PhD @ UAB | Postdoc @ Linköping | Psychs & Psychosis & 🧘♀️- interdisciplinary | founder of @furthure707 & psychedelx | 🇺🇸 → Sweden
Linköping, Sweden
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Beliefs study launched! We have both a survey portion for people with a consistent meditation practice and/or psych use AND an arm for people attending either psych or meditation retreats
If you facilitate meditation or psychedelic retreats and want to help make research possible by simply sharing a flyer with your attendees hit me up! I can send you more info about the study design too.
The idea that psychs are in some way “non-specific amplifiers” is a popular idea, sure, but other than people being concerned about expectancy effects, what evidence is there that this is actually a thing?
To be clear, all you need to do to get the link is email [email protected] -- this sends an *automatic email* with the link. I know this is annoying but, it's institutional policy not to post links directly
Email [email protected] for a link to the survey
✨🧘🍄 New study 🍄🧘✨ Many people think that meditation & psychedelics might have similar effects. Our new study examines how beliefs & cognitive processes might be similar or different in consistent meditators versus psychedelic users
Share widely!
Haley Maria Dourron retweeted
Austin, TX & surrounding community:
We're testing the effects of psychedelics on brain function & cognition. This is not for mental health treatment, and there'll be several cognitive tasks (no lying on a couch or eyeshades), but you'll be supporting science! Please share!
Nordic countries in my experience highly stigmatize psychedelic research. I understand the concern with safety & not wanting to go all hype-y but I was literally proposing to measure a component of psychotic-like symptoms (along with some online task). It was not a hype-y study
Haley Maria Dourron retweeted
New episode with PsychonautWiki founder, McKenna Syndrome survivor, and drug effects systematizer queen @Josikinz
open.spotify.com/episode/6ta…
This is my favorite interview I've ever done on @Furthure707
open.spotify.com/episode/6Sm…
What happens when you try 253 substances, synthesize novel drugs, & find yourself in the grips of a serious addiction to novel dissociatives?
@nervewing, who has contributed the most @Erowid reports of any person, tells their story
open.spotify.com/episode/6Sm…
Why is it that there is a “psychedelic community?”
People don’t often discuss the cannabis community or dissociative or even empathogen community…what’s up with that?
Is there something unique about psychedelics that drives people to craft an identity around them?
I was thinking more along the lines of “psychedelic syndrome” in the 1960s
Psychedelic people despite the different factions seem to be a thing that has been documented quite a while
(Maybe not as extreme now as this article though)
bibliography.maps.org/biblio…
This was legit the most fun I’ve had in a while and I think we covered a lot of meaningful ground about dissociatives — there appeal, there misuse/abuse, and psychoanutics in general
Plus being edgewalkers by studying wasp 🐝
Just did another podcast interview that I am especially very very very excited about! Would love for all of you to listen when it comes out!
Huge shutout @Furthure707 @HDourron thanks for having me!
I’ve been attempting to start a longitudinal survey study with email reminders of people who attend psychedelic retreats in Sweden.
It’s leading me to believe that psychedelics might be the most stigmatized in Scandinavian out of any region in the western world? Am I wrong?
Basically, being told you can’t collect emails, even in a separate link. You can’t publicly advertise.
I’ve done online studies in the US before and never had this degree of push back
Haley Maria Dourron retweeted
I spoke with Peter Hendricks about his fascinating psilocybin for cocaine use disorder study, out today.
Aside from the impressively representative patient population and positive result, there was also a report of spontaneous orgasm!
Full interview (no paywall)...
Psilocybin for Cocaine Use Disorder: Peter Hendricks on a Trial Ten Years in the Making
psychedelicalpha.com/news/ps…
Why do people think some people develop odd beliefs from using psychedelics and some people don’t?
Seems a lot more complicated than just schizotypy-like traits
I have some ideas, but I am am curious about the what people might think
New furthure episode for those clinical trial nerds out there with @psybalazs
open.spotify.com/episode/5b7…
Plus, the placebo effect is legitimately cool and everyone should pay more attention to it 🙃
