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"We're seeing converging evidence that not having access to sensation is often a predictor of poor mental health vulnerability. Maintaining access to sensation in the face of distress is a really nice indicator that you're going to be dynamic and resilien

Dear Mr. Trump and Mr. Kennedy, Now, the real work begins. At the end of August, when you, Mr. Kennedy, dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Mr. Trump, a coalition of strange bedfellows was formed, many heads exploded, and a new acronym was i

Happy Halloween! Welcome back to The Trip Report, a production of Beckley Waves. In this episode, we're joined by Lucia Huang, Co-Founder and CEO of Osmind, a mental health startup that seeks to transform psychiatry by supporting clinicians with a novel t

Next week we are publishing a podcast conversation with Shamil Chandaria-a former advisor to Google DeepMind and a research fellow at Imperial College London Centre for Psychedelic Research and Oxford University's Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishi

Over the last few months, we've been exploring the hypothetical clinic of the future, focusing on how emerging treatment modalities like psychedelics, transcranial-focused ultrasound, metabolic therapies, and relational practices can synergistically impro

In 1992, Democratic strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid!" as the guiding principle for Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. The pithy phrase conveyed the importance voters placed on economic issues in ligh

Throughout writing these dispatches over the last few years, my mental model of the psychedelic space has been underwritten by the assumption that then MAPS, now Lykos Therapeutics, had FDA approval in the bag. As a close observer/participant, it is humbl

In 1914, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, set off World War I. But to say this was the "cause" of World War I would be a gross mischaracterization. Leading up to this event, Europe was undergoing a period of increasin

"What you resist, persists." -Carl Jung If you read this newsletter, you are likely picking up on the scent of emerging frontiers or New Paradigms across a variety of subdisciplines-neuroscience, psychology, metabolic science, contemplative practice, and

"Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base." -John Bowlby Last time, we introduced the idea of The Clinic of the Future and its four focus areas in addressing mental, emotional, and-for lack of a better term-spiritual health