James Fadiman

4 articles
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The Flow Genome Project: Mapping Ecstasis Across Navy SEALs, Silicon Valley, and Extreme Athletes

Something happened in American high-performance culture in the early 21st century that few people noticed until Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal documented it. Across seemingly unrelated domains — the military, Silicon Valley, extreme sports, and the psychedelic underground — elite performers had...

11 min · 2 researchers · 27 concepts
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Microdosing Psychedelics: The Nootropic Frontier Between Placebo and Neuroplasticity

In the sprawling landscape of cognitive enhancement, no practice generates more controversy, more enthusiasm, and more methodological confusion than microdosing — the regular ingestion of sub-perceptual doses of psychedelic compounds, typically psilocybin or LSD, for the purpose of enhancing...

13 min · 1 researchers · 23 concepts
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Microdosing: Science and Practice

Microdosing — the practice of consuming sub-perceptual doses of psychedelic substances on a regular schedule — has emerged as one of the most culturally visible and scientifically contested phenomena in the modern psychedelic renaissance. Popularized by James Fadiman's 2011 book The Psychedelic...

15 min · 1 researchers · 24 concepts
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Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: A Clinical Framework

After four decades of prohibition, psychedelic substances are returning to clinical medicine — not as counterculture relics but as the most significant breakthrough in psychiatric treatment since the development of SSRIs. The research is emerging from the world's most rigorous institutions —...

10 min · 3 researchers · 22 concepts