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Psychedelics Today - Kyle and Joe - Year End Recap

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Download It is the start of a New Year. People are saying 2016 has been pretty horrible, but 2016 has been pretty decent in regards to psychedelic science and research. We are hoping that 2017 will be a fruitful year as well. In this episode Kyle and Joe run through the year in review -- thoughts about the podcast and project as well as recap just a few of the psychedelic highlights of 2016. Kyle and Joe also talk about a Psychedelic Self Care and Integration course being offered for a short period of time, Psychedelic mentor-ship, speculations and visions for 2017, and much more! There was some discussion towards the end about rites of passage and human development. Kyle mentions writing a paper about this topic. You can check part of the paper out below the "Links" section. 2016 Psychedelic Highlights LSD & The Brain

• Imaging the Brain on LSD Was the Most Important Experiment of 2016
• Neural correlates of the LSD experience revealed by multimodal neuroimaging
• The brain on LSD revealed: first scans show how the drug affects the brain
• Semantic activation in LSD: evidence from picture naming
  • How LSD Affects Language

Psilocybin

• Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation
• Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer: A randomized double-blind trial
• A Dose of a Hallucinogen From a "Magic Mushroom," and Then Lasting Peace

MDMA

• FDA Approves Phase 3 Research for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy

Other

• Psychedelic Training
• Horizons NYC
• Beyond Psychedelics

Let us know what else we missed! Links Dr Ben Sessa MD Psychedelic Science 2017 - Oakland, CA Psychedelic Integration & Self-Care Course Rites of Passage: The Importance of Transitions Ralph Metzner diagnoses the psychopathology of humans in the Western society into the categories of, "addiction, dissociation, autism, and amnesia" (Metzner, 1995). The Western culture suffers from these metaphoric diagnoses, which stems from a loss of ritual and also the disconnection from nature. Paul Shepard states that the Western Judeo-Christian civilization is slowly self-destructing and mentions that it is "ontogenic crippling" (Metzner, 1995). Shepard examines the developmental process throughout human history and investigating the development of surviving hunter-gather societies that are still alive today – which give a foundation of human

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