The authors of a recent study (Timmermann et al., 2018) argue that what people experience under the influence of DMT provides a model of what people undergo during near-death experiences. Although ...

Across hundreds of reported near–death experiences, people see the same things with staggering consistency. Now, scientists have discovered that these brushes with death share a surprising similarity ...

Scientists have peered inside the brain to show how taking DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering the brain's electrical activity. Scientists have peered inside the brain to show ...

Have you ever wondered why people who nearly die often describe speeding toward supernatural light, or seeing their life flash before their eyes? You may have also heard about the powerful psychedelic ...

5-MeO-DMT is a potent and fast-acting psychedelic, which is naturally produced by the Sonoran Desert toad as well as some species of plants. Its short duration –from 20 minutes to one hour– is giving ...

A new study from Imperial College London has found significant overlap between the experiences reported by subjects who have had near-death experiences, and volunteers administered with a powerful ...

This is your brain educated on drugs. Specifically, one of the most powerful mind-altering substances on the planet: 5-MeO-DMT. With all the enthusiasm around the use of psychedelics to treat mental ...

Known as the “spirit molecule” to psychedelics enthusiasts, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is said to produce vivid and strangely similar hallucinations for many who take it. Now, a new extended-state ...

This article was originally published on W eedWeek, and appears here with permission. Oregon’s recent vote to legalize psilocybin therapy, and the IPO of pharmaceutial psilocybin company Compass ...

Scientists have investigated the effects of one of the most powerful psychedelic substances known to man—and they found that it induces a state in the human brain akin to a vivid "waking-dream." DMT, ...