DMT and the Pineal: Fact or Fiction?

DMT and the Pineal: Fact or Fiction?
A well-known factoid bandied about by psychedelic drug geeks is the idea that DMT, or some other psychoactive tryptamine, is produced by the pineal gland. When did this idea originate? And is it actually true? By John Hanna for Erowid.org During his talk “Psychoactive Drugs Throughout Human History”...
June 8th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More

Have we cracked the DMT Puzzle?

Have we cracked the DMT Puzzle?
James Kent attempts to tie a knot in the meme of autonomous elves and other DMT entities. “Snippets of the Psyche” revealed in DMT space, by James Kent The comments in this article are adapted from Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason, by James Kent. The following...
April 7th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More

Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics

Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics
Evolver.net, MAPS, the Beckley Foundation, and Brainwaving present Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics For millennia, cultures around the world expanded minds and visions with “teacher plants” – what we commonly know today as psychedelics. The widespread popularity of LSD during the 1960s...
February 10th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More

Psychedelic drugs could heal thousands

Psychedelic drugs could heal thousands
There is a horrible sense of meaninglessness and chaos that comes from the extreme loneliness of being cut off. Trauma, whether sustained in the family, or in the military during combat, renders millions feeling unsafe, insecure, mistrustful, and in the end isolated, lonely and desperate. Judith Lewis...
January 20th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More

Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution

Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution
Brainwaving is delighted to introduce the first in a series of essays by Prof. Carl Ruck, best known for his work in mythology and religion on the sacred role of entheogens, or psychoactive plants that induce an altered state of consciousness, as used in religious or shamanistic rituals. His focus has...
January 18th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More

Enter the Jaguar

Enter the Jaguar
The monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar, ten thousand feet up in the Cordillera Blanca of the Peruvian Andes, are, officially, a mystery. The vast, ruined granite and sandstone structures – cyclopean walls, huge sunken plazas and step pyramids – date from around 1000BC but, although they...
December 15th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More

Dannion Brinkley – Prophet or Profiteer?

Dannion Brinkley – Prophet or Profiteer?
In 1975, during a thunderstorm, Dannion Brinkley was talking on the telephone when a bolt of lightning hit the phone line, sending thousands of volts into his head and down through his body. Brinkley was thrown across the room, and later reported seeing his lifeless body spread prone, as his then-girlfriend...
December 10th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More

Huxley on Drugs and Creativity

Huxley on Drugs and Creativity
Aldous Huxley interviewed for The Paris Review (1960), reprinted in Moksha: Aldous Huxley’s Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, edited by Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer (Park Street Press, 1999) Interviewers: Do you see any relation between the creative process...
November 30th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More

LSD and the Evolution of Consciousness

LSD and the Evolution of Consciousness
This essay, which tells the story of the inventor of LSD and his ‘problem child’s’ turbulent history, is taken from the soon-to-be published ‘Hofmann’s Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis’. It is brainwaving.com’s first exclusive, and written by co-founder Amanda...
October 29th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More

Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstacy

Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstacy
The Guardian newspaper reported to day on the growing number of people taking psychedelic drugs to help them cope with conditions such as chronic anxiety attacks, and the role The Beckley Foundation has played in this development. The fear that the growing use of LSD as a recreational drug in the 1960s,...
October 24th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More
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