Psychedelic therapy

JRT a new Lysergamide in the Horizon?

By altering the position of two atoms in the molecular structure of LSD, a team at UC Davis created the new compound named JRT and published the discovery on April 14th, five days before Bicycle Day.

The subtle change preserved the ability of the drug to stimulate brain cell growth and repair damaged neural connections, key features in treating cognitive decline while minimizing the psychedelic effects.

When given to mice, JRT has powerful neuroplastic effects and improved measures of the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia without showing behaviors and gene expression associated with psychosis.

“The development of JRT emphasizes that we can use psychedelics like LSD as starting points to make better medicines. We may be able to create medications that can be used in patient populations where psychedelic use is precluded.” – David Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics and professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular medicine at UC Davis.

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Exploring The Infinity Container with Dr. Victoria Sterkin

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Is psychedelic integration worth it?
To get to the depths of this discussion, we spoke to Victoria Sterkin, PhD, founder of the integration platform The Infinity Container .

We discuss the aims of the project, what frameworks provide the best healing, the importance of revisiting a psychedelic experience, the future of psychedelic therapy, and much more!

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Psychedelic Individualism, a shift on purpose

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Recently, there was a shift in Entheogens.

A shift in our purpose.

Entheogens once used to unite the community and are now met with individualism. This shift is nothing but a representation of our society.

We are beginning to absolve the sense of community and become focused on ourselves. Losing communion, compassion, love, and respect for others.

This might be an inevitable step for the evolutionary step, the German band Kraftwerk named Mensch-Maschine (Man-Machine).

Yet, Entheogens can still be the turning point for us to become a community once again.

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LSD and the Alchemical Opus of Humanity

Neeshee Pandit

The world of hallucinogens has various coincidences, one of them being the accidental synthesis of a compound that would alter the consciousness of thousands of people until today.

We are talking about Hofmann’s ‘Problem Child’ LSD.

Join us on a ride about consciousness, medicine, psychology, and astrology with this amazing guest post by Neeshee Pandit.

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Aldous Huxley’s Influence on Psychedelic Culture

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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?

Psychedelia: A quest for the unknown

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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?

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Novel concept of Entheogenic Synergy

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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.

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Are psychedelics suitable for me?

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Since the commercialization of legal psychedelic products, plenty of comments about psychedelics being miracle drugs that can cure mental illnesses in one use began to come to the surface, but are psychedelics really miracle drugs, and most importantly, how do I know if psychedelics are suitable for me? Figure out the answers to these questions here!

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One step closer to saving a species!

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In the last five years, two words have spread like wildfire, “Toad Medicine” (5-MeO-DMT) is in the mouths of celebrities, herpetologists, psychonauts, and curious people. This curiosity narrowed Incilius Alvarius to endangerment due to poaching and increased movement on the Sonoran roads. Fortunately, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital and Columbia University greeted us with another synthetic alternative to stop harming the toads 4-F,5-MeO-PyrT.

Could this be a queue to stop seeing this toad as a “medicine” and see it as a living species once again and stop abusing it for personal benefit?

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What is shadow work?

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In the intricate landscape of human psychology, the concept of the shadow self, as elucidated by Carl Jung, represents the latent and often repressed aspects of our personality. Emerging research suggests that psychedelics, particularly empathogens-entactogens such as MDMA and 2C-B, may serve as catalysts for unveiling these hidden dimensions.

Through controlled clinical settings and guided therapy, individuals undergoing psychedelic experiences have reported profound insights into their shadow selves, leading to enhanced self-awareness and psychological integration.

Join us in examining personal anecdotes, confronting the intersection of untreated shadow manifestations and the transformative potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy.

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