Jules Evans
@philosojules.bsky.social
Director of Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project
Editor at www.ecstaticintegration.org
Editor at www.ecstaticintegration.org
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...
Sir Robert Edward Grant and The Architect
Is AI spiritually awakening or are LLMs leading us on a merry dance?
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June 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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.
Sometimes, even quite often, people encounter ‘entities’ on psychedelics, which may give them messages, heal them or sometimes seem to threaten them or cause them harm.
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June 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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-...
Go Faster or Slow Down; FREE Debate on Safest Next Steps for Psychedelics
A live debate between Jules Evans and Philippe Lucas, PhD, on how to best protect psychedelic consumers and promote public health.
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June 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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-...
Reposted by Jules Evans
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...
www.salon.com/2025/06/06/b...
"Bad trips" can have surprising benefits
Psychedelics can cause long-lasting challenging experiences. In certain settings, they can be transformative
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June 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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...
www.salon.com/2025/06/06/b...
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...
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...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
May 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
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...
All your friends are belong to us
AI bots urgently need to be taught therapeutic ethics
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May 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
Reposted by Jules Evans
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...
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...
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May 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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...
Another victim of ketamine addiction. www.ladbible.com/news/crime/e...
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
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May 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Another victim of ketamine addiction. www.ladbible.com/news/crime/e...
Reposted by Jules Evans
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...
What every psychedelic guide should know about fairies
Elf-lore 101
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May 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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...
Amazing paper on harms from ketamine use disorder from Celia Morgan's team at Exeter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Amazing paper on harms from ketamine use disorder from Celia Morgan's team at Exeter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
AI-generated videos as psychedelic experiences
Plus, responses to my NYT op-ed
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April 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
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...
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.
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April 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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, former MAPS veterans lobbyist, taking no prisoners in his analysis of what's wrong with the 'psychedelic movement' www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/jon-lubeck...
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’
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April 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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...
Wow the world's first underground degree. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...
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.
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April 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Wow the world's first underground degree. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...
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!
April 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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 working in the psychedelic industry. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/nine-thing...
Nine things you should know before entering the psychedelic industry
On psychedelic gatekeepers, and other challenges
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April 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Nine things you should know before working in the psychedelic industry. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/nine-thing...
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...
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.
cruxnow.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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...
Pronatalism makes NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/el...
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...
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April 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Pronatalism makes NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/el...
MAHA funder Ford Smith opens up about ketamine dependency and a psychotic break he had at Burning Man. doubleblindmag.com/is-ketamine-...
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.
doubleblindmag.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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...
A Wolf In New Age Clothing: Starseed beliefs, conspirituality, and a soft pathway to radicalization
Taken at face value, Starseed theology appears to fit within the strange, but generally seen-as-harmless, New Age milieu. But when we look deeper, undergirding Starseed beliefs are direct connections ...
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April 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Middlebury Centre on Terrorism develops my 2021 exploration of the far-right tendencies of the starseed movement. www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...
'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...
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.
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April 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
'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...
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...
April 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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...
April 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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...
Reposted by Jules Evans
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...
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.
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April 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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...