Today is publication day for my book, Shamanism: The Timeless Religion. To celebrate, here are some of my striking clips of shamanic rituals that I came across while working on the book:

📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to [email protected] 🌊

Claustrum!

"Spatiotemporal asymmetries on brain energy landscape uncover system entrapment related to depression severity" researchsquare.com/article/rs-731…

Robin Carhart-Harris Is this one of the two or three? academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/2… "Mindset prior to dosing, and spiritual experiences and perceptual shifts during dosing were identified as possible predictors of treatment trajectory [...] while treatment expectations did not influence outcomes."

Single Treatment With MM120 (Lysergide) in Generalized Anxiety Disorder jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Musical Chess teaches toddlers and big kids with hands-on fun greenvilleonline.com/story/upstatep…

"We are not anti-psychedelics; we just want historical accuracy." Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/28…

Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome? Then check out our new preprint, lead by Francis Normand with a stellar team showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Peep the 🧵

New Imaging Neuroscience from Brandon Taraku: Modulation of functional network co-activation pattern dynamics following ketamine treatment in major depression direct.mit.edu/imag/article/d…

How does energy keep us alive? Our bodies are resistive energetic circuits where electrons flow from food→oxygen in our mitochondria. It's only through energy resistance (éR) - like electrical resistance - that transformation of energy into life is possible. The Energy

🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging. 👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s4159… #Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging

one of the coolest works I've ever had the joy of being a part of! hats off to Parker on this thought-provoking piece.

On the second anniversary of Roland Griffiths' death, I'm taking the opportunity to reflect on the value of scientific curiosity and the virtue of constant curiosity about life in general that he seemed to me to so consistently embody.