Microdosing

When I was growing up, coaches led sports teams and helped improve athletic performance. Now there are coaches in the business world and other areas. One is psychedelics, which have exploded as a form of self-improvement. For nearly a year as a certified Third Wave coach, I’ve learned that there is a massive need to

Dr. Kelan Thomas recently wrote about the risks of repeated microdosing for developing valvular heart disease that piqued the interest of friends and colleagues at Third Wave for which I’m a certified coach. One of them, Gregory Ferenstein, co-authored an article that critiqued this hypothesis. His conclusion: there simply isn’t enough data to suggest that

A few months ago, I attended a retreat hosted by an ecologist named Andy Sudbrock who lives outside of Nashville, Tenn. One of the amazing things we discovered during a walk through the forest was that trees are social creatures who communicate and cooperate with each other in ways that can teach humans lessons. This

As someone who grew up in the 1980s a member of Generation X, I was under the assumption that overdosing on psychedelics could be fatal. Another childhood memory was the fear of permanent damage from these illegal drugs. But the fact is that there has never been a fatality based purely on LSD and a

Research into the efficacious benefits of psychedelics moved into the medical mainstream with the airing of a Netflix documentary series based on Michael Pollan’s 2018 book, “How to Change Your Mind.” The brother of actress Tracy Pollan, who is married to actor Michael J. Fox, wrote eloquently about the power of psychedelics in transforming psychiatric

A psychedelic experience transports people beyond the limitations of their physical or mental space along the road to a place of pure joy and insight that opens possibilities. In short, it’s an elevated state of consciousness that also could be spiritual. While these experiences are usually associated with taking substances, there are actually many ways

One of the extraordinary benefits of high-dose psychedelic experiences derived from macrodosing is healing ancestral trauma. We all inherit cellular memory, as well as certain tendencies and fears, that are passed down generationally. It’s in our DNA or bloodline and part of our respective heritages. For example, I learned about some criminal behavior that was

It was recently revealed that Will Smith drank Ayahuasca more than 14 times and felt like he tasted freedom. The actor learned how to surrender, listen and practice self-love – all valuable insights that can be gained through an intentional psychedelic experience. The power of this substance is that it removes ego from an individual’s

Johns Hopkins research exploring innovative treatments of mental illnesses using psilocybin therapy represents a significant step toward moving psychedelics into the mainstream. These efforts, in collaboration with Yale and New York University, involve the creation of a psychedelics psychiatric program featuring the most cutting edge work being done in in psychiatry right now. Psychiatrists are actually