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.
December 14, 2016
Here's some integrative antidepressant approaches that have low or no side effects and won't cost you an arm and a leg.
December 15, 2016
So much of the conversation surrounding sex, like that surrounding drugs, is fear-based and chock full of negativity.
December 19, 2016
It’s hard to imagine Trump & Sessions stuffing the toothpaste back in the tube, but remember drug prohibition is a lucrative business.
December 20, 2016
Over the past few years, psychedelic societies have begun popping up all over the world. We interviewed some of the pioneers. First stop: USA.
December 21, 2016
Many people in today’s neoliberal capitalist society feel deeply confused and dissatisfied at the suggestion that the meaning of life is material accumulation and consumption. It seems more and more people are asking, “Is this it?” And of course, it isn’t; there is more to life.
December 22, 2016
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
December 23, 2016
Here's some tips for having a transformative conversation over the holidays.
December 24, 2016
I had not realized that this was a mushroom chocolate given to me as I was sitting there on his lap
January 3, 2017
Being a normal person who uses drugs has given me courage to accept those things I can’t change—namely, my past.
January 5, 2017
A research program was seeking volunteers with a spiritual background to ingest a hallucinogen.