Once exclusive to Western counterculture, psychedelics have increasingly drawn the attention of medical researchers, corporations, and politicians. In April, Donald Trump signed an executive order—apparently inspired by podcaster Joe Rogan—to promote research on psychedelic substances like ibogaine or psilocybin. With the latest…
It’s time to live like mystics
I spent the pandemic lamenting things I could not do — no restaurants, no movie theaters, no museums. I was excited when I got to go back to my favorite Mexican place, the neighborhood movie theater and the Metropolitan Museum…