{"id":3892,"date":"2025-12-01T06:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:35:01","slug":"goodnews-december-25-good-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2025\/12\/01\/goodnews-december-25-good-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"goodnews december 25 \u2013 good to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/space\/image-milky-way-galaxy-radio-waves?utm_source=beehiiv&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=futurism-newsletter\">Stunning<\/a><br \/>\nscience | Futurism | 1 November<br \/>\nOur galaxy shown as radio waves<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2025\/11\/ketamine-continues-to-fail-to-beat-active-placebo-for-depression\/?mc_cid=5cb53a358a\">Ketamine<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Mad in America | 3 November<br \/>\nActive placebo does better in studies than the hypnotic drug<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psychedelicalpha.com\/news\/compass-pathways-accelerates-psilocybin-launch-timeline-by-9-12-months\">Faster<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 4 November<br \/>\nCompass Pathway accelerates psilocybin launch timeline by 9-12 months<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/childrens-books-feature-tidy-nuclear-families-but-the-animal-kingdom-tells-a-different-story-265532?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%206%202025%20-%203573136446&#038;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%206%202025%20-%203573136446+CID_cb245f1a516e3ca68e8addda2c981fbb&#038;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&#038;utm_term=Childrens%20books%20feature%20tidy%20nuclear%20families%20%20but%20the%20animal%20kingdom%20tells%20a%20different%20story\">Mating<\/a><br \/>\nnature | The Conversation | 5 November<br \/>\nWhat family really looks like in the animal kingdom\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepsychedelicblog.substack.com\/p\/the-cult-of-constant-healing?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=652467&#038;post_id=177668419&#038;utm_campaign=email-post-title&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;r=4uect&#038;triedRedirect=true&#038;utm_medium=email\">More<\/a><br \/>\nculture | The Psychedelic Blog | 7 November<br \/>\nThe cult of constant healing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.doubleblindmag.com\/p\/can-psychedelics-offer-hope-for-treating-long-covid?utm_source=beehiivemail&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=can-psychedelics-offer-hope-for-treating-long-covid&#038;last_resource_guid=Post%3A1f745b2f-dd9e-4be0-ae0b-c167eebf9bb1\">Long Covid<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | DoubleBlind\u00a0| 7 November<br \/>\nIs there any evidence that psychedelics may help?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcn.org\/issues\/57-11\/heavy-metal-is-healing-teens-on-the-blackfeet-nation\/?utm_source=wcn1&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=2025-11-07-Newsletter\">Healing<\/a><br \/>\nculture | High Country News | 7 November<br \/>\nBlackfeet Nation teens experience the blessings of Heavy Metal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psychedelichealth.co.uk\/2025\/11\/07\/new-netflix-documentary-on-ibogaine-premieres-as-ambio-launches-europes-first-physician-led-ibogaine-facility\/?utm_medium=email&#038;_hsmi=121833453&#038;utm_content=121833453&#038;utm_source=hs_email\">Ibogaine<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Psychedelic Health | 7 November<br \/>\nNetflix premieres new documentary on Ibogaine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.doubleblindmag.com\/p\/did-you-hear-a-new-series-on-mkultra-is-coming-to-hbo?utm_source=beehiivemail&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=did-you-hear-a-new-series-on-mkultra-is-coming-to-hbo\">On HBO<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | DoubleBlind | 10 November<br \/>\nThe workings of MK-Ultra, soon coming to a screen near you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/psychedelics-might-help-terminal-patients-find-peace-265915?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2017%202025%20-%203583336575&#038;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2017%202025%20-%203583336575+CID_6119c596205f54d161660842007e7f9b&#038;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&#038;utm_term=Psychedelics%20might%20help%20terminal%20patients%20find%20peace\">Palliative care<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | The Conversation | 14 November!<br \/>\nPsychedelics, terminal patients, and the easing of fears<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessofcannabis.com\/germany-medical-cannabis-imports-surge-a-further-19-but-are-looming-curbs-actually-boosting-demand\/\">A surge in prescriptions<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Business of Cannabis | 14 November!<br \/>\nGerman medicinal cannabis use up a further 9%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/15\/opinion\/fentanyl-trump-drug-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k8.qLB4.jgBALmIn3PMM&#038;smid=url-share\">Drug use In the USA<\/a>psychoactive | The New York Times | 15 November<br \/>\nA historical perspective<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seeingwhatisthere.substack.com\/p\/mdma-and-recovered-memory?