Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype
As we move past a phase of “partial eclipse” by psychedelic hype, this critical field is finally well-situated to explore the full spectrum of psychedelic effects.

You will be surprised I’ve been through all the experiences described in this post, and that I’m still alive to tell you about them.
Activists within today’s adoptee rights movement are working to establish a right to end a person’s own adoption.
In adoption, we rarely consider the constraints on autonomy that often preclude meaningful choice.
To insinuate that it is simple to relinquish a child for adoption diminishes the magnitude of the deep loss for the first/birth mother and the adoptee.
Relinquishing a child for adoption is an alternative to parenting that child, not to carrying a pregnancy to term.
Justice Coney Barrett’s remarks reveal a cluelessness about the human condition and the meaning of bearing a child and then placing a newborn for adoption.