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What are psychedelics? Psychedelics and Mental Health

The Psychedelic Renaissance promises to revolutionize mental health through the use of psychedelics, but what exactly are psychedelics? The relationship between psychedelics and mental health has been studied since the 1940s. As we discussed in our post on the Psychedelic Renaissance, the excess of uncontrolled recreational use and a campaign to discredit the cultural movement to which they were linked caused research on their effects on mental health to be abandoned in most universities.

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Your Brain on Psychedelics: How do psychedelics work?

Pharmacology and neuroscience of psilocybin, DMT, LSD, MDMA or mescaline. “When I first approached psychedelic drugs, I knew instantly that my life was changed.” So begins Your Brain with Psychedelics, by Genís Oña, psychologist and pharmacologist and researcher at ICEERS (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service). That change in his life, as a transcendental before and after, is one of the multiple themes explored in Your Brain with Psychedelics.

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The Psychedelic Renaissance, a guide to an essential movement

The Psychonaut Guides are now available in Amazon and Apple Books. The Essential Guide to the Psychedelic Renaissance, the first title that opens the book series, will introduce us to the exciting world of psychedelics by the hand of Antón Gómez-Escolar. This title is ideal whether you are approaching the Psychedelic Renaissance movement for the first time or you are passionate about this world, as it brings together the history, neuroscience, legality, therapeutic applications and harm reduction methods of the most promising psychedelic drugs for science.

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First three PsychonautGuides.com books available now

The first books of PsychonautGuides.com have been released. Psychonaut Guides launches a series of books with a scientific approach for those who want to explore and discover the exciting world of hallucinogens, their potential and applications as part of the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance. Opening this collection on the Psychedelic Renaissance, we have the book by Antón Gómez-Escolar, “Essential Guide to the Psychedelic Renaissance”, which presents the history, neuroscience, legality, therapeutic applications and harm reduction of the most promising psychedelic drugs for science, as an introduction to this revolution that is beginning to spread around the world.

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First PsychonautGuides.com titles to be released soon

In the coming weeks the first three books of the PsychonautGuides.com catalogue will be available. The launch will be made in conjunction with the PsychonautGuides.com website and the titles will be available in English and Spanish, as well as in full color or B&W versions. Digital versions of the books will available in Amazon, Google Books and many other selling channels. The first introductory book to the collection will be “Essential Guide to the Psychedelic Renaissance”, by Antón Gómez-Escolar.

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