Perspectives
Psychedelic Medicine: Will it lead to reform in Australia
"We’ll have legalised or at least decriminalised psychedelics in no time, right? Sorry to burst your bubble, but, no. The medical-psychedelic movement, or I should say, the medical-psychedelic-business movement in Australia may not deliver non-medical legalisation or even decriminalisation."
Little Saints: The Sacred Healing History of ‘Magic Mushrooms’
"In the modern West, mushrooms have been popularly viewed as a ‘recreational drug’ this finding may seem surprising. However, psilocybin mushrooms have a long and rich history of use as a sacred medicine. Hallucinogenic mushrooms have been used in indigenous healing ceremonies in Mesoamerica since at least the sixteenth century."
The Life/Integration Matrix: the challenges of psychedelic peak experience digestion in a modern existence
Andy C I’ve been spending a lot of time lately noting how the pace of life, the pace of MY life, makes me feel as though sometimes it speeds by like Wiley Coyote with barely a moment to stop and take in the face melting splendour of it all, before I’m off the cliff again […]
Just a Regular Mum… that Treated Her C-PTSD with Psychedelics…
These drugs are illegal, despite the benefits they’ve shown to have on treatment resistant mental health conditions such as mine.
To have those drugs was a big risk some might say.
But when you’re desperate, and the other choice is death, it’s a risk that I found was absolutely worth taking.
How Psychedelics Helped Me Heal My Childhood Trauma.
Despite the fear, why do I feel this undying urge to yell it from the tree tops to anyone that’ll listen. My heart races, my stomach hits the floor as the words tumble from my mouth and my voice shakes “I took LSD with my husband”.
I watch her face, she looks confused…“What’s that? Is that like Meth?” she quizzes me.