They were scientists and writers in the ’40s and ’50s, mystics and musicians in the ’60s and ’70s, neo-psychedelic counter-culturalists in the ’80s and ’90s. And in the 2010s, they’re back — as ...

The first time that I took LSD, I accepted three and a half tabs on my tongue from a man dressed up in a monkey suit. Despite the hot summer weather, I raided the winter wardrobe of the house I was ...

During his appearance on CNN's New Year's Eve Live With Andy Cohen & Anderson Cooper, Diplo admitted that he was tripping on LSD on live TV. "What’s the most conventional place that you’ve done LSD?" ...

It’s no secret that LSD causes vivid hallucinations, altered states of consciousness, one-ness with the universe, and a host of other psychedelic effects. But ever since the trippy chemical was ...

The brains of subjects lying awake with their eyes closed, under a placebo (left) and the drug LSD (right), are seen when being examined using a functional MRI machine. Reuters Scientists for the ...

Diplo has admitted he was tripping on LSD during his appearance on CNN’s special New Year’s Eve Live broadcast. The popular music producer and DJ, 46, who was in Los Angeles to perform three New ...

Diplo was “tripping” on LSD while appearing on CNN’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast Tuesday night. The DJ, 46, stunned the show’s co-hosts, Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, as he made the admission ...

Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...

I n the 1930s, the married anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead had seen themselves as scientists seeking to expand the accepted limits of “normal” human behavior, communication, and ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 was synthesized in a Swiss laboratory in 1938. Early researchers called it “psychotomimetic” because it caused psychosis akin to schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the British ...

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