PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR ADOLESCENTS, CHildren AND ADULTS
In the second wave of psychedelic research, there are multiple trials taking place across the world.
This includes looking into their potential use to treat end-of-life anxiety and depression in the terminally ill (at the US’s John Hopkins University and NYU), for smoking cessation, alcoholism, anorexia, OCD, asthma, longevity and pain syndromes, as well as seven separate trials worldwide into the use of psilocybin to treat depression.
Read moreProfessor Ribas-Casasayas discusses perspectives on psychedelics from Latin American.
Read moreInterestingly, they were extracting it from a plant called jurema-preta (Mimosa tenuiflora), rather than the DMT found in chacruna used in ayahuasca.
Read moren this episode of Brainforest Café, dive deep into the profound mystery of DMT, exploring why this simple molecule has such astonishing effects on the human mind.
Meditation helps us connect with and support others, too!
Read moreSuffering tells us what’s really important to us, and our approach to it tells us what we’re really made of. Check out this book review for “The Importance of Suffering”.
Read moreCan trauma help you grow? This author reflects on his brother’s murder and how his family found the will to survive, and found meaning.
Read moreMurkiness and wishful thinking about an emerging scientific subject can be spun into certainty.
The vagus nerve is being hyped up by online influencers, making it seem easy to treat and fix a slew of health issues. What’s fact and fiction?
Read moreNina is from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, Ecuador, and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing cultural appropriation, environmental destruction and marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing
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