EditorialMembers of the Zambian rock band Witch, clockwise from top left: Patrick Mwondela, Nico Mauskoviç, Jacco Gardner, Charlie Garmendia, Stefan Lilov, Jagari Chanda and JJ Whitefield in New York, Oct. 12, 2022. (Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times)
EditorialA room at Entheon is dedicated to psychedelic relics, at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Allyson and Alex Grey’s interfaith church and arts organization, in Wappinger, N.Y., May 3, 2023. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
EditorialA room at Entheon is dedicated to psychedelic relics, at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Allyson and Alex Grey’s interfaith church and arts organization, in Wappinger, N.Y., May 3, 2023. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
EditorialA room at Entheon is dedicated to psychedelic relics, at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Allyson and Alex Grey’s interfaith church and arts organization, in Wappinger, N.Y., May 3, 2023. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
EditorialThe psychedelic-themed bathroom at Pinyon, which includes felt frog posters, black light, and a speaker play frog chirps, Ojai, Calif., Dec. 17, 2022. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times)
EditorialThe psychedelic-themed bathroom at Pinyon, which includes felt frog posters, black light, and a speaker play frog chirps, Ojai, Calif., Dec. 17, 2022. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times)
EditorialA rendering of psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in?Baltimore, May 6, 2021. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialMeow Wolf?s Convergence Station, where 70 connected rooms and exhibits lead viewers through a psychedelic dreamscape created by scores of artists, in Denver, July 22, 2022. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: César Quevedo, Alejandro Forero, Eblis álvarez, Maria Valencia and Mauricio Ramirez, the live Meridian Brothers band, in Bogota, Colombia, on July 18, 2022. (Juan Jose Ortiz Arenas/The New York Times)
EditorialA meditation session for DoubleBlind staff at founder Shelby Hartman's house in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, June 23, 2022. (Michael Tyrone Delaney/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Rachel Yehuda, the director of mental health at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx, at Central Park in New York, June 3, 2022. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Rachel Yehuda, the director of mental health at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx, at Central Park in New York, June 3, 2022. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
EditorialNigel McCourry, a former Marine who took part in a clinical trial using the psychedelic drug MDMA, paired with therapy, to treat his PTSD, at his home in Portland, Ore., Feb. 21, 2022. (Amanda Lucier/The New York Times)
EditorialA psilocybin mushroom tea ceremony during a psychedelic therapy retreat at Missions Within, on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico, March 19, 2022. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
EditorialA view from the sunset bar of the Hotel Catalina Beach Resort, the setting of a 1960s retreat organized by psychedelic drug apostleTimothy Leary, in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, April 25, 2022. (Adrian Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialA mushroom of the genus Psilocybe, which contains the psychoactive chemical psilocybin, in Nanaimo, Britsh Columbia, Canada, Feb. 18, 2021. (Alana Paterson/The New York Times)
EditorialA mushroom of the genus Psilocybe, which contains the psychoactive chemical psilocybin, in Nanaimo, Britsh Columbia, Canada, Feb. 18, 2021. (Alana Paterson/The New York Times)
EditorialDavid Bronner, left, and Michael Bronner, grandsons of the founder of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, at the company’s headquarters in Vista, Calif., Jan. 28, 2022. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
EditorialFor some couples on the brink of divorce, taking the illegal psychedelic drug was a last resort — but it ended up being the only thing that worked. (Shuhua Xiong/The New York Times)
EditorialEven with cause for concern, psychedelic retreats in countries like Costa Rica and Jamaica, as well as in the United States, have been popping up for more than a decade. (John Hersey/The New York Times)
EditorialJuliana Mercer, a Marine Corps veteran who helps connect former service members to psychedelic therapies, at home in San Diego, Oct. 6, 2021. (Damon Casarez/The New York Times)
EditorialJuliana Mercer, a Marine Corps veteran who helps connect former service members to psychedelic therapies, at home in San Diego, Oct. 6, 2021. (Damon Casarez/The New York Times)
EditorialDepections of psychedelic mushrooms at the office of Dr. William Richards at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, May 6, 2021. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialRick Doblin, director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a nonprofit research group, at his home in Belmont, Mass. on April 9, 2021. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialA lab worker harvests mushrooms from the genus Psylocibe at Numinus in Nanaimo, Britsh Columbia, Canada, on Feb. 18, 2021. (Alana Paterson/The New York Times)
EditorialJesse Gould, a former Army Ranger and founder of Heroic Hearts Project, a nonprofit group that raises money to send veterans to psychedelic retreats, at the Soltara Healing Center in Costa Rica, Dec. 6, 2019. (Adam Ferguson/The New York Times)