Had a great chinwag with the blarney kissing and ever curious Evan Mcgloughlin about all things weird, psychedelic and exceptional experience on his Giant's Shoulder podcast.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD...

Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's

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Keeping it surreal and taking it back to the home of Dada I'll be heading to the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich to speak at The Psychedelic Salon on 'Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience' on Thursday, 9 April 2026, 6 - 9 pm www.cabaretvoltaire.ch#node-127897-en

Ever dreamed the future? We are launching a new study experimentally exploring the phenomena of precognitive #dreams under controlled conditions and are looking for lucid and non-lucid dreamers to take part.. from the comfort of your own bed. QR code or link: gre.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Feeling very privileged to be part of the structured Afterlight psilocybin retreat here in the very beautiful nature of Negril, and featured in the Jamaica Gleaner along with lead psychologist Dr. Crystyn Scott. Such an extraordinary team here doing great work. jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news...

Trauma care meets psilocybin in a structured retreat

Afterlight Retreats will host its first clinical psilocybin therapy and integration retreats in Jamaica from today through to March 8 at Negril Huts, a private cluster of cottages on the West End clif...

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Ecodelia and the lost art of lichenthropy - On becoming fungus on acid and on being publicly ridiculed by grass on Salvia My latest Substack exploring the psychedelic experiences leading folk to connect & communicate with, or transform into other species substack.com/@davidluke54...

Ecodelia and the lost art of lichenthropy

On becoming fungus on acid and on being publicly ridiculed by grass on Salvia

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New podcast interview with Haley Dourron at Furthure on ‘Exceptional Experiences with Psychedelics and Beyond’ for all the latest on the far out and freaky end of the spectrum psychedelic experiences.. open.spotify.com/episode/1Kng...

Exceptional Experiences with Psychedelics and Beyond with Dr. David Luke

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Pleased to be joining counselling psychologist Dr Crystyn Scott & team at the Afterlight psilocybin retreat in Jamaica next month to offer guidance & support. Afterlight are committed to helping islanders recover following Hurricane Melissa. A few spaces left www.afterlightretreats.com/experience

Putting the psi back into psilocybin - On psychedelomancy & exceptional psychedelic experiences Latest Substack, exploring the paranormal experiences of the original pioneers of psychedelic science in the 50s & 60s on their initial altered excursions! tinyurl.com/2mvw7w7d

Putting the psi back into psilocybin

On psychedelomancy and exceptional psychedelic experiences

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There's been a lot of discussion recently about a non-psilocybin 'magic mushroom' from China that induces encounters with small armies of little people. I took a longer look under the tablecloth to see what all the fuss was about.. davidluke543044.substack.com/p/so-long-as...

So long as you've got your elf

On mushrooms and miniature people

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'Dream yoga on the high seas - On pirate utopias and intellectual and psychic piracy.' My latest post on Substack, exploring the very body, mind and soul of pirates, and, well, everyone really. davidluke543044.substack.com/p/dream-yoga...

Dream yoga on the high seas

On pirate utopias and intellectual and psychic piracy

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You've undoubtedly heard of apparently precognitive dreams, or possibly had one. You may've even heard of the 'law of large numbers' as an explanation. But have you heard of the 'law of at large slumbers'? New substack about my Popular Mechanics interview substack.com/profile/1969...

My latest post on Substack, where I whine about Wikipedia, fail to coin a new psychological term, find myself sceptical about organised skepticism, but end up very much admiring some abstract art.. in.. The Battle of Portmanteau davidluke543044.substack.com/p/the-battle...

The Battle of Portmanteau

On finding artistic patterns in the war with guerrilla skeptics and their rigid support for a Nazi psychiatrist

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Following on from my interview with @matthabusby.bsky.social for DoubleBlind last week I've further extended some of those insights into the highly speculative psychedelic origins of (or contributions to) language evolution into a new Substack post - davidluke543044.substack.com/p/reawakenin...

Reawakening the Stoned Ape

On the possible psychedelic origins of language, and why there might be better options than attending a ‘once every 17 years’ hypersexual psychedelic zombie orgy swarm party

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Excited that Breaking Convention, the UK's largest & oldest (& arguably best) psychedelic research conference, is returning to SE London in 2026 at the next door wich to Greenwich. Woolwich. I guess any old wich will do so long as you know which wich is which. See you there? breakingconvention.co.uk

Some suggestion from this interesting new research that 'couples who trip together, stick together' - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Associations of Couples’ Psychedelic Use with Shared Reality and Relational Well-Being

The resurgence in research with classic psychedelics (e.g. LSD, psilocybin) underscores their potential for improved well-being; however, the interpersonal context and mechanisms of psychedelic imp...

