Season 2 • Episode 7
LatestExploring the history and use of psychedelic plants. Psychedelica examines; Sacred Healing ,Integrating Shamanic, Wisdom, Treating Illness with Plant Medicines, Set, Setting, & Psychotropic Experiments, Expanding Human Consciousness, Shadow Side of Psychedelics, Indigenous Medicine of the Mind, and The Holy Mushroom Theory. Psychedelica is an original series streamed on Gaia. 2018
Production
Hypnotic fractal visuals that'll make your sober friends jealous
Writing
Terence McKenna soundbites delivered with straight-faced reverence
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gaia's entire brand exists in the lucrative intersection of wellness bros, Burning Man retirees, and people who unironically use 'vibration' as a personality trait.
The 'Holy Mushroom Theory' episode references Gordon Wasson's 1957 Life magazine article—the same piece that accidentally launched Western psychedelia and got R. Gordon Wasson recruited by the CIA for MKUltra-adjacent research. Small world!
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