A team of archaeologists from the United States and Mexico have detected mixtures of tobacco and a non-tobacco plant called the Mexican marigold (Tagetes lucida) in residues taken from a collection of 14 pre-Columbian Maya bottle-shaped containers known as flasks. The discovery paints a clearer picture of ancient Maya drug […]
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It’s probably to horror’s general discredit that ‘rape revenge’ is considered a legit subgenre, but it is, and it’s one that’s mature enough to have ‘classics’, among them Straw Dogs (1971), Last House On The Left (1972) and I Spit On Your Grave (1978). It has also recently enjoyed a […]
According to a 2019 paper titled Toxicology in Antiquity (Second Edition) , almost all of the Mystery Religions and cults of the ancient world “frequently, if not always, employed the use of psychoactive drugs or entheogens to induce altered states of consciousness.” An example was presented in a National Geographic when […]
DBMR has added a new report titled Global Psychedelic Drugs Market with analysis provides the insights which bring marketplace clearly into the focus and thus help organizations make better decisions. This Global Psychedelic Drugs Market research report understands the current and future of the market in both developed and emerging […]
William Menech believes he has discovered a cure for COVID-19. It’s a fairly simple mixture of three herbs he learned about while studying Amazonian plant medicine and shamanism over the last two decades. “Some of them are available right off the shelf at health food stores” across the world, he […]
Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Before social distancing, it was easy to catch a glimpse of someone’s text messages while waiting on a crowded subway platform or standing in line; allowing your eyes to linger a second longer than you should. Photographer Jeff Mermelstein has used this common impulse to […]
Curious about the powers of ayahuasca but don’t fancy trekking into the foothills of the Peruvian Amazon, vomiting for hours on end, and reliving every single painful memory stored in the depths of your unconscious? The hallucinatory delights of Ken Russell’s sci-fi-horror Altered States (released 40 years ago on December […]
December 23, 2020 7 min read This story originally appeared on Lucid News The rock star candidly revealed in a recent interview that she loves ayahuasca, and found it life-changing. “Ayahuasca was definitely one of my favorite drugs I’ve ever done. When I did it, I asked everyone else in […]
I am deep in the Amazon rainforest, anxiously losing my mind as the world begins to disintegrate. Around me, all sense of distance is wrapping itself up like spatial origami, slowly shrinking until an entire dimension has disappeared. A moment ago, I was surrounded by 200 people dressed in white […]
