By MICHAEL POLLAN MAY 15, 2018 The researchers and renegades bringing psychedelic drugs into the mental health mainstream. The Health Issue Guided Explorations By MICHAEL POLLAN The Vigil By SULEIKA JAOUAD Machine Medicine By ABRAHAM VERGHESE Critical Care By KIM TINGLEY The researchers and renegades bringing psychedelic drugs into the mental health mainstream. By MICHAEL POLLAN MAY 15, 2018 My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard. On this adventure I would have a guide, a therapist who, like an unknown number of other therapists administering psychedelics in America today, must work underground because these drugs are illegal. Seated across the altar from me, Mary (who asked that I use a nickname because of the work she does) began by reciting, with her eyes closed, a long and elaborate prayer derived from various Native American traditions. My eyes were closed, too, but now and again I couldn’t resist peeking out for a glance at my guide: a woman in her 60s with long blond hair parted in the middle and high cheekbones that I mention only because they would, in a few… Read full this story
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