Entheogens / Psychedelics

A comprehensive guide to psilocybin mushrooms and their impact on our psychology, biology, and social development.

How--and why--do psychedelics exist? Did psilocybin catalyze our early human ancestors social evolution? And how can an integral understanding of psychedelics quite literally change the world?

The countercultural healers guide for building a sustainable and values-driven practice: work toward your purpose, grow your client base, and thrive with integrity within an unjust capitalist system. The time for healing--and the time to be a healer--is now.

Includes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmerman, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke

"He who is about to come to life under the impact of LSD-25 must first learn how to die."
- Ben Metcalfe, Vancouver Province, Sept 1, 1959

&nbspFrom the street, New Westminster's Hollywood Hospital didn't look like much. Just a rambling white mansion, mostly obscured behind the holly trees from which it took its name.

The idea that plants have a mind of their own has been a prominent feature of some Indigenous narratives, literary works, and philosophical discourses.

More and more Westerners are coming to drink ayahuasca in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world. This formerly esoteric, little-known brew is now a growth industry. But why?