Jules Evans

Sir Robert Edward Grant and The Architect Is AI spiritually awakening or are LLMs leading us on a merry dance?

Robert Edward Grant isn't the only person to think they have magically awakened ChatGPT in the last few weeks, but he's the only one with hundreds of thousands of online followers. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/sir-robert...

Come to this in 90 mins.

Come to this free online debate / discussion tomorrow between myself and Philippe Lucas, head of safe access at MAPS, on 'go fast or slow down on psychedelic liberalization'. www.eventbrite.com/e/go-faster-...

"Bad trips" can have surprising benefits Psychedelics can cause long-lasting challenging experiences. In certain settings, they can be transformative

New article in 'Salon' by Elizabeth Hlavinka about the bad & the good sides of 'bad trips', interviewing Eirini Argyri & myself about our work on the Challenging #Psychedelic Experiences Project exploring recovery & growth after post-psychedelic extended difficulties

www.salon.com/2025/06/06/b...

New study sheds light on which post-psychedelic difficulties last longest and what helps people cope While many praise psychedelics for their therapeutic power, new research reveals that some users face long-lasting psychological challenges. This study explores the most common difficulties and the co...

Which post psychedelic difficulties last longest and cause the most suffering, and what coping techniques do people find helpful for different symptoms? www.psypost.org/new-study-sh...

If you or someone you know needs support and sympathy in the midst of post psychedelic difficulties, come to our free online peer support group this Sunday at 6pm UK time. contact@challengingpsychedelicexperiences.com

I guess we've already passed the point where more people are using AI as therapist than humans...

All your friends are belong to us AI bots urgently need to be taught therapeutic ethics

Blew my mind a bit to look at the rapidly growing market for AI friends / assistants / therapists / lovers (and sometimes all those roles at once), and the psychological and ethical impacts. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/all-your-f...

Navigating groundlessness: An interview study on dealing with ontological shock and existential distress following psychedelic experiences Psychedelic induced mystical experiences have been largely assumed to drive the therapeutic effects of these substances, which may in part be mediated by changes in metaphysical beliefs. However, ther...

Our latest CPEP, led by @eirini-k-a.bsky.social exploring ontological shock & existential challenge as extended difficulties following a psychedelic experience - highlighting that grounding practices, integration support, & time were critical in helping participants cope. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Mother hanged herself after becoming hooked on ketamine: inquest Interior designer Emma Neame took ketamine and may have been hallucinating when she ended her life in the garden of her flat.

And another. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Why Emily Willis’ mum is suing rehab centre after adult star suffered cardiac arrest and left ‘permanently disabled’ Real name Litzy Lara Banuelos, Emily Willis is 'permanently disabled' after her brain was starved of oxygen for a prolonged period of time

Another victim of ketamine addiction. www.ladbible.com/news/crime/e...

Digital McCarthyism

What every psychedelic guide should know about fairies Elf-lore 101

I spoke to @philosojules.bsky.social about the history of fairies for this fascinating guide he's now written: www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/what-every...

The landscape of ketamine use disorder: Patient experiences and perspectives on current treatment options Aims To report the symptoms and aetiology of ketamine use disorder (KUD), gauge the effectiveness of current treatment services and identify strategies to enhance patient access and outcomes. Desi...

Amazing paper on harms from ketamine use disorder from Celia Morgan's team at Exeter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

AI-generated videos as psychedelic experiences Plus, responses to my NYT op-ed

Ari Kuschnir, whose AI generated videos have been seen hundreds of millions of times this year, says his aim is to offer glimpses of alternative, more hopeful realities. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/ai-generat...

Opinion | How the American Right Learned to Love Psychedelics (Gift Article) A once left-wing psychedelic movement has become tightly entwined with the Trump administration.

Psychedelics could play a leading role in mental health care. But if approval is rushed without necessary guardrails in place, there will be a backlash, and these drugs will be relegated to the fringes of alternative health. That would be a tragic missed opportunity. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Jon Lubecky: how the psychedelic movement could fail 'When medicine becomes a movement, the people who suffer are the patients, because the patients are inherently exploited for the movement’

Jon Lubecky, former MAPS veterans lobbyist, taking no prisoners in his analysis of what's wrong with the 'psychedelic movement' www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/jon-lubeck...

This S.F. college is rolling out the nation’s first undergrad degree in psychedelics San Francisco's California Institute of Integral Studies this fall is introducing the nation's first bachelor's degree in psychedelic studies.

Wow the world's first underground degree. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...

The Rise of Psilocybin Use in the United States: A Multisource Observational Study | Annals of Internal Medicine

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Emergency reports of children under 11 accidentally consuming magic mushrooms went up over 700% from 2019 to 2023 in the US. Parents, be careful with your shrooms!

Nine things you should know before entering the psychedelic industry On psychedelic gatekeepers, and other challenges

Nine things you should know before working in the psychedelic industry. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/nine-thing...

Wealthy Catholics to target Cardinals with ‘Red Hat Report’ A new Catholic watchdog group plans to spend over one million dollars to investigate every member of the College of Cardinals.

A group of wealthy right-wing Americans have formulated a plan to make sure the next Pope is right-wing, by scouring the IDs of cardinals and finding incriminating information on any likely to vote for a left-wing candidate. cruxnow.com/church-in-th...

Elon Musk emerges as leading voice in pro-natalism movement Elon Musk, the world's richest man and top adviser to President Trump, is quickly becoming the face of the pro-natalism movement. Musk is encouraging modern couples and women to have more babies argui...

Pronatalism makes NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/el...

Is Ketamine the Next Miracle Treatment, or the Next Crisis? It promises rapid relief from depression, but some say it left them worse off. Experts warn we could be on the verge of another drug epidemic.

MAHA funder Ford Smith opens up about ketamine dependency and a psychotic break he had at Burning Man. doubleblindmag.com/is-ketamine-...

Middlebury Centre on Terrorism develops my 2021 exploration of the far-right tendencies of the starseed movement. www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...

Antidepressant effects of psychedelics may be overstated in some clinical trials A new meta-analysis shows that reported antidepressant effects of psychedelics vary widely depending on the study design used.

'The final analysis included 21 studies. Studies that used a non-active placebo reported large or medium antidepressant effects for psilocybin and MDMA. In contrast, studies that used an active placebo reported no antidepressant effects.' www.psypost.org/antidepressa...

Yes, there could be an apology from institutions. Its strange to me that one never hears it mentioned in psychedelic research conferences or much mentioned in papers either.

You ever heard it mentioned, at any psychedelic conference or in any psychedelic paper? Huge glaring silence on the entire episode. Never happened!

Why don't any psychedelic researchers ever acknowledge or apologise for their universities' involvements in MKUltra - the worst human rights abuse on US citizens by their own government? Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, McGill, Berkeley, UCLA, Oklahoma, Illinois...

How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives A DOGE staffer working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing questionable claims about noncitizens voting — apparently using data that court records suggest DOGE shouldn't have.

Phenomenal sourcing by NPR to identify Antonio Gracias as "Employee 4" at SSA and how he might have broken laws and agreements www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...