States of Consciousness

Three particular themes are basic to this study. First, that the human race and its environment are involved in a slowly progressive process of rev...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman'Fasci...

Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brai...

Experts from a range of disciplines assess the foundations and implications of a novel action-oriented view of cognition. Cognitive science is e...

For as long as humanity has existed, we have used psychedelics to raise our levels of consciousness and seek healing-first in the form of visionary...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that has a long history of ritual use among indigenous groups of the Upper Amazon. Made from the ayahuasca vine an...

A marvel of brash opinion, contemporary society, politics, and memoir. Bookforum Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Modern Stimulants is a meditation ...

Artist Joe Roberts has spent more than a decade honing a deeply unique and unapologetically hallucinogenic style of art. Through paintings, drawing...

An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be ...

On May 27, 1963, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert were dismissed from Harvard University's Psychology Department--a watershed event marking...

Best known as the first person to synthesize, ingest, and discover the psychedelic effects of LSD, Albert Hofmann was more than just a chemist. A p...

Salvia divinorumhas been used since ancient times by the Mazatec shamans of Mexico for divination, vision quests, and healing. Known by many names-...

How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations. How can...