Hi there,

As summer makes its ever so gentle transition into autumn, we're celebrating the abundance of opportunities, offerings, and education coming our way.

In this month's announcements newsletter you'll find:
✨ News of our new vacancy at the Psychedelic Society
✨ Upcoming retreat dates from our psychedelic retreats partner
✨ Opportunities to get involved in psychedelic research
✨ Discounts for partner festivals and organisations
✨ Headlines from this month's psychedelic news

We're hiring!

As we continue to grow and develop, we are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic social media manager to join our team. We're looking for a strong storyteller who loves what we do and resonates with our mission of creating a world with a mature, integrated, and curious relationship to psychedelics and related practices. Applications are open now until 10 September.

Discount to LoveJam Campout

There are few communities in the UK with more heart than LoveJam. They host regular events and the Lovejam Campout is their biggest event of the year and an annual gathering of the tribe. A 4-day alcohol-free, family friendly, community focused, music, arts & wellbeing gathering for 1500 people, expect co-created vibrations of the highest calibre, world class music & a wonderfully loving, kind & accepting community - 7-11 Sept. You can find The Psychedelic Society there hosting a panel on the nature of the psychedelic experience too :)

They have kindly offered our community a 10% discount code to join. Just use code PSYCHSOC10 when you buy your tickets here.

Experience a mushroom retreat

Alalaho offer safe and legal psilocybin-assisted retreats in the Netherlands to open people to the wisdom and potential at the core of their being. Their retreat program includes exercises and approaches from the Western clinical model, somatic and transpersonal psychology, as well as from ancient wisdom traditions across different cultures and times.

There are new psilocybin retreats opening every day across the world and choosing one can be difficult. We partner with Alalaho because they truly understand the nature of psychedelics, offering not only the experience of the medicine but the personal guidance to prepare and to deeply integrate what you learn, over a nine month follow-up period, so you can make the lasting changes you need.

Their next retreats will take place on: October 18-22 (5-day retreat) & December 7-10 (4-day retreat)

To learn more you can also join one of their weekly live Q&A sessions (every Tuesday). Register here to receive the Zoom link.

Join London's co-living community

We're excited to be launching our partnership with &Soul, London's new conscious co-living space. This place is designed to be an experiment in living for those hungry for connection, creativity, and a more meaningful life in community. All under one roof. They offer fully equipped flats, with a flexible length of stay. Plus conscious events every day of the week, a gym, recording & art studios, event spaces, and saunas. They're finally welcoming first applications, as the building fully opens in autumn (Oct). They have 302 beautiful rooms available from £250 P/W inclusive of all amenities, events and bills.

Through our partnership, they are offering the Psychedelic Society community the following sign-up offer. Just list Psychedelic Society as your referral in your application:

3 - 5 months agreement - 1 week rent-free
6 - 8 months agreement - 2 weeks rent-free
9 - 11 months agreement - 3 weeks rent-free
1 year agreement - 1 month rent-free

The latest from our blog

DMT Research: Could the ‘Spirit Molecule’ help treat alcohol addiction?
A look at the ground-breaking work of a research group at University College London (UCL) that aims to understand how DMT's psychological benefits could transform brain activity to treat alcoholism, neurological disorders, and more.

Uniting Voices for Change: A Mass Lobby Against UK Drug Prohibition
An insider report on meeting activists, politicians, and journalists at Parliament Square on the 27th of June to discuss UK drug policy reform and the thousands of lives lost to the drug war.

Research opportunities

✨ Have you had a difficult or distressing psychedelic experience? This study from Brown University's Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab investigates difficult psychedelic experiences, how they might be better predicted, and the kinds of remedies and support that could be most helpful. Share your experience here.

✨ The same lab is also researching difficult and distressing meditation experiences and the kinds of lasting challenges and adverse effects that can result from meditation practice. Complete the online survey here.

✨ UCL Psychology and Language Sciences department is running a study specifically on Psychedelic Society events and how participants' experiences compare to those induced by psychedelic substances. Join the study.

✨ Kings College London is seeking people who have attended psychedelic integration groups and/or harm reduction sessions in a group setting for a qualitative online survey. Take the survey here.

Conducting a research study and looking for participants? Get in touch at lauren@psychedelicsociety.org.uk so we can share with the community

This month's roundup

Is a near-death experience like a DMT trip? One neurosurgeon experienced both.
MAPS reports on the dangers of psychedelic hype and social media on younger generations.
Contrary to the “fiery debates” seen in the medical applications of marijuana, Axios argues that psychedelic research is subject to little pushback.
The Times profiles conservative MP and former soldier, Crispin Blunt, who “says drug policy is blocking research into psychedelics as a treatment for depression”.
Blunt isn’t the only UK MP calling for psychedelic policy reform in a post-Brexit Britain - Veterans ‘failed’ by UK drug laws as SNP MP calls for magic mushrooms to treat PTSD reports Daily Record
A new report in Nature on the difference between ‘placebo group’ and ‘placebo control’ presents a case study in psychedelic microdosing — Szigeti et al. introduce the Correct Guess Rate Curve, “a statistical tool that can estimate the outcome of a perfectly blinded trial based on data from an imperfectly blinded trial.” They apply this tool to their earlier self-blinding microdosing trial dataset and conclude that “microdosing can be understood as active placebo.”

Regens Unite comes to London

You're invited to the very first edition of Regens Unite London, our friends who share our vision for a better future for people, communities and the environment. This a gathering; not a conference. A safe and brave space where we can meet each other and unite despite our different perspectives. Learn how to use new (crypto) currencies, use ChatGPT for your work, about the management of green spaces in this unique part of London, how to mint a digital collectable, take a guided nature walk or do some yoga and embodiment practices.

Join our membership community!

We fund our work in integration, education and harm reduction primarily through our membership program.

By becoming a member of The Psychedelic Society community, you get access to exclusive members-only events like the one above, a discount on events, and support the development of this alternative cultural space. Membership starts from just £5/month!