Terence McKenna, psychedelic legend, explains why modern culture and the mainstream media are not your friends, and how to free yourself from their control

Carl Sagan demonstrates hypercubes, tesseracts, dimensional interaction and other insanity in this insane video that shows how higher dimensions work.

Holotropic breathwork is a way of breathing your way into a new state of consciousness. It's an incredible way to get, and stay, high.

Ken Wilber, the Einstein of spirituality, used Spiral Dynamics to demonstrate how individuals and cultures can evolve from the animal state to living gods.

Scientists at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Poland have discovered that great works of literature (like Finnegan's Wake) are actually fractals

A stoner kid and his friends decide to attend a Donald Trump rally on LSD. The results are even more horrifying than you'd imagine.

Do parallel universes influence each other? When you have déjà vu, is it because a parallel universe version of you has altered your life?

Psychedelic archaeologist Graham Hancock explains exactly where our civilization went wrong in his banned 2013 TED talk "The War on Consciousness"

From MK Ultra to the Aum Shinrikyo attacks to the CIA's Project Stargate, here's five times psychedelics and spirituality have been used against the masses.

Amateur scientists around the world are harassing the power of technology for biohacking the human body and creating real life superpowers.

These healing foods can be grown anywhere, or bought at organic stores, and can absolutely SUPERCHARGE your vitality, health and life energy!

What happens when we die? To find out, check out Ramin Nazer's brilliant "After You Die," a comic book guide to the potential afterlives awaiting us all!

For your perusal, here's a handy pictorial reference to the vast, terrifying vistas of space-time: All 10 dimensions, from first to tenth.

Check out this insane video of a jaguar chomping on an ayahuasca vine, shortly before blasting off into psychedelic hyperspace!

From Metropolis to 2001 to Enter the Void, here's ten of the greatest psychedelic movies ever made—take a trip into altered states of consciousness now!

Listen to Terence McKenna relate an experience he once had when he smoked DMT at the peak of an acid trip. Is it the best of both worlds?

Six visionary artists and writers whose profound love for altered states of consciousness inspired their incredible artistic masterpieces...!

Lucid dream benefits can have incredible, supercharging effects on your life, greatly enhancing both your sleeping AND waking life. Here's how.

Watch SF legend Philip K. Dick discuss the shocking awakening experience that eventually became the basis for the VALIS trilogy

Rick Strassman, who clinically studied the psychedelic DMT for years, has a new book on relating DMT to Hebrew scriptures

Psychedelic pioneer John C. Lilly, inventor of the sensory deprivation tank and intrepid explorer of altered states of consciousness, explains consciousness

Not to be a major buzzkill or anything, but have you ever wondered how many people die to bring you your drugs? That's the true cost of the War on Drugs

Are we close to an immortality pill? Here's five ways humans might be able to achieve their age-old dream of finding a way to live forever.

A look at the secret sexual practices of the visionary poet William Blake, who tapped into the occult, mysticism and even sex magick to inspire his art

Blindfolding yourself for long periods of time can cause incredible hallucinations perhaps even more intense than psychedelic substances, study reports

Lucid dreaming is a sign of incredible intelligence and problem-solving skills in waking life, according to new research. Can it actually boost IQ?

What does LSD do to you? Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, the first person in the UK to legally experiment with LSD, wants real answers.

Artist Shawn Thornton developed cancer of the pineal gland and painted an incredible series of psychedelic landscapes. Was his pineal pumping out DMT?

New research suggests that contrary to the Big Bang theory, our universe was actually formed in the event horizon of a black hole

"You can put an infinite number of pigeons in two boxes, and no two pigeons will be in the same box,” according to the quantum pigeonhole principle

Everything is an illusion created by language, according to the philosopher and mathematician Alfred Korzybski. Check out this mind-blowing video on why.

A new book by James Penner explores the "origin story" of Timothy Leary and his early days as a mild-mannered Harvard professor

UC San Diego student Daniel Chong was detained for four days without food or water after a DEA drug sweep. His story is harrowing—and enraging.

We think that our perception of time is fluid and continuous, but as one man's strange experience of seeing time stop revealed, that might be an illusion.

Research shows that magic mushrooms work on the same area of the brain as mindfulness meditation. But what does this mean for meditators and psychonauts?

Schizophrenics hearing voices often claim that the military or CIA is using weapons to target them. What if they're not as wrong as people think?

According to a new study, the infamous deep web drug market the Silk Road actually prevented violence around drug transactions

Sasha Shulgin died in June 2014, at the age of 88. We commemorate the absolutely incredible scientific and alchemical legacy he leaves the world

Several astronauts who have seen Earth from space have had profoundly awakening spiritual experiences. Here's four of them.