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=252267&#038;post_id=179132128&#038;utm_campaign=email-post-title&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;r=4uect&#038;triedRedirect=true&#038;utm_medium=email\">MDMA<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Seeing What There Is | 17 November<br \/>\nDoes it excavate trauma, or create false memories?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hls.harvard.edu\/today\/psychedelics-real-risk-or-human-right\/\">Debate<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Harvard Law Today | 18\u00a0November<br \/>\nAre psychedelics a risk or a human right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/sophisticated-bronze-age-city-unearthed-in-kazakhstan-transforms-our-understanding-of-steppe-societies?utm_term=A6762672-EBE8-41F9-96F5-6AB097337CE2&#038;lrh=ff0d32275af49102b3eef6f6a1c5f5404481ac1b633d38ef2ba618bfce72add6&#038;utm_campaign=368B3745-DDE0-4A69-A2E8-62503D85375D&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=83624D4D-14AE-4278-9D3D-A03C2E7EDF67&#038;utm_source=SmartBrief\">A new view of life in the steppe<\/a>culture | Live Science | 18 November<br \/>\nArchaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the &#8220;City of Seven Ravines,&#8221; a vast Bronze Age &#8220;proto-city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themicrodose.substack.com\/p\/psychedelics-for-anorexia?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=371945&#038;post_id=179398383&#038;utm_campaign=email-post-title&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;r=4uect&#038;triedRedirect=true&#038;utm_medium=email\">Eating disorders<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive\u00a0 | The Microdose | 19 November<br \/>\nNew psychedelics research on notoriously hard to treat disorders\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalcbc.com\/german-medical-cannabis-petition-crosses-58k-signatures\/\">Cannabis<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | ICBC | 21 November<br \/>\nGermans gather 58\u2019000 signatures against import restriction\u00a0 for medicinal use<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecstaticintegration.org\/p\/mk-ultra-didnt-end-it-was-privatized?utm_campaign=email-post&#038;r=4uect&#038;utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\">MK-Ultra<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Ecstatic Ingegration | 21 November<br \/>\nExperiments in mind control didn\u2019t end but was privatised instead<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.compactmag.com\/article\/psychedelics-made-me-christian\/\">Faith<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Compact Magazine | 21 November<br \/>\nWith psychedelics back into the arms of the church<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/the-many-realities-of-ayahuasca-from-rural-peru-to-urban-china?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&#038;utm_campaign=e5c2a4666a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_25&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72925636\">Wondreous brew<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | Aeon | 26 November<br \/>\nThe many realities of ayahuasca<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psyche.co\/ideas\/reality-shifting-opens-portals-to-the-weirdness-of-our-world?utm_source=Psyche+Magazine&#038;utm_campaign=e8339565ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_28&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_-8e23a7006c-71973384\">Reality shifting<\/a>science | Psyche | 28 November<br \/>\nIs it a shared delusion? Does it have merit?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.doubleblindmag.com\/p\/people-are-tripping-on-100-grams-of-mushrooms-on-ig?utm_source=beehiivemail&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=people-are-tripping-on-100-grams-of-mushrooms-on-ig\">100 grams of mushrooms<\/a>psychoactive | DoubleBlind | 28 November<br \/>\nPeople are taking their trips to social media<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepsychedelicblog.substack.com\/p\/why-psychedelic-gratitude-hits-different?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=652467&#038;post_id=179596943&#038;utm_campaign=email-post-title&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;r=4uect&#038;triedRedirect=true&#038;utm_medium=email\">Gratitude<\/a><br \/>\npsychoactive | The Psychedelic Blog | 28 November<br \/>\nWhy the psychedelic kind is different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning science | Futurism | 1 November Our galaxy shown as radio waves Ketamine psychoactive | Mad in America | 3 November Active placebo does better in studies than the hypnotic drug Faster psychoactive | Psychedelic Alpha | 4 November Compass Pathway accelerates psilocybin launch timeline by 9-12 months Mating nature | The Conversation |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2025\/12\/01\/goodnews-december-25-good-to-know\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}