Altering Consciousness Without Drugs: My Experience With Psychedelic Breathwork

There are many reasons why someone may want to alter their consciousness without drugs: legality, safety, more controllability, and fewer side effects. Humans have also long engaged in non-drug methods for altering consciousness, including meditation, fasting, chanting, drumming, and dancing. The Czech psychiatrist and LSD researcher Stan Grof developed a mind-altering technique called holotropic breathwork after LSD was made illegal. He had extensively studied the effects and benefits of this psychedelic, and so he wanted to continue to provide psychedelic experiences to others, without facing legal troubles. <a href="https://samwoolfe.medium.com/altering-consciousness-without-drugs-my-experience-with-psychedelic-breathwork-8c82f79f22ac">Read More</a>