Psychedelic medicine is entering the mainstream, and what was once a dubious tie-dyed, barefoot 1960s counterculture idea is gradually becoming accepted by orthodox medical practitioners (see Gary Lachman, “Breaking Convention”, FT358:22-24). Some would like the treatment process to be a little less, well, trippy, though, and are developing new drugs to produce the beneficial effects without the psychedelia. However, other researchers believe the two are inseparable.
Psychedelics have long been used by traditional healers, from the ayahuasca rituals of the Amazon rainforest, to Lapland shamans nibbling fly agaric. It is not simple to separate therapeutic from ritual
