• The Story of LSD: From Ancient Mysteries to Modern Therapy

    Ancient Beginnings: The Eleusinian Mysteries The story begins thousands of years before LSD, with the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece. For nearly 2,000 years, initiates participated in secret ceremonies where they consumed a brew called “kykeon.” This ritual drink, likely containing ergot (a fungus that grows on grains and contains compounds similar to those in…


  • Integration: Meditation, Psychedelics, and the Science of Transformation

    Something remarkable has been unfolding over the past several decades: two ancient technologies for transforming consciousness—meditation and psychedelics—have simultaneously been reclaimed by Western science after long periods of dismissal or suppression. The psychedelic research shutdown of the 1970s occurred at nearly the same moment that meditation was beginning to enter American laboratories through the work…