🍄 Into the Wild with Paul Stamets

👋 Welcome

Hey friends—hope you're feeling curious.

We’re diving into a kaleidoscope of psychedelic therapy, culture, and counterculture this week. Grab your (digital) pens—and your sense of wonder! ❤️

🔝 Weekly Highlights

• 🍄 Psychedelic Play Therapy – Treating depression through play + psychedelics? We're listening.
  

• 💰 Sleep/Awake – A new mind-bending psychedelic horror game from Spec Ops + Nine Inch Nails minds is on the way for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC in 2026.

🧬 Quick Hits

RESEARCH 🔬

• 🍄 Psilocybin Works, Antidepressants or Not
  New analysis shows psilocybin therapy benefits patients with or without recent antidepressant use. Read here
  

• 🧠 RIM Therapy Recreates the Trip
  A somatic therapy technique known as RIM may mimic aspects of psychedelic experiences—and achieve similar breakthroughs. Details here
  

• 💡 Clarity Through Altered States
  Researchers explore how non-ordinary states of consciousness may sharpen problem-solving and reduce mental fog. More here

POLICY 🏛️

• 🔄 North Carolina Reconsiders Psychedelics
  Lawmakers are weighing new legislation that could shift the state’s stance on psychedelic medicine. Update
  

• 🧾 Colorado Clears the Record
  Governor Polis signs law to pardon past psychedelic convictions—retroactively. Full story
  

• 🛑 Maine Blocks Decrim Push
  The state senate narrowly rejects a bill to decriminalize psilocybin after passing just last week. Read more
  

• 🎖️ Missouri Revives Psychedelic Bill for Veterans
  After a quiet period, a renewed push aims to offer psilocybin therapy to Missouri’s veterans. Details

CULTURE 🎭

• 💪 Weed + Workouts = Gains?
  Cannabis users are nearly 5x as likely to regularly exercise than eat fast food. Read the survey
  

• 🌿 Ayahuasca’s Divine Download
  Ayahuasca entity encounters are being linked to lasting religious belief changes… especially in men. Read more

🌈 Main Features

Paul Stamets just dropped his new book!

Paul Stamets is back, and this time he's guiding us into the woods. His new release, Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats, isn’t just a field guide—it’s a love letter to the living intelligence of fungi. Through over 500 full-color photos, this book captures the uncanny beauty of psilocybes in the wild: glistening caps, mycelial webs, spore prints like alien maps.

But it’s not just visuals. Stamets dives into ecology, foraging ethics, taxonomy, and terrain—arming citizen scientists and casual psychonauts with practical tools for respectful exploration. He weaves in commentary on cultural history, conservation, and the future of psychedelic medicine. He’s not just cataloging species—he’s inviting readers into a relationship.

Perfect for backpackers, therapists, and backyard mycophiles alike—this is less “coffee table” and more “sacred guidebook.” Read it, learn it, gift it to your favorite dirt-scraper.

Why You Can't Miss the Oregon Country Fair

Are you looking for a place that celebrates creativity, community, and the psychedelic spirit? A festival where music, art, and connection flow effortlessly?
Welcome to the Oregon Country Fair—one of the longest-running and most beloved festivals in the United States!

A True Cultural Treasure
The Oregon Country Fair is more than just an event—it’s a living piece of history, deeply rooted in the counterculture of the 1960s, and a celebration of the legacy of the Merry Pranksters. Led by Ken Kesey and immortalized in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, these rebels broadcast a new kind of consciousness. The Fair carries that same spirit today.

Affordable, Family-Friendly & Delicious
It’s one of the most budget-friendly fests around—and the food? Think kombucha taps, Thai curry bowls, and rainbow-colored vegan pastries. Kid-friendly too, if your little ones like parades and puppet shows more than mosh pits.

A Feast for the Senses

• 🎵 Music: Eclectic stages with every genre under the sun.
  

• 🎨 Art: From psychedelic pottery to patchwork pants, it's all here.
  

• 🍲 Food: Tastebud trips await—at real-world prices.
  

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community: Come for the crafts, stay for the kindred spirits.
  

• 🔥 Ritz Sauna: A forest hideaway with wood-fired steam and open-air showers. Total vibe reset.

Get There
It’s not just a fair—it’s a 50-year love letter to creative freedom. Get your tickets before it sells out.

💡 Secondaries

✨ Exploring Ibogaine/5-MeO-DMT as Treatment for PTSD in Veterans – An academic dive into entheogens for healing trauma.

🎁 Psychedelic Utility Belt

• 🎟️ Don’t Miss: Oregon Country Fair Tickets
  One of the most beloved psychedelic-friendly gatherings in the U.S. returns July 12–14. Expect art, music, nature, and pure counterculture magic tucked into the forests of Veneta, Oregon. Tickets are moving fast—lock yours in and prepare to get weird in the woods. Grab ‘em!

• 📚 Resource Drop: Find Psychedelic Clinical Trials Near You
  Looking to access psychedelic therapy before broader legalization? Our curated map helps you discover studies involving psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, ketamine, and more—run by trusted research institutions. Explore the map here

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