Schultes – The Father of Ethnobotany

Schultes – The Father of Ethnobotany

by | Apr 19, 2010 | Research

Director Emeritus of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, died on April 10 at the age of 86. Schultes was born in Boston and obtained his undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degree at Harvard. Widely hailed as the “Father of Ethnobotany,” he...

Spiritual Effects of Psilocybin

Spiritual Effects of Psilocybin

by | Jan 2, 2010 | Research

A follow-up to a 2006 Johns Hopkins study involving psilocybin, the active substance in “magic mushrooms”, found that the substantive spiritual effects produced by psilocybin were beneficial to participants interviewed more than a year later. The second paper,...