One of the greatest spiritual mysteries focuses on the pineal gland 'the seat of the soul' according to Descartes, the third eye of eastern traditions, the gland that secretes DMT and which seems to ...

A new study from Imperial College London has found significant overlap between the experiences reported by subjects who have had near-death experiences, and volunteers administered with a powerful ...

In Greek mythology it was Charon, the grim ferryman, who paddled souls across the rivers Styx and Acheron to the underworld. But the real-life ferryman transporting our human souls between the realms ...

Popular psychedelic DMT has been found naturally occurring in a mammalian brain, researchers have announced. The findings come from the University of Michigan's Michigan Medicine, where scientists ...

Submitted photo Jon Dean of Youngstown, former guitarist with the indie band Asleep, is earning his doctorate degree while researching the effects of the naturally produced compound dimethyltryptamine ...

In the past few years, thrill-seekers from Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond have been travelling to South America to take part in so-called Ayahuasca retreats. Their goal: to partake in a brewed ...

The authors of a recent study (Timmermann et al., 2018) argue that what people experience under the influence of DMT provides a model of what people undergo during near-death experiences. Although ...