Tag: LSD

He was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England in 1904 but became world famous as film icon Cary Grant. Throughout the 20th Century few movie stars achieved his level of worldwide fame. His mother died when he was age nine, and that may have contributed to issues with women for the rest of his...

Imagine you are sitting in a typical Scottish pub during the 1960s, and a robed monk comes out of nowhere, looks at you, immediately bows, leans in real close and personal-like, and touches your forehead with his. In addition to this strange greeting for the times, this man starts chanting very loud...

10 years ago today, I got the worst (and best) birthday gift of my life. I dropped acid with my friends and spiraled into existential confusion and panic (colloquially known as a “bad trip”). Fast forward 4 months later, I was enjoying some quality time with the family until a whisper of...

When sleep won’t come in this era of pervasive anxiety and exhaustion, it’s tempting to turn to any number of promising sleep aids. But the majority of options — from herbal supplements to sleeping pills — range from unproven to ineffective to outright dangerous. Meanwhile, s...

There are two key components to a psychedelic trip that you will hear anyone who’s ever taken psychedelics talk about: set and setting. Set is your mindset going into the trip, whereas setting is the environment in which you’re taking the trip — including the people that ...

The Game-Changer: Understanding MM120’s Breakthrough Designation The landscape of GAD treatment is on the brink of a revolutionary shift with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) breakthrough therapy designation for MM120, a medication based on LSD. This novel therapy heralds a...

Betsy Drake was a successful New York stage actress who moved to Los Angeles at the urging of boyfriend Cary Grant. In 1948, she starred opposite Grant in her first film Every Girl Should Be Married. She and Grant married the following year. It was her first marriage and Grant’s third. Dr...

Carl Jung, father of analytic philosophy and student of Sigmund Freud and his work in psychoanalysis, is to psychology as Plato is to philosophy. What comes after Jung cannot escape his influence, as we see with Stanislav Grof’s transpersonal psychotherapy. With so much clout, not to say an...

I don’t identify this as childhood trauma. Though maybe that’s a masculine cultural narrative speaking? As I loved my childhood. However, there were several events that made my internal headspace utterly horrific. So, if you’re currently experiencing difficulties with y...