Depending on how we perceive the world and our beliefs, entheogens can be potential tools to aid in the treatment of mental illness, or compounds that help us explore ourselves, and to some, entheogens are tools to explore the realms of the spiritual world. Typically, these two insights rarely mix as the psychotomimetic community on the scientific and spiritual tend to split. However, this might be changing soon! The Beckley Foundation, alongside the Imperial College of London, the University of Sussex, the University of Oxford, and the University of California, brought us an interesting study that may connect how spiritual transcendent experiences, or 'peak experiences' in the psychonaut world, may predict positive results in mental health outcomes in therapy, such as reductions in depression and anxiety, and also reduced craving in substance abuse disorders. Learn more here!

Lately, an acronym has been around everyone's mouths, in some for its potential as a therapeutic tool, in others for the recent dilemma after the FDA denied its use as a tool for the treatment of PTSD. We are talking about MDMA. We have all heard about the story of Sasha Shulgin re-discovering MDMA and becoming coined as the 'Godfather' of MDMA by the media (which he publicly claimed to hate.) But did you know that at some point in history, MDMA had a natural precursor? A plant that goes under plenty of people's radars and suddenly became absent from psychedelic history after the mass destruction of specimens by the US government, leading to the endangerment of its species after MDMA became popular in nightclubs, this plant is Sassafras.

Stimulants are the most used compounds in the world. This statement may sound rather bold to many, considering how the media portrays the use and abuse of other substances. But by rethinking our routine, we tend to wake up and brush our teeth in the morning, followed by breakfast and coffee or tea Join us to find the secret chemical properties of coffee and tea and figure out that energy drinks may not be as harmful as they seem!