This is the first in a multi-part series in which we unpack our seven event categories and how they intersect with the use of psychedelics. First up, NATURE CONNECTION and how psychedelics may open up a door to a deeper relationship with the earth - and ourselves. In the 1962 novel Island, Aldous Huxley describes a utopian society living in harmony with the natural world and one another. The island inhabitants ritualistically consume moksha, a powerful psychedelic medicine. As global psychedelic use continues to rise, could Huxley’s envisioned hope for a more interconnected world unfold? Psyc ..read more

Court Wing experienced relief from persistent, long-term chronic pain with just one administration of psilocybin. Now, Court, alongside a team of experts, has developed a groundbreaking, free course on psychedelics and pain. This is his story. With a five-year bout of increasingly treatment-resistant depression, Court Wing jumped at the opportunity to participate in NYU’s Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) trial in 2021. His depression was instantly relieved after a single dose, which he likened to psilocybin “surgically removing” his symptoms. Astonishingly, Court’s long-standing ..read more

Jonathan Robinson is a California-based psychotherapist and New York Times best-selling author and facilitator of several courses at The Psychedelic Society for MDMA and healing. He is also the host of Awareness Explorers podcast, and a regular on shows such as Oprah and CNN. His next courses with us are MDMA Therapy for Healing Relationships (Jan 24 2024) and Healing with MDMA: 8-week Facilitator Training (March 2024) In 1997, I wrote a book called Communication Miracles for Couples. It ended up becoming a New York Times bestseller after my appearance on The Oprah Show. S ..read more

Jonathan Robinson is a California-based psychotherapist and New York Times best-selling author and facilitator of several courses at The Psychedelic Society for MDMA and healing. He is also the host of Awareness Explorers podcast, and a regular on shows such as Oprah and CNN. His next courses with us are MDMA Therapy for Healing Relationships (Jan 2024) and Healing with MDMA: 8-week Facilitator Training (March 2024) I’ve led journeys with perhaps 500 individuals and 150 couples as an underground therapist. Due to the drug being illegal during this period, I’ve had to keep&n ..read more

Jonathan Robinson is a California-based psychotherapist and New York Times best-selling author and facilitator of several courses at The Psychedelic Society for MDMA and healing. He is also the host of Awareness Explorers podcast, and a regular on shows such as Oprah and CNN. His next courses with us are MDMA Therapy for Healing Relationships (Jan 2024) and Healing with MDMA: 8-week Facilitator Training (March 2024) I’ve led journeys with perhaps 500 individuals and 150 couples as an underground therapist. Due to the drug being illegal during this period, I’ve had to keep&n ..read more

In this piece we share the highlight of Transform Drug Policy Foundation’s recently published comprehensive guide to regulating psychedelics. The Foundation is a leading advocate in drug policy reform that has been providing expertise to governments and the public about alternative modes of drug regulation for over two decades. Given the considerable rise in popularity of psychedelics over recent years, the 124-page How to Regulate Psychedelics: A Practical Guide - by Steve Rolles and Ester Kincová maps out how non-medical use of these substances may be responsibly regulated. “Research into t ..read more

Roberta Jean is a critically acclaimed choreographer whose most recent performance, Ways of Being (Thursday, 9th, and Friday, 10th of November, at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio, London) incorporates suffering related to premenstrual disorder (PMDD) and healing through psychedelics. In this piece we explore the evidence of microdosing to soothe this painful and life-disrupting disorder. From ‘Ways of Being.’ Photo by Emli Bendixen Roberta Jean is one of the 3-9% of women who experience debilitating emotional and physical symptoms in the lead-up to menstruation, known as PMDD. Women with ..read more

DMT, short for N, N-dimethyltryptamine, is a short-acting, potent psychedelic. Also known as the "spirit molecule", DMT's reported powerful and transformative effects have sparked research interest in its use for psychedelic therapy. A research group at University College London (UCL) aims to understand how DMT's psychological benefits could relate to brain activity changes. The project is being undertaken by the UNITy (Understanding Neuroplasticity Induced by Tryptamines) research group, based at UCL's Department of Psychology and Language Science. Using fMRI, a brain-imaging technique that ..read more

Applications open until 10 Sept 2023 Location: Remote working Working contract type: Freelance The role: £20/hr for 16 hours/week; ideally spread out over 5 working days Flexible working hours Opportunity to work with a passionate team Access to our wide range of events Potential for growth into salaried role The Psychedelic Society is a mission-driven not for profit worker’s cooperative organisation that hosts more than 400 events for over 10,000 people each year and has been educating the public and providing a space for the psychedelic community for nearly 10 years. As we contin ..read more

In a powerful demonstration of unity, I had the privilege to meet activists, politicians, and journalists at Parliament Square on the 27th of June to discuss UK drug policy reform. The event was the seventh mass lobby organised by Anyone's Child - a network of families with lives devastated by the harms of drug prohibition.  Thousands of lives lost to the drug war While preparing for the event, 4,517 forget-me-nots were laid on Westminster’s College Green, just across from the houses of Parliament. Each one of these flowers represented a life lost due to drug poisoning in 2020.  We w ..read more