Hello everybody! A colleague and me wrote a blog on microdosing for our university's science blog (University of Leiden). Sadly, I'm not allowed to repost the whole blog over here (yet) due to the university's publishing embargo policy, but here is the so-called "trailer" and a direct link to...

Hi all, I was asked to bring this up on the forum. On the 26th of May 2017 there will be an event to celebrate 50 years since the first summer of love in "Amsterdam Noord", Netherlands. There will be a number of acts and a psilohuasca ceremony. For more information on the event take a look at...

I haven't bee here on this forum for a long time but I just came across this piece of, well, interesting science and this seemed like a good place to drop it, hehe. Obviously the author has her own research goals, but the interesting thing I take from this, by reinterpreting their admittedly...

Psychedelic drugs, magical thinking and psychosis. Carhart-Harris R. ABSTRACT: Psychedelic ('psyche'=soul/mind and 'delos'=to make visible or clear) drugs have been used for centuries in mystical ceremonies. In the 1950/60s they were used widely in psychotherapy, under the premise that...

I haven't posted in a long time, but I got to think of creativity today, which reminded me of an old thread about the nature of the universe. And one thing that came up was whether the universe was creative or not. I don't want to get into that question but I did get the feeling that there were...

Up front, thanks IJC for writing “we’re all fucking entities” in the other thread, haha. Actually all that you describe there is very similar to how I felt a couple of months ago, but sadly it went away again after a couple of weeks. But it feels like it's coming back because of what you wrote...

So, today I've had a lecture/discussion on Aristotle's definition of the soul, and how this relates to the soul-body problem. In Aristotle's view (or so does at least most of his reasoning go) the soul and body are not two different things, but one and the same thing. I have to explain this...

Thought I'd share this. This looks simply amazing. :D "Ferrofluid Sculpture A steel sculpture with changing magnetisation is coated with ferrofluid. The fluid is pulled in the direction of increasing flux density and forms peaks, which become smaller in higher flux density. At an accumulation...

What are your thoughts on things like a GPS system, the whole iPhone generation of mobile phones, a calculator, maybe even a clock, and of course computers being or becoming part of the Mind, being extensions of the Mind, enhancing the Mind? This might sound pretty counter-intuitive. It sure did...

Cardiotoxicity associated with the synthetic cannabinoid, K9, with laboratory confirmation. By Young et al. ABSTRACT: Synthetic cannabinoids have been popular recreational drugs of abuse for their psychoactive properties. Five of the many synthetic cannabinoids have been recently banned in the...

Interesting case of a severely amnesic patient, due to bilateral medial temporal damage, I came across while studying: I wonder if psychedelics might get their profound effect on time perception (partially) through (almost) completely shutting down the hippocampus... :?: PS: I'm not sure...

Ok well yesterday i took lsd for the first time with a good friend of mine. Ive taken mushrooms before, alot of semi-tripping lsa doses (like i tend to call em (= between 100-200seeds mg, just giving me a nice high for the night)), tried salvia 3 times which hasn't gotten any further than stage...