Steve Paulson

Exploring psychedelic experiences that seem wider than the brain.

A radical theory that pagan cults gave rise to early Christianity.

American writer Meghan O’Gieblyn on when the mind is alive.

Psychedelic treatment is helping patients make difficult emotional breakthroughs.

Just ask this religious scholar who took 73 high-dose LSD trips.

What’s the price of a sacred plant?

Psychoactive drugs have long been hailed as miracle cures. But you can only understand the paths they blaze through the mind if you’ve traveled them.

What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.

Suzanne O’Sullivan on what medical science is missing about mysterious illnesses.

With help from Freud, this neuropsychologist locates consciousness in choice.