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Roger ‘Mukanranko’ Bardales, international brujo

Roger ‘Mukanranko’ Bardales, international brujo

Roger Bardales, also called Mukanranko and Mokan Ranko, is a 39-year-old Shipibo shaman who presents himself as ‘ambassador of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe’. This article contains interviews with nine students who worked with him over the last 12 years, who say he has...

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Psychedelic Research at UW Madison

Psychedelic Research at UW Madison

"In August 2021, UW-Madison opened the Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances, expanding upon clinical psychedelic studies that have been on campus for the past seven years. And this fall, the UW School of Pharmacy launched the nation’s first...

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Sacred Plant Alliance

Sacred Plant Alliance

Shamanic Ceremony Leaders Join Forces to Shape Legal Strategy through the Sacred Plant Alliance A professional organization of psychedelic churches that have historically been part of different, and sometimes conflicting lineages, hopes to build and share resources...

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Psychedelic Research Timeline

Psychedelic Research Timeline

By the Beckley Foundation. After a long winter, spring has come for psychedelic research... In the 50s, 60s, thousands of LSD studies were carried out. Then the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 effectively ended all government-sanctioned psychedelic research, and...

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Depression, Psilocybin, & Clinical Trials

Depression, Psilocybin, & Clinical Trials

Psychedelics have been used throughout history for spiritual and healing purposes. During the 1950s and 1960s many clinical trials involving psychedelics as a psychotherapeutic treatment were conducted. Although these studies were promising, they lacked...

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Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna talks about culture, 5 dried grams of psilocybin mushrooms and self empowerment, from the question and answer session of his lecture entitled 'Eros And The Eschaton'

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