of the African iboga shrub, is growing in popularity in treatment centers in countries where it is legal, particularly to combat opiate addictions. Now, researchers are looking at...

Ayahuasca Vs. Iboga

In comparing Iboga and Ayahuasca the most difficult part is finding any common ground at all. They are as different as two experiences could be, though each of them are master medicines in their own right. The Iboga experience is completely unique in the...

8 Sacred Herbs To Aid The Lucid Dreamer

The plants of our world are the fulcrum of life as we know it. Bestowing us with health, sustenance, and expansion of the mind's functionality, we owe our very existence to the mighty, yet delicate plant life that we commonly take for granted. Some...

Watch: Psychedelics As Tools For Spirituality

As Timothy Leary put it, a psychedelic experience is “a period of increased reactivity to stimuli both from within and from without.” In a YouTube video, freestyler Jason Silva eloquently discusses the potential for exploration of consciousness that psychedelics offer. In fluid, poetic detail complete with trippy music...

7 People Who Say They Owe Their Huge Success To Psychedelics

Don’t do drugs! They’ll lead you down the path to perdition! That’s the message beaten into our heads from our earliest years. But not everybody listens, of course. Some who didn’t listen have gone on to do great things, even after using the most...

Watch: Entering Godmode — How Entheogens Tap Us Into The Divine

This is how Jason Silva’s latest video begins. The beanie-and-sweatshirt-clad spoken word freestyler releases a video each week in which he chews over such topics as human consciousness, societal systems, existence itself, and the allure of scientific thought. In this rendition he is sitting on...

A Passion For Powerful Plants And People

Plantswoman and shamanic practitioner Sitaramaya Sita created Visionary Convergence to find common ground and cultivate community and awareness for entheogenic (“generating the divine within”) visionary plants such as ayahuasca, psilocybin mushrooms, iboga, peyote, cannabis, San Pedro cactus, and other psychedelic sacred medicines. Sita has...