"It's like being part of a huge spiritual experience. When it hits you and you look around the room and realize that everyone is sharing it with you...that's what it means to me." With these words, a waifish university student summed up what it means to be in on one of Beirut's best-kept drug...

it is interesting to compare the views of Tim Leary, Aldous Huxley and Ken Kesey regarding the issue of who should be using entheogens in the society Huxley - ultra-elitest view, only creative and social-elites should use entheogens such as poets, writers, scientists, artists etc. Leary -...

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/jonathan_ott_fund.htm In his own words: "[My] home was completely burned, destroying everything that was most important: laboratory, hydroelectric system, custom-built and -designed electric motorcycle and, for the crowning touch, [the arsonist] tried to...

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In the Christmas day special episode of Psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the final installment of Stanislav Grof's seminar 'Psychospiritual death and rebirth, a visionary journey' from the World Psychedelic forum. Grof talks about Einstein's astrological transits and how they correspond to...

In this fortnight's installment of Psychonautica, Max Freakout first talks about the recent health scare over a toxic batch of 2cb, and talks about the natural/synthetic distinction. Next Max plays the 6th part of the Stanislav Grof seminar 'psychospiritual death and rebirth: a visionary...

In this week's installment of Psychonautica, Grof talks about verifiably authentic experiences of identifying with animals during LSD trips, the importance of accelerating through psychotic experiences instead of administering tranquilisers to suppress them, telepathic experiences in trip...

In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the first part of a day-long seminar by Stanislav Grof, from the world psychedelic forum, entitled 'psychospiritual death and rebirth, a visionary journey'. Grof talks about the meaning of the categories 'non-ordinary' and 'holotropic' states...

In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout interviews author, anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Rätsch, they talk about mythology, religion and altered state experiences, myth as a tool for understanding reality, the role of belief and the literal interpretation of Christian...

In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays a talk by Ralph Metzner from the World Psychedelic forum called 'Alchemical Divination - healing the past and visioning possible futures'. Metzner talks about the meaning of divination, obtaining knowledge from inner sources such as intuition...

In this episode of psychonautica Max Freakout interviews Jan Irvin, the host of the Gnostic media podcast and author of 'Astrotheology and shamanism' and 'The holy mushroom', Jan talks about the work of Jack Herer, the dispute between John Allegro and Gordon Wasson over the depiction of...

In this episode of psychonautica Max Freakout reads out a selection of listener emails, talking about psychedelic families, the ideas of Robert Anton Wilson about evolution and reality tunnels, Plato's allegory of the cave, psychedelic use in old age, Salvia Divinorum extraction, some Datura...

This episode of psychonautica features a conversation between Max Freakout and Alex Beiner, the author of forthcoming novel 'Beyond the Basin'. They talk about Ayahuasca ceremonies and shamanism, Alex's experiences on a recent trip to Peru for the shamanism conference with ayahuasca and San...

In this fortnight's installment of Psychonautica, Max Freakout plays a talk from the world psychedelic forum, by Allyson and Alex Grey, entitled 'psychedelic families, what do we tell the children?'. The Greys talk about children and entheogens, the american ideal 'happy family', the Osborne...

In this week's episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout talks about a forthcoming float-tank episode with fan5tastic, a Datura trip report and the effects of Datura, the origin of Pilsner beer, Plato's allegory of the cave and its psychedelic interpretation, Salvia Divinorum trips and shared...

In this fortnight's edition of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays a talk from the World Psychedelic forum by Dale Pendell called 'Psychedelics and Zen Buddhism, the search for a path', Dale Pendell talks about the connection between entheogen experiences and religious experience and the opinions...

In this week's episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout talks about 3 new psychedelic podcasts, shamanic freedom radio with Opaquelense and his interview with Rupert Sheldrake, Jan Irvin's interview with Stanislav Grof on his Gnostic media podcast, and the new podcast from the 2 zillion year old...

In this week's episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout first talks about the documentary about ayahuasca by the Dutch filmmaker Jan Kounen called 'other worlds', and about Dr Kary Mullis and the Nobel Prize he received for pioneering work in molecular biology, which he attributed to insights...

In this week's episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays a talk by Michael Winkleman from the world psychedelic forum called 'Psychedelics and human evolution, a view from evolutionary psychology'. Michael Winkleman talks about the 'drug paradox' and evolutionary adaptations of humans to...

In this episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays a talk by Thomas Roberts called 'New Horizons; potential benefits of psychedelics for humanity'. Thomas Roberts talks about the relationships between programs and computers, mind-body states and minds,the 'single state fallacy' of modern...