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Had a great day listening to Max Cooper's incredible music through the 360 multilayered immersive sound installation at the University of Greenwich Immersive Lab with Max & a fantastic crew of fellow audionauts as part of my PhD student Viviana Caros project into audio ASCs & spiritual experience.

The serpent's tale of the original medical staff - Hippocrates and the therapeutēs On altered states, visionary experience and healing in ancient Greece, the Amazon and my back garden My latest substack: davidluke543044.substack.com/p/the-serpen...

An auto-eulogising round up of my the lost/last year.. Chasing academic chimeras in the pursuit of exceptional experiences: 2025 as the year of dream temples, salamanders, psychedelics and sawing children in half.. davidluke543044.substack.com/p/chasing-ac...

Chasing academic chimeras in the pursuit of exceptional experiences

2025 as the year of dream temples, salamanders, psychedelics and sawing children in half..

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Props to the CPEP research team tinyurl.com/ywa6jbe8 especially lead author @eirini-k-a.bsky.social, our paper on post-psychedelic ontological shock got selected by PLOS One editors from among 1000s as a stand out paper in medicine in 2025. everyone.plos.org/2025/12/16/e... doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Editors' picks: A highlight of 2025 publications - EveryONE

Reflecting on the publications in PLOS One in 2025, the diversity and quality of the work is demonstrated in articles ranging from…

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A third-eye peeping exploration by Webb Wright of that particular 'dimethyltrypta-meme' that the pineal gland is the seat of the soul and neurochemical factory of the spirit molecule DMT, for which I chimed in with a few (interdimensional) observations.. newsletter.doubleblindmag.com/p/why-the-pi...

Why the Pineal Gland Became a Spiritual Fixation

In today's dispatch, we're unpacking what we actually know about the pineal gland.

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Great article by @matthabusby.bsky.social on the origin story of psychonaut scientist Bruce Damer & the origin story of life on earth, and Bruce's MINDS project exploring the use of psychedelic for scientific creative problem solving nautil.us/the-psychede... see also doi.org/10.1177/2050...

The Psychedelic Scientist

The Psychedelic Scientist: High on ayahuasca, Bruce Damer saw how life on Earth began. He may very well be right.

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Great piece by Tamlin Magee for BBC celebrates the many unsung contributions of Erowid.org to drug policy, culture and science & interviewing psychedelic nerds like myself, Erik Davis, Rick Doblin, Leor Roseman, & Nicolas Langlitz

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Article on BBC about Erowid and its impact on psychedelic science. www.bbc.com/future/artic... "[T]his small, Web 1.0 side project that predated Wikipedia–with its stubbornly retro aesthetics […]—brought psychonauts together to create a whole new space. […] It has an outsized impact to this day "

A fascinating @drugscience.bsky.social podcast interview by David Nutt with 3 SAS paramedics, echoing the findings of our naturalistic pilot study of 5 paramedics who took psilocybin to deal with work place stress, with reductions in burnout, stress & compassion fatigue.. tinyurl.com/ycujmvw7

138. Scottish Ambulance Service - Frontline Trauma with John, Joanne and Ryan

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Really excited to be returning to Dublin for Samhain for the 2nd IMBAS Psychedelic Research Conference organised by Irish Doctors for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy @IdPat7 & the Psychedelic Research Group, Trinity College Dublin. I'll be talking Ecodelia & the Art of Lichenthropy www.idpat.ie/events

Events | Irish Doctors for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

We will keep you posted on upcoming educational events in the field of psychedelic medicine.

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Will be giving a short talk tonight for Numinous Ways on Entity Encounters in Psychedelic Experience.. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-david-l...

Encouraging to see this recent UK Gov's Natural England commissioned report on the importance of nature connection, and also that it mentions our research on the enhanced wellbeing & connection to nature derived from psychedelic experiences tinyurl.com/265z58wn

Connection to Nature - EIN068

{"flavour": "textile", "content": "This briefing focuses on the evidence for connection to nature and is one of a series that summarises evidence of the links between the natural environment and a ran...

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Finally I am giving a talk in a venue that matches my end-of-the-pier 'standard' of humour - The Gaiety, Portsmouth, next Monday 6th October, for The Science of Psychedelics.. "I'm here all week!" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scienc...

This new collaborative paper from 17 @drugscience.bsky.social professionals (myself included) in the field presents a new standardized terminology for psychedelic research and treatment to guide clinical development, dosing, safety monitoring, and regulatory classification. doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Kudos to @matthabusby.bsky.social for writing this much needed piece about challenging psychedelic experiences (& the CPE project - challengingpsychedelicexperiences.com) and their potential for extended difficulties. Including a quote from my good s'elf. statesofmind.com/psychedelic-...

Looking forward to give the first @SeedTalks event on parapsychology. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-phenom...