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May 4

Happy 70th anniversary of your first trip, Aldous Huxley

May 4th 1953 was also the birth of a friendship that would shape western culture’s understanding of psychedelics I’m doing an online event with Reanne Crane / Semantrix to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Aldous’ first trip on Sunday May 14. Tickets available here. …

Psychedelics

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Happy 70th anniversary of your first trip, Aldous Huxley
Happy 70th anniversary of your first trip, Aldous Huxley
Psychedelics

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Apr 21

Does psychedelic ‘medicine’ always give you what you need?

This is a post from the Ecstatic Integration Substack. To sign up for all our weekly posts, go here When I was 18, I took LSD at a rave, and had a bad trip. I felt irrationally afraid and self-conscious for hours, and went to bed feeling I had permanently…

Psychedelics

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Does psychedelic ‘medicine’ always give you what you need?
Does psychedelic ‘medicine’ always give you what you need?
Psychedelics

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Apr 19

Are secret societies always bad for society?

This January, the World Economic Forum reconvened in Davos. The annual gathering has been criticized as a place where the globalist elite gather to conspire against the rest of us. But Malcolm Collins scoffs at the idea anything important happens there. ‘Davos is where lower-level elites go to be told…

Secret Societies

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Are secret societies always bad for society?
Are secret societies always bad for society?
Secret Societies

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Apr 7

Preach! On the ethics of psychedelic testimonials

This is a free essay from my Ecstatic Integration substack, which explores how western cultures are going to re-integrate ecstatic and psychedelic experiences after four centuries of marginalization and pathologization. You can sign up for the newsletter here. In 2012, when I was researching a book on ecstatic experiences, I…

Psychedelics

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Preach! On the ethics of psychedelic testimonials
Preach! On the ethics of psychedelic testimonials
Psychedelics

14 min read


Apr 1

Nicky Gumbel on Alpha, holy spirit encounters, and hypnotic suggestibility

Back in 2015, when I was struggling to be a Christian, I interviewed Nicky Gumbel of the Alpha course about the psychology and ethics of ecstatic experiences in Christian churches. Nicky Gumbel is one of the most successful evangelists of his generation. A former barrister, he was until last year…

Christianity

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Nicky Gumbel on Alpha, holy spirit encounters, and hypnotic suggestibility
Nicky Gumbel on Alpha, holy spirit encounters, and hypnotic suggestibility
Christianity

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Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations

·Mar 5

Stoicism and anger management

This is the first interview I did for the Stoic Registry’s monthly newsletter. It’s an interview with a county sheriff called Jesse, who has used Stoicism to cope with his bad temper when dealing with Chicago’s gang-bangers: “I grew up on the north side of Chicago in the early 80s”…

Stoicism

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Stoicism and anger management
Stoicism and anger management
Stoicism

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Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations

·Feb 25

Stoicism and the ancient art of memorization

This is an excerpt from my first book, Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations, which explores how people use practices from ancient Greek philosophies in modern life. James Stockdale was a young fighter pilot flying bombing missions over North Vietnam, when his F-8 airplane was hit by anti-aircraft fire…

Stoicism

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Stoicism and the ancient art of memorization
Stoicism and the ancient art of memorization
Stoicism

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Feb 17

Tics, TikTok and the teen mental health crisis

What do you get if you cross the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual with High School Musical? TikTok! Occasionally some data appears that looks so awful it makes you do a doubletake. That was the case for me this week, when the Centre for Disease Control released data suggesting that American…

Social Media

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Tics, TikTok and the teen mental health crisis
Tics, TikTok and the teen mental health crisis
Social Media

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Feb 10

Want to counter Andrew Tate? Reclaim the BMW (basic moral wisdom)

It’s every liberal parent’s nightmare. One day they happen to glance at their 14-year-old son’s laptop, and they see he is watching videos by Andrew Tate, the mullah of misogyny. They start to notice red flags in their son’s conversation: ‘bitches’, ‘choke-holds’, ‘feminism is cancer’, ‘Hitler wasn’t all bad’. …

Andrew Tate

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Want to counter Andrew Tate? Reclaim the BMW (basic moral wisdom)
Want to counter Andrew Tate? Reclaim the BMW (basic moral wisdom)
Andrew Tate

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Feb 3

Ketamine: psychedelics meet hyper-capitalism

This is a story from our Ecstatic Integration newsletter. If you are interested in psychedelics and other forms of ecstatic experience, and how to integrate them into western cultures, sign up here. Ketamine clinics are booming across the US. According to psychedelic fund PsyMed, there were around 20 ketamine clinics…

Ketamine

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Ketamine: psychedelics meet hyper-capitalism
Ketamine: psychedelics meet hyper-capitalism
Ketamine

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Jules Evans

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Author of Philosophy for Life and other books. www.challengingpsychedelicexperiences.com

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