Dying Before We Die: Mushrooms, Mystical Death, and the Ancient Technology of Transformation

“If you die before you die, you won’t die when you die.” — Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key Before entering into this week’s blog, I invite you to pause and take notice of how the title landed in your body. What emotions, sensations, memories or feelings if any did the title of this essay […]
Psilocybin and the Aging Brain

Exploring Psilocybin’s Potential for Cognitive Aging What if an aging brain is more capable of change than we’ve been taught to believe? A remarkable case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience this year has opened up a question that would have sounded almost impossible a decade ago: What happens when psilocybin meets a brain in […]
Aging as a Journey: What Plant Medicine Can Teach Us About Becoming

Aging as a Journey: What Plant Medicine Can Teach Us About Becoming I stand in front of the mirror holding onto my crystal gua sha as if it were a surgical tool, gliding it along the curvature of my face with the precision and focus of an open-heart surgeon. My skincare routine used to be […]
Grief, Mushrooms, and the Mystery of Letting Go

Psilocybin and Grief: Making Space for Loss, Ritual, and the Mystery “Every one of us must undertake an apprenticeship with sorrow. We must learn the art and craft of grief, discover the profound ways it ripens and deepens us.”— Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow The Lost Art of Grieving And yet, in today’s […]
The Subtleties of Microdosing and Macrodosing

Microdosing vs Macrodosing: The Whisper and the Roar Psychedelics have found themselves in the cultural spotlight once again, but much of the conversation has become centered on dosage. Should you microdose? Should you macrodose? Which is better? Perhaps a more nuanced question is this: What kind of relationship are you seeking with the medicine? When […]
Psilocybin Dosage Guide: Understanding the Mushroom Dose Spectrum

If you’ve spent any time around mushrooms, you’ve probably heard people talk about dosage as though there is a simple formula: “take this much and you’ll have this kind of experience.” But friends, psilocybin doesn’t quite work that way. Dose matters oftentimes profoundly but it is only one piece of a much larger picture. The […]
The Mental Health Revolution Happening Outside of Pharmacies

Not medical advice. This article is educational. Psilocybin is not a treatment for any medical condition, and nothing here is a substitute for care from a qualified health professional. If you take prescription psychiatric medication, do not stop or change it without talking to your prescriber. Microdosing for mental health describes taking sub-perceptual doses of psilocybin, […]
Safe Psilocybin Storage: Why It Matters More Than You Think

Safe psilocybin storage has quietly become one of the most important responsibilities in this new chapter of psychedelic medicine. Every movement reaches a moment where its future is shaped not only by its breakthroughs, but by its mistakes as well. Psychedelic medicine is no exception. For decades, researchers, clinicians, and advocates have worked to move […]
Microdosing with Golden Teachers

Microdosing Golden Teachers has quietly become one of the most rewarding practices in my life. My Story with Golden Teachers Of all the mushroom strains I’ve encountered, Golden Teachers hold a particularly special place in my heart. They were among the first mushrooms I ever journeyed with, and over the years they’ve accompanied me through […]
Macrodosing Might Just Change Your Reality

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.” “The psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. The psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid-down models of behavior and information […]