When ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson first tried 5-MeO-DMT — also called “the toad” — he said it knocked him off his feet, profoundly changing his life. I tried to explain it to some people, to my wife, I don’t have the words to explain it. So when an email landed in my inbox with the subject line “I’m a Facilitator of 5-MeO-DMT / Toad,” it was an irresistible invitation to slide down the rabbit hole. “One of the first things I thought after trying 5-MeO-DMT was, This is a cure for depression and PTSD,” says Lee. Griffiths’s rigorous academic examination of psychedelic states has been instrumental in the creation of the newly formed Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research.

Source: Forbes February 02, 2020 14:48 UTC