february 2024 – good to know

Research
psychoactive | Marijuana Moment | 1 January
US governments nearly doubles quota for THC, Psilocybin and DMT production

New treatment
psychoactive | Naturemedecine | 5 January
Magnesium–ibogaine therapy in veterans with traumatic brain injuries

Heartbeat
psychoactive | Big Think | 5 January
Substance effects are related to cardiac rhythm

Amsterdam
psychoactive | The Guardian | 5 January
Global illegal drugs trade asks for international solutions

Differences
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 8 January
How women react to psychoactive substances and other gender-related issues

Clubs and drugs
psychoactive | The Microdose | 8 January
5 questions for epidemiologist Joseph Palamar

Moxy
psychoactive | Double Blind | 8 January
Discovering a –relatively– new drug

Panacea
psychoactive | Vox | 10 January
Psychedelics may hold the general key to disease

Ancient cluster
science | The Byte | 11 Januar
Hubble detects strongest radio signal ever

Cannabis
psychoactive | New York Times | 12 January
Federal scientists recommend easing restrictions on marijuana

True crime
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 16 January
The death of the ketamine priestess

More power
nature | Interesting Engineering | 18 January
Small artificial plants use wind and rain to generate clean energy

Mature subjects
psychoactive |  Sage | 19 January
Older adults are often missing in psychedelic-assisted therapy trials

Back to the roots
psychoactive | The New Yorker | 22 January
When America first dropped acid

Primer
psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 24 January
EU grants € 6.500,000 for multi-site psilocybin study in palliative patients

Integration
psychoactive | Ecstatic Integration | 25 January
Psychedelic therapy & the metaphysical menu

Recyclable 
culture | Reasons to be cheerful | 26 January
Innovative 3D-printed homes for the homeless

Older and older
culture | Live Science | 29 January
70’000 year-old human footprints found on a Moroccan beach.

december 2023 – go to know

Dependency
psychoactive | Lucid News | 1 November
Kentucky’s plans for ibogaine

Under water
eco |  Hakai Magazine | 1 November
Capturing carbon with seaweed

Damaging
psychoactive | Double Blind | 2 November
War on drugs harms the environment

Traditional
psychoactive | MAPS Bulletin | 3 November
Women and peyote in the Indigenous world

Samadhi
psychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 3 November
A potent mix of DMT and MAOIs

Going south
nature | Live Science | 5 November
Auroras and other light phenomena

Ketamine
psychoactive | Double Blind | 7 November
Falling into a K-hole

Climate havens
eco | National Geographic | 13 November
What makes these cities different from others

Chronic disease
psychoactive | Psychological Science | 13 November
Redefining addiction to ease the stigma

The Chalice
psychoactive | Lucid News | 18 November
Beyond the psychedelic renaissance in Berkeley

Shrooms
psychoactive | Reality Sandwich | 19 November
A short and comprehensive guide

culture | Science Daily | 20 November
Prehistorically better suited than men

Convince me!
culture | RT | 27 November
The US word of the year

Little helpers
science |  High Times | 27 November
Farmer in trouble for using ducks to fertilize his field

Misnomer
culture | IFL Science | 28 November
How dark were the dark ages?

december 2023 – good to go

@ Cabaret Voltaire
The Psychedelic Salon Zürich
Beat Bächi: Transubstantiations. LSD and the Flesh of the Aztec Gods.  Dr. Bächi, a historian, knows the Albert Hofmann Archive in Bern intimately and is currently researching farm animals in the Anthropocene at the University of Zurich. He will take us on a journey through southern Mexico, tracing the unlikely paths that enabled LSD to transform itself from a psycho-pharmaceutical substance into a counterculture icon. His book LSD auf dem Land. Produktion und kollektive Wirkung psychotroper Stoffe (“LSD in the Country. The Production and Collective Impact of Psychotropic Substances”) is only available in German for now (Konstanz University Press 2020).
Zürich | Cabaret Voltaire | Spiegelgasse 1 | 14 December | 18 – 21 h

@ gaiamedia lounge
The Psychedelic Salon Basel
Claude Weill: A Return Ticket to Elysium – Psychedelics in the Second Half of Life
Claude is the author of Elysium hin und zurück (“A return ticket to Elysium”). The nine people portrayed in his book are all in the second half of their lives, representing a wide variety of backgrounds, working in various professions or being already retired. For them, the regular or occasional use of mind-altering substances represents an access to extraordinary experiences of spiritual-mystical dimensions. This is the fitting topic of our December Salon.
Basel | gaiamedia lounge | Hochstrasse 70 | 21 December | 6-9 pm

Related
Horizons Northwest
Horizons Northwest is the largest psychedelic learning and community event in the Pacific Northwest region.
Portland | OR |  Portland Art Museum | 1-3 December 2023 

The 2023 Holberg Debate: ‘Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?’
This year’s Holberg Debate features Tanya Luhrmann,  Anil Seth and Rupert Sheldrake.
Livestream & YouTube | Saturday, 2 December, 2023., 15:00 to 17:45 | CET (09:00 – 11:45 am | EST)

1er Simposio Psiconautica
With Jonathan Ott, Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Luis Eduardo Luna, Javier Echeverria, Mónica Gagliano and many others
Conguillo, Chile | Parque National | 11-16 December

november 2023 – good to read

The History of MDMA

Torsten Passie
As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Here, Torsten Passie aims to explore a deeper and more differentiated understanding of MDMA and its history. He has conducted personal interviews with most of the people significant in the history of MDMA and provides a lot of new material to present the first comprehensive overview of the history of MDMA in Europe and the U.S.
Oxford University Press

God on Psychedelics. Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-Time Religion

Don Lattin
God on Psychedelics takes the reader on a magical mystery tour across the changing religious landscape, exploring a new kind of trinity that blends psychedelic insight, psychological healing and spiritual revival. Why do relatively few people in the burgeoning psychedelic renaissance connect chemically induced mystical states with their own religious traditions? Can sacred plant medicines be a source of renewal for Christians, Jews and other people of faith?
Apocryphile Press

Chuck Berry. An American Life

RJ Smith
Much of his life is known and has been described in the hundreds of tributes that marked his passing, yet the secretive complexity that encapsulated his life and underscored his music was never explored. Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll and author of classics like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybllene,” “You Never Can Tell,” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” finds himself portrayed as of one of the great American artists, entertainers, guitarists, and lyricists of the 20th century.
Hachette Books

Psychedelic Integration. Psychotherapy for Non- Ordinary States of Consciousness

Michael B. Aixala
What began as an attempt to help others became a work that traces the evolution of psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration research from the 1960s to the present moment, explains therapeutic techniques and outlines a clinician’s real-world observations on the deep work of healing. For practitioners, their patients, and those seeking integration as a tool for self and collective discovery.
Ingram Publishers Services

Hysteric: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions

Pragya Agarwal
How we interpret emotions and act on them has been heavily gendered, as far back as Ancient Greek and Roman times, and – despite improvements in societal equality – continues to be today. Dr Pragya Agarwal examines the impact this has on men and women – especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history – and imagines how a future with liberated emotions might look.
Canongate Books

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