Users of the psychedelic drug DMT have told scientists what it's like to encounter otherworldly beings during trips. The authors of a study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology learned their ...

In Greek mythology, it was Charon, the scrawny ferryman, who paddled souls across the River Styx to the underworld. But the real-life ferryman transporting our human souls between the realms of the ...

Have you ever wondered why people who nearly die often describe speeding toward supernatural light, or seeing their life flash before their eyes? You may have also heard about the powerful psychedelic ...

DMT is a powerful psychedelic drug known to produce visions involving 'other beings' like elves, aliens, and deities. Researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have surveyed over 2,500 people ...

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a naturally occurring psychedelic drug found in many plants and animals, and it has been claimed to naturally occur in the human brain itself (Strassman, 2001). DMT, less ...

Since the turn of the millennium the so-called “psychedelic renaissance” has slowly been growing, with a number of dedicated researchers tirelessly working to legitimize a field of science profoundly ...

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