Stranger than fiction: Did J. P. Morgan executive Gabriel Magee commit suicide because he thought he could escape into an alternate universe?

Fluoride, a compound added to our water supply to improve dental health, has long been accused of causing brain damage. But what's the science?

A PhD candidate at the University of Osaka just invented a brain-machine interface that allows users to move devices. It's practically a telekinesis helmet.

New evidence has suggested that ancient humans regularly used entheogens and mind-altering substances as part of sacred ritual

A few simple additions to coffee can completely remove jitters and anxiety, while boosting energy and clarity, just like Bulletproof Coffee (but cheaper).

Researchers at UC Berkeley have discovered that unconscious responses are far more accurate at detecting lies than the rational mind

Get serious brain food with these ten sources of brain power—from blueberries to fish oil, these brain boosters and memory boosters will give you the edge!

A Brazilian scientist concludes that further research into the use of ayahuasca as an alternative cancer treatment is warranted

In 1996, Gary Webb broke the story that the CIA was implicated in trafficking crack cocaine into the United States. Here's why it matters more than ever.

Mathematicians break down the math behind the geometric patterns users of psychedelics see, with equations, finally explaining the crazy mathematical images

AyaAdvisors.org offers Yelp-style ayahuasca reviews of retreat centers in an effort to keep well-meaning spiritual seekers from being scammed

These four books on the psychedelic experience are essential, critical reading before going on an acid trip or other psychedelic voyage...!

Ichthyoallyeinotoxism is a complex word for a very simple act: Eating psychedelic fish to get higher than God. Ready to give it a try?

You can now buy Ayahuasca powder on Amazon.com... a one-way ticket to meeting the jaguar gods while puking and shitting yourself is just 1-Click away!

Smoking DMT, the world's most potent psychedelic, may soon become one of America's most popular pastimes, according to new research data

The Dream Machine, invented by Brion Gysin and made popular by William Burroughs and Psychic TV, is a device for causing hallucinations. Build one!

Turmeric is an amazing medicine in addition to being one of the world's most useful vitamins and herbs. Check out more about turmeric and its healing power.

I've heard a few complex, mind-bending drug stories told by Nor Cal bros in my time. But this one—on time travel, a psychedelic assassin and Google—*wins*.

Orgone (according to renegade psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich) is the sexual energy that runs the universe. Here's how to build a blanket that accumulates it!

Lucid Dreams: Cool-ass movies with no download times and which often star you and often have porn. Activate lucid dream mode and profit.

We review apps for binaural beats, isochronic tones and ecstasy generating noise. Binaural beats use two different frequencies to produce a third.

Meet the Amplituhedron, a newly-discovered geometrical object that challenges our most core assumptions about reality, even space and time themselves

Imagination is spread out in the brain in a widespread neural network, or "mental workspace" according to a research team at Dartmouth College.

This incredible video ("DMTrmx" by Martin Stebbing) combines immense animation of a DMT trip with Terence McKenna describing the effects of the psychedelic

Dokha is a common form of very powerful tobacco. Dudes in Dubai get dizzy with it often, and now it's in a city near you.

According to, uh, rumors from the Internet, teenagers are getting high by boiling shampoo and huffing the steam. Is Shamboiling the new Jenkem?

Hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin mushrooms and LSD not only don't cause mental health problems, they may actually improve mental health

Watching a visualization of your own heartbeat can lead to what researchers are calling an "out of body experience," a new study says.

A new study shows that the full moon has a massive effect on sleep cycles—suggesting it will keep people awake & even lower levels of melatonin.

According to a study, low doses of psilocybin mushrooms erase the conditioned fear response in mice—which may lead to the potential treatment of PTSD.

I recently began a series of experiments with the sensory deprivation tank as developed by John Lilly, a device that most have heard of but few have tried.

Descend into a series of bizarre subreddits, and you'll find Fifth World Problems, in which denizens of a neighboring universe discuss improbable physics.

Banksy and Swoon show how street art and graffiti can be used to change reality, and as a radical occult tool for warping the perceptions of the masses

The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss, ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna's account of his life with his older brother Terence McKenna, is out.

In August 2012, eighteen-year-old Kyle Nolan visited Peru for an ayahuasca retreat. Instead of enlightenment, he got buried in the jungle by the shaman.

Is Doctor Who a Tulpa (a Tibetan Buddhist thought projection)... and were his creators practicing Tulpamancy, the practice of creating thoughtforms?

Why we might as well harness the power of Wal-Mart to spread chaos and shamanic weirdness to the great American unwashed masses