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Pathways for September 13, 2026: Psychedelics and the Counterculture of Aging – Abbie Rosner

In Psychedelics and the Counterculture of Aging, Abbie Rosner writes about how older adults are finding healing, spiritual deepening, and peace with mortality through intentional psychedelic journeying. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for August 16, 2026: Psychedelics and Human Potential – Carlos Warter

In Psychedelics and Human Potential, Dr. Carlos Warter explores the medicinal and therapeutic properties of psychedelics, and how they can help us to grow as individuals and as a culture. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for August 10, 2025: Embrace Pleasure – Dee Dee Goldpaugh

In Embrace Pleasure, author Dee Dee Goldpaugh explores healing sexuality, finding wholeness, and reconnecting with pleasure via psychedelics. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for June 22, 2025: The Psychedelic Reawakening – Anton Gomez-Escolar

Anton Gomez-Escolar, author of The Psychedelic Reawakening: How Psilocybin, MDMA, Ketamine, LSD, and DMT Are Changing Lives, is an expert on the current psychedelic renaissance and their potential to treat addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma, and even neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Pathways for May 11, 2025: Psychedelic Medicine at the End of Life – Richard Louis Miller

Psychedelic therapy is opening new portals of transformation, and it can be especially valuable when approaching the end of life. Dr. Richard Louis Miller’s book Psychedelic Medicine at the End of Life offers tools for overcoming end-of-life distress. Read More & Listen »

Pathways March 16, 2025: Seeding Consciousness – Tricia Eastman

Drawing on her studies with Indigenous elders, Tricia Eastman’s book Seeding Consciousness provides a blueprint for responsible and effective use of entheogens to transform pain and trauma into profound connections with ourselves, nature, and the spirit world. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for September 22, 2024: Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity – David Jay Brown

Humankind is confronted with an almost insurmountable array of challenges. In Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity David Jay Brown has assembled a collection of interviews with many brilliant experts who are working on outside-the-box solutions, looking to psychedelic-inspired visions of the future to lead humanity through these crises. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for August 25, 2024: Ecstasy as Medicine – Jonathan Robinson

Jonathan Robinson shares how MDMA therapy has been proven to help people successfully heal from trauma, restore love in their relationships, and overcome their psychological challenges. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for March 31, 2024: Stanislav Grof, LSD Pioneer – Brigitte Grof

Stanislav Grof is a pioneer in psychedelic research and transpersonal psychology. He started work with LSD believing it was simply pharmacology and then went on to discover the perinatal, transpersonal, and archetypal levels of the psyche. The book features an extended interview with Stan Grof, exploring in great depth the full arc of his lifelong research in his own words. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for March 24, 2024: Coma and Near Death Experience – Alan Pearce

Examining the beautiful and disturbing experiences of those who have survived comas, Alan and Beverley Pearce explore the mysterious levels of consciousness this near-death experience unlocks. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for February 18, 2024: The Spiritual Meaning of the Sixties – Tobias Churton

Embarking on a profound search for the spiritual meaning behind the massive social upheavals of the 1960s, Tobias Churton turns a kaleidoscopic lens on religious and esoteric history, industry, science, philosophy, art, and social revolution. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for October 22, 2023: Psanctum – Tom Hatsis

Tom Hatsis is the Executive Director of Psanctum, a nonprofit psychedelic education and harm reduction organization in Portland, OR. Psanctum Thrift is a project of Psanctum, which is the first non-profit thrift store to align itself with, and contribute to, the growing … Read More & Listen »

Pathways for August 13, 2023: Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches – Mike Marinacci

For thousands of years, human beings around the world have used hallucinogenic plants and fungi to alter consciousness and connect with the Divine. Author Mike Marinacci writes about the history of such practices and the revival of entheogen-based spirituality in North America. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for June 18, 2023: Swimming in the Sacred – Rachel Harris

The new book Swimming in the Sacred by Rachel Harris documents the longstanding underground use and study of psychedelics by women, dating back to the time of the Eleusinian Mystery Schools of ancient Greece. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for June 4, 2023: War in the Hearts of Men – Eli Coberly

Eli Coberly’s book War in the Hearts of Men identifies and interprets the historical ideologies that suppressed the feminine and details the impact of the Maya culture on the present. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for Jan. 29, 2023: Psychedelic History and Culture – Thomas Hatsis

Thomas Hatsis co-directs Psanctum, a non-profit education and psychedelic harm reduction organization in Portland, OR. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for Jan. 15, 2023: Psychedelic Wisdom – Richard Louis Miller

Over the past decades, mental health professionals, entrepreneurs and celebrities have opened up about their bold life-changing experiences with psychedelics that led to personal healing and success. In the book Psychedelic Wisdom, Richard Miller has gathered together their stories. Read More & Listen »

Pathways for Jan. 1, 2023: How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World – Stephen Gray

Stephen Gray is the editor of the new book, How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out. The wisdom of Indigenous peoples along with reverence for the Divine Feminine, combined with the power of psychedelic mind-expanding agents, can help us enact a radical shift in consciousness and heal our world’s collective disconnection from Spirit. Read More & Listen »

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