Looking into the wellness landscape, it’s obvious: microdosing is not a trend. The rise in popularity these past few years is a response to a society running on burnout, numbing, and pharmaceutical dead-ends. While macrodosing mushrooms has served human consciousness for thousands of years, not everyone is ready to deep-dive headfirst into their subconscious, or
It’s golden hour on day two of the festival. You and your crew are sprawled out half naked and barefoot, a tangle of limbs and giggles, on a sun-warmed tapestry. Someone’s braiding hair. Someone’s snacking on berries. One friend is blissfully passed out in the sun, a half-smile stretched across their lips, two more are
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How does eating magic mushrooms make you see that stuff? First of all: yes, of course, we know it’s psilocybin. Pretty much anyone interested in magic mushrooms understands that the “magic” part comes courtesy of our favourite fungus’s psychoactive guts. All the giggles, tingles, and visuals we enjoy, thanks to a handful of trippy molecules.
How magic mushrooms can motivate action and reduce anxiety in the age of climate change What draws people to psilocybin? A lot of us would say it’s the way it quiets your ego and tunes you into the natural world. It roots you in the present moment. It anchors you in the immediate world so
Joe Roberts, AKA the artist LSDworldpeace, proceeds without expectations. Rather than mark any particular destination for a painting, he walks in blind, opens his mind to whatever might surface, and finds his way as he goes. Just like a good trip. The results are surreal tableaus that touch on still life and landscape and smash
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Few decades have produced a signature visual style as iconic as the 1960s did with psychedelic art. Just a glance at the eye-aching pleasure of an iconic psych album cover or gig poster can snap the viewer to the Summer of Love in San Francisco. While psychedelia drew on past forms like Art Nouveau, Surrealism,
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As usual, animals showed us the way. Humans have long loved to use natural substances to alter their perceptions. Whether it’s as simple and fleeting as the headrush of tobacco or the heady warmth of a strong drink, or as intense and profound as ayahuasca or peyote, we’ll travel great distances and endure considerable discomfort
The relationship between music and psychedelics is intrinsic. Music, more than basically any other stimuli you could think of, triggers something unique in our brains that only becomes elevated under the influence of psychedelic. Sound merges with sight and touch, opening up deep feelings and intensified emotions in our brains. Music becomes the key to