https://psychedelicmentalhealth.net/spotlight-newscientist-how-ketamine-assisted-psychotherapy-changed-my-life-2025/ Spotlight: NewScientist: "How Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Changed My Life" (2025) #ketamine #psychotherapy #ketaminetherapy #ketamineassistedpsychotherapy #psychedelics #psychedelictherapy #psychedelicassistedpsychotherapy #psychedelic #mentalhealth from a rave drug to a potentially groundbreaking mental health therapy, used to assist talking therapy sessions, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, now clinically available, bolstered by impressive clinical trial results

Emerging Viral Infections (ZIKV, SARS-CoV-2, and MPXV) and Depression: Ketamine and (S, R)-Ketamine as Promising Antidepressants (Cao, et al, 2025) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40205087/ #depression #covid #mpox #zika #ketamine #ketaminetherapy #ketamineassistedtherapy #ketamineassistedpsychotherapy #neuroscience #brains #mentalhealth #virus #psychedelics

Here's the official info on the new Bachelor of Science program in Psychedelic Studies that I helped to create (and will be teaching in) at California Institute of Integral Studies.

#psychedelics #psychology #consciousness #cognition #academia #education #therapy #mind #psychedelicresearch

https://www.ciis.edu/academics/continuing-undergraduate-programs/bachelor-science-psychedelic-studies

Article in the SF Chronicle about the new Bachelor of Science program in Psychedelic Studies launching this fall at California Institute of Integral Studies.

I helped to create the program and I'll be part of the faculty.

#psychedelics #psychology #consciousness #cognition #mind #academia

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/california-institute-integral-studies-psychedelic-20238857.php

The next era of #psychedelics may be precision-designed states of #consciousness

https://www.freethink.com/biotech/ai-psychedelics-mindstate

48 years after Playboy published my article on future highs:

"Mindstate Design Labs is using #AI to help map how #psychedelics produce specific changes in #consciousness — and how to replicate them with precision."

http://rheingold.com/texts/ShulginPlayboy-short.pdf

Ketamine as part of multi-modal analgesia may reduce #opioid requirements following cardiac surgery: a retrospective observational cohort study (Hall, et al, 2025) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40181432/ #ketamine #ketaminesafety #cardiacicu #painmanagement #cardiaccare Note - ketamine found safe to use post heart surgery for pain management with no cases of respiratory depression or mortalities. #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #harmreduction #drugsafety

Mindstate Design Labs is using #AI to help map how #psychedelics produce specific changes in #consciousness — and how to replicate them with precision. The company’s approach combines a mild psychedelic with other compounds

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/ai-psychedelics-mindstate/

He's back!

Saugat Bolakhe is rejoining us as one of ten Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellows. He will be reporting about the mystic and cult following surrounding mad honey, an unregulated psychedelic harvested from the Himalayan cliffs of Nepal and promoted by "podcast bros" such as Joe Rogan.

Learn more: https://fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/2025-fellows/

In a few weeks I will be unavailable for appointments and other frivolities for a day.
Or two.

#psychedelics #lsd #bicycleday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Day_(psychedelic_holiday)

Have you explored psychedelics as a tool for self-healing or personal growth?

I want my feed to be more focused on topics like Anarchism, Syndicalism, Psychedelics, Buddhism, Linux, and LGBTQIA. To do this, I'm going to unfollow some people so my feed aligns better with my interests and values.

No hard feelings to anyone, except for fascist scums, I'll block them right away.

It's like #FollowFriday, so if you want to support me, boost this post!

This routine is mwah.

Perfect three act structure with a strong arc... And the subject matter...
https://youtu.be/RL66ZiQPuuY?si=l7CzZ83tj1gkV52K

#DMT #StandupComedy #Comedy #PaulSmith
#Psychedelics

#psychedelics #shrooms #Colorado

"The Colorado psychedelic mushroom experiment has arrived

The first licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms have been issued.

'Magic' mushrooms grow in popularity nationwideWith states like Colorado and Oregon legalizing therapeutic psilocybin use, our panel examines how and why people are indulging in the psychedelic.

Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state's first 'healing centers,' where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer.

The dawn of state-regulated psychedelic mushrooms has arrived in Colorado, nearly two years since Oregon began offering them. The mushrooms are a Schedule I drug and illegal under federal law except for clinical research. But more than a dozen cities nationwide have deprioritized or decriminalized them in the past five years, and many eyes are turned toward Oregon's and Colorado's state-regulated programs."

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/colorado-psychedelic-mushroom-experiment-arrived/story?id=120109227

Use of ketamine for reversing acute depression in a critically ill pretransplant patient (Shapiro, et al, 2025) #ketamine #psychedelic #psychedelics #depression #deathanxiety Note: Ketamine safe enough to administer to a patient in ICU with ischemic cardiomyopathy. #ketaminesafety

I'll be at Breaking Convention - https://breakingconvention.co.uk

A multi-disciplinary conference offering the latest ground-breaking research and insights into psychedelics
17 - 19 April 2025, Exeter UK

Who else is going?
Get in touch if you'll be there and want to meet! I love to chat with new people