Sam Woolfe

After ingesting mescaline, Aldous Huxley wrote that he saw “a bunch of flowers shining with their own inner light and all but quivering under the pressure of the significance with which they were charged”.

When it comes to the belief in plant spirits, there may be a tendency to exoticise indigenous beliefs and be biased towards them over other religious beliefs one is exposed to or familiar with.

The UK experienced an unprecedented heatwave last month, along with the rest of Europe.

Being passionate and enthusiastic about psychedelics – or even evangelical about them – can sometimes lead to seeing their influence everywhere.

Home Sweet Home (1982), a television film directed by Mike Leigh, part of the BBC’s Play for Today series, is one of Leigh’s bleakest films.

I’m a big fan of horror, as well as the subgenre of ‘psychedelic horror’, in which the psychedelic experience or ‘psychedelic’ aesthetic is used to unsettle and terrify viewers.

In a blog post from a couple of years ago, I described my first experience with high ventilation breathwork – a form known as Psychedelic Breath, based on the principles of Holotropic Breathwork, developed by the Czech psychiatrist and LSD researcher Stan…

Yoga nidra (or yogic sleep) is a technique for inducing a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping.

I recently rewatched Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve), adapted from Ted Chiang’s novella Story of Your Life, having first watched it five years ago.

The embellishment of memories is a widespread phenomenon.