Year: 2023

The 8 Steps to Help You Break Bad Habits in 2024

January is here again. The calendar equivalent of a bucket of icy water over the head, shocking you into a new year. A new year in which we vow that we will be a ‘better’ version of ourselves. But how do we make these grand plans stick?

5 Trippy Christmas Tunes to Make the Season Weird

It’s the festive season! Whether you love it or loathe it, good luck trying to escape it. Sometimes it’s easier to just go with the flow and let it wash over you, like a twinkling bulldozer of merriment. But there are ways to make it that bit more groovy, just that little more psychedelic — whether you microdose over the Christmas turkey or not…

Can Psychedelics Replace Opioids As Addiction-Free Painkillers?

We tend to associate the current wave of psychedelic research with the mental health sphere. Depression, anxiety, PTSD — these conditions can all be greatly improved with the administration of psychedelics, such as psilocybin. However, recent study has revealed that these substances can also treat physical pain as well as mental anguish. And perhaps, the two might be more connected than you originally thought…

How Microdosing Can Help You Survive the Festive Season

Ready for the holidays? Your Christmas, your Hannukah, your Kwanzaa? Whatever you celebrate, you’re probably looking forward to good food, merriment, and spending quality time with loved ones.

How Our Personality Traits Influence Our Psychedelic Experiences

No two psychedelic trips are the same. There are so many different factors, both internal and external, that are constantly in flux — not to mention the individual magic of each mushroom. However, researchers have recently begun to delve into how our personality traits can directly affect the kind of psychedelic trip we have, and fascinatingly, how in turn psychedelic trips can affect our personality…

Festive Gift Guide for the Psychedelically Curious

When it comes to Christmas shopping, if you’re anything like us, sometimes you may find yourself buying gifts for your loved ones that you’d really like all for yourself. Sure, it’s a little cheeky, but maybe they’ll re-gift it to you! Or, actually, even better, you might just awaken in them a new interest you can share together…

How Psilocybin Affects the 5 Senses

We tend to take the magic of our 5 senses for granted. The all-encompassing sensorial picture we build of the world through sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound is truly some sort of natural magic. Even when just one sense is altered or changed it can deeply affect the way we live our lives. 

The Stages of Ego Death

The term “Ego Death” is thrown around a lot in psychedelic circles these days, but as anyone who has undergone such an experience can espouse, there are a great many things we still don’t fully understand, consciousness being one of them. As public opinion changes, and the value of these experiences and the substances that can induce them is accepted more into society, and the traditional practices and ceremonial use of these substances are studied and integrated into modern practice, we will get closer to understanding our selves, our Ego, and what it means for it to die.

Fab Fungi: The History of Penicillin

When we think about medicinal mushrooms, the first thing that probably comes to mind is the current ‘shroom boom’ that tips psilocybin mushrooms to be our new healthcare heroes. But, would you believe that this is not the first time that fungi has made its mark in medicine? We are talking, of course, about penicillin. 

Can Psychedelics Reconnect Us with Animism?

When you were a kid, did you ever talk to trees? Or pebbles? Of course, you spoke to animals — and probably still do! Did you used to try and catch out your toys, believing that they were alive and going about their business, in a Toy Story-esque fashion, just out of sight? Well you my friend, may have already had a brush with Animism. 

5 Psychedelic Documentaries to Enjoy this Sofa Season

It’s rainy. It’s windy. You go to work in the dark. You leave work in the dark. Just looking out the window makes you go; ‘nah.’ You can only hope that the sodden autumn skies will make way for a crisp, perhaps snow dusted, winter. Sure, it sucks outside. But, all is not lost. Because inside, it’s sofa season! 

Why Do We Yawn When Coming Up On Shrooms?

You’ve just taken your mushrooms. You’re just starting to feel the effects; you’re coming up! But despite your excitement you just can’t stop yawning. Well, you’re not alone. Yawning is a relatively common part of the psychedelic experience. We dive into why this happens, and how you can prevent it.