Aldous Huxley is one of the many authors when we want to mention the most renowned authors. Many people love his unique writing style and philosophy, including Alexander Shulgin, Terence McKenna, and several other scientific researchers who often mentioned his name and works. But exactly what attracts the hallucinogen community to him? Read more here!

This week, we talked with Michael from Laguna Meth. After his first experience with a Bart Simpson tab, his way of viewing the world switched, and so did his stance on these compounds. What he thought were substances for the weak changed his life by allowing him to see the facade forced into his mind by the media and schools since birth and pursue something more powerful. Music. Read more here!

If you are like me, someone who spends time on social media and watches countless reels and TikToks, you've likely come across this 'new' wonder ethnobotanical Kava-Kava. Influencers are advertising the brew as an alternative to pharmaceutical analgesics and anxiety medication. So, we considered discussing what Kava is and whether it's suitable for you or not!

For the past year, I've been covering the stories of people in this realm about how they entered the community and what led them to encounter these compounds. However, I've never told my story of how these compounds entered my life. I found this Halloween to be something fitting, considering this story isn't what you'd read to your kids at night despite the happy ending. In hopes of switching some opinions in regard to what the human mind can bring to you and how sometimes these compounds can be an escape from what we believe to be a living hell.

What we thought to be a toad life-changing trip might be more than that, a new study claims! For quite some time, the psychonaut community has focused on inducing intense mystical experiences with Bufo Alvarius (Incilius Alvarius), capable of life-changing experiences and altering how we perceive life. However, new research proves that something else is happening to our brains while such experiences occur within our minds!

Join us this week to read a wonderful conversation with Terence McKenna. “Uh, it's actually UnTerry McCanny and The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo.” We spoke about art, philosophy, puppetry, teaching about hallucinogens humorously, the influence of Terence McKenna in his life, McKenna Monday at Psychedelic Assembly's library in Manhattan (P.S. They have pizza), the importance of philosophy in the psychedelic space, and what UnTerry McCanny would ask Terence if they could communicate. We also discussed the possibility of bringing new puppets to life! We found that Michaelangelo is currently accepting donations for a William Burroughs puppet! (It's just a secret between us, but I must say that the impersonation is immaculate!)

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!

Recently, something has become a martyr in my head, and I think many people have this same question. Why do people keep on using psychedelics? Could it be that what we seek in psychedelic experiences represents the epitome of human existence as we try to satisfy our rooted curiosity about the unknown and could be the reasoning behind why people continuously explore the realms of consciousness and, consequently, psychedelics?

Following our Lion's Mane chocolate recipe, we decided to bring you a premium way to make Lion's Mane gummies! (But allow your mind to flow) We hope you've enjoyed this Myconomics segment and keep following your fungal adventures. As always, sending love! .

Mushroom edibles just became legal in Oregon, as regulators gave the state's first license of psilocybin edibles to Spiritus Oregon. With this first officialization of a company, we'll likely see the psilocybin-containing chocolate business grow unmeasurably in the next few years for both therapeutic and recreational use. Unfortunately, it isn't all good news. When mentioning mushroom chocolates, typically, just like any edible product, these bars are produced in mass, and the fungi content becomes spread unevenly, making it pretty much impossible to know the dosage we are taking per square. Another issue is that growers often sift out lower-quality mushrooms to make these chocolates, reserving the better mushrooms for sale, or sometimes, the problem is present in the quality of the chocolate used. We will teach you various techniques to avoid the issues mentioned previously and create gourmet chocolate using Lion's Mane like a true chocolatier (but allow your imagination to run wild).

Psychonauts often worry about their brain, whether because of a bad experience. We might feel our brain becomes less responsive or that something doesn't feel right post-trip, or we can have an underlying condition. The current forms of brain scans are limiting and expensive. For this reason, plenty of psychedelic interaction with the brain and their therapeutic effects remains quite a mystery. However, this might be about to change! Learn more about how CaST might be changing the way we study psychedelics with us.

Following up on last week's article, we clear up what we coined as Entheogenic Synergy, which bifurcates into Recreational Synergy and Therapeutic Synergy, concepts intended to raise awareness of anthropological values, mu beliefs, and elements susceptible to changing our biochemistry, microbiota, neurochemistry, and the way we think, such as music, hearing other experiences, expectations, and the journey to our destination, as well as conversations we have about the experience, being present to a new environment and language, learning to adapt, changing our neuroplasticity and thermoregulation are explored as equally as the psychedelic experience, and even further, be included in the psychedelic experience in the future research. 

The entourage effect is a phenomenon that has been gaining traction in psychedelic research. What at first was thought to be a phenomenon observed solemnly in the cannabis community and the entourage effect between THC and other phytocannabinoids turns out to be much more extensive than what we thought to be and to influence several species such as the Psilocybe genus. One specific study highlighted the significance of this phenomenon by demonstrating the superior therapeutic accuracy of psilocybin extracts compared to synthetic psilocybin. However, there is a species that hasn't been spoken of enough when mentioning the entourage effect. Lophophora Williamsii (Peyote). Join us and understand the entourage effect in Peyote!