Rachael is a writer and environmental consultant who advises nonprofits and foundations on climate change. With an expertise in tropical forests, Rachael has conducted fieldwork in the Brazilian and Ecuadorian Amazon, Borneo, Uganda and elsewhere. After almost a decade in climate policy, Rachael has turned her attention to the spiritual implications of our current ecological crises. Rachael stumbled into psychedelics as a participant in a psilocybin clinical trial for major depression. Her writing excavates the potential risks, rewards, and societal implications of medicalizing and commercializing mysticism. Her work interrogates the intersection of the mystical and the moral, and envisions the role of non-ordinary states of consciousness in current and future forms of religion. Rachael explores these themes as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions.
September 20, 2016
Through social media, student exchange, and American pop culture, perceptions of marijuana & psychedelics are slowly changing in Hong Kong.
September 22, 2016
Legalization should mean everyone has the right to grow, not just some people or corporations with money looking to profit.
September 28, 2016
Canada has amended its policies on heroin to allow doctors to prescribe the drug to patients suffering severe addiction.
September 30, 2016
As states continue to legalize or decriminalize marijuana for both medical and recreational use, more and more students face confusing regulations.
October 17, 2016
"Too many people just see ayahuasca as a sales product and that’s a problem, where it becomes commodified."
October 21, 2016
"On Tuesday, you will be the only person in the U.S. who will be taking psilocybin legally.”
October 25, 2016
Johns Hopkins and Yale Schools of Medicine reviewed dozens of studies and recent trials on psychedelic compounds.
October 27, 2016
Five states have full legalization initiatives on the ballot. Four will be voting on medical cannabis. Here is a rundown of what each initiative aims to do.
November 9, 2016
A quick look at what happened with cannabis voting in all 9 states.
November 10, 2016
We talked with Michael Verdon, the artist behind the burning temple at Catharsis on the Mall