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Psychedelics are enjoying a massive resurgence into mainstream awareness as tools for personal and spiritual growth, and as therapies for common mental health challenges such as depression and anxiety. Among psychedelics, one substance stands out for its ability to bring about profound personal transformation on a collective scale in a safe, accessible, and sustainable way: Psilocybin.

No matter how materially wealthy we might be, the meaning and nature of our existence can leave us with unanswered questions. What is our purpose in life, and how much does that even matter in the face of our mortality?

As well as cutting to the core of what it means to be human, how we feel about these existential beliefs can have a profound impact on our mental well-being.

Set and Setting – if you’re new to psychedelics (i.e. psilocybin mushrooms) or other techniques to generate altered states (such as holotropic breathwork), these are concepts and practices that will become an essential part of your toolkit. If you’re an experienced psychonaut, then taking the time to see if you need to update them can reinvigorate your experience.

When you’re new to psychedelics, terms like “shadow work” or “spiritual bypassing” can be daunting. If this is you, don’t panic! Despite how mysterious and occult they sound, these concepts are vital parts of psychedelic integration and personal growth. Far from being only for beginners, these ideas, and the practices that go with them, are relevant for even the most experienced psychedelic traveler.

When people think about mescaline, the first cactus that comes to mind is peyote. This slow-growing and sacred plant, revered by the Native American Church, deserves its reputation as an influential plant teacher. But there are many other mescaline-containing cacti. Of these, the San Pedro cactus is the most famous. Known to botanists as Echinopsis pachanoi or Trichocereus pachanoi, this cactus is a remarkable plant medicine in its own right.

So, you’ve read up on the San Pedro cactus, Echinopsis pachanoi (Trichocereus pachanoi). You know its botanical and cultural background and what you might expect from an experience with the mescaline it contains. But you’ve yet to try this sacred cactus for the first time.

Maybe you’ve already had a Huachuma experience deep in the Andes mountains of Peru and are ready to work with this remarkable psychedelic plant medicine on your terms without returning to South America for a San Pedro ceremony.

While hallucinogens such as mescaline and magic mushrooms impacted 20th-century psychotherapy and popular culture, no psychedelic was as influential or disruptive as LSD. Since its serendipitous discovery, LSD has produced healing and joy, but also controversy and occasionally exploitation. One thing is for sure: its history has never been boring.

In many medical research and clinical practice fields, Australia “punches above its weight.” But does this apply to ketamine or psychedelics?

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved ketamine as an anesthetic agent in both humans and animals in Australia.

Microdosing is the act of integrating sub-perceptual doses of psychedelics, such as LSD, DMT, or psilocybin mushrooms, into your weekly routine for enhanced levels of creativity, energy, focus, and improved relational skills. When we say “sub-perceptual”, we mean that the tiny amounts used, usually less than 1/10th of a standard recreational dose, are so small that you won’t experience any strong psychedelic or hallucinogenic effects. What microdosers do notice are profoundly positive changes to how they think and feel, which is what’s driven the explosion of interest in this approach to working with psychedelics to support health and wellness.