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In This Issue
- When the Heart Breaks Open: Grief, Healing, and the Sacred Path by Angela Ward
- After losing her daughter Sofia to a fatal heart defect at six months old, nurse Angela Ward carried grief that talk therapy and time couldn't fully resolve. Years later, a ceremonial 5-MeO-DMT experience cracked open something unreachable, allowing her to pour love directly into the deepest places of her pain. That single session reshaped her understanding of grief, love, and healing. It also ignited a mission: Ward went on to co-found psychedelic nursing organizations, open ketamine clinics, and launch training programs, dedicating her career to bringing safe, skilled psychedelic care to other bereaved parents.
- Midnight Water: A Psychedelic Memoir by Katherine MacLean
- In chapter one of Midnight Water, Katherine MacLean arrives at the hospital bracing herself for a transformation she cannot fully prepare for. At her sister Rebecca's bedside, she holds her through a final burst of pain and agitation, feeling an overwhelming flow of love pass between them. Rebecca dies just after midnight, having seemingly waited for permission to go. In the aftermath, MacLean performs small, tender rituals, and is haunted by a primal sense of absence, as though an ancient part of her brain is counting the tribe and coming up one short.
- The Psychedelic Nature of Dying: A Hospice Nurse’s View of Cannabis, Consciousness, and the End of Life by Sherri Mack
- With decades of bedside experience, hospice nurse Sherri Mack reveals that dying is a profound shift in consciousness, often resembling a psychedelic experience. She illustrates this through the story of a terminal cancer patient whose suffering was dramatically eased by cannabis oil when conventional pain management had failed. Mack explores how cannabinoids can address multiple symptoms simultaneously, while emerging research on psilocybin-assisted therapy shows promise for existential distress. Plant medicines, when used responsibly, can help patients approach death with greater comfort, clarity, and peace.
- Running the River with Kathryn Tucker by John C. Peterson
- Kathryn Tucker is a pioneering end-of-life rights attorney who has spent nearly four decades fighting for the dying. After arguing before the Supreme Court and helping legalize medical aid in dying across multiple states, she sees the current finally moving in her favor. Tucker is on the verge of making psilocybin-assisted therapy available to terminally ill patients—a tool she believes fills the last gap in palliative care by relieving existential suffering that no medication has ever touched. After years of paddling against federal resistance, the water is beginning to move with her.
- Unpacking the GRIEFcase: From Baggage to Beauty by Mia Cara Cosco
- As society's understanding of mental health deepens, psychedelics are emerging as a powerful tool for processing grief and end-of-life anxiety. Research on psilocybin shows significant reductions in prolonged grief disorder and sustained relief from death-related anxiety in cancer patients, with many describing their sessions as among life's most meaningful experiences. Author Mia Cara Cosco draws on both the science and her own experience of losing her mother at seven, presenting a five-step GRIEF methodology—Gather, Rage, Introspection, Entheogens, Fearless—as a modern framework for moving through loss toward acceptance.
- Don't Fear the Reaper by Adam Butler
- In this excerpt from Butler’s Psychedelic Integration Field Guide, Adam Butler makes a bold claim: that deep spiritual practice with psychedelics, meditation, and shadow work can strip death of its power entirely. Through DMT journeys, encounters with past lives, future selves, and divine intelligence, Butler arrived at an unshakeable conviction that consciousness doesn't die, it transmutes. And this isn't wishful thinking or borrowed doctrine. It’s hard-won, experiential knowing. Butler’s message is clear: stop white-knuckling your way through life terrified of the inevitable, and start living like someone who knows what's actually on the other side.
- Artist Showcase: Eileen Hall
- Eileen Hall's paintings inhabit the luminous threshold where nature, consciousness, and transformation meet, her dreamlike landscapes a reflection of the deeper self through color, symbol, and atmosphere. Following the death of her father in 2008, the forests, caves, and rivers of Ecuador became her teachers, revealing nature as both a mirror and portal into the psyche. For this Death Issue, her work carries a quiet, radical message: that grief, like any journey, can open us to beauty, interconnectedness, and renewal, and that light does not disappear in darkness. It simply waits within it.
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About Psychedelic Pathways Magazine
Psychedelic Pathways explores the intersection of two desires that many humans share: to alter perception of the world in which they live, and to stay safe while doing so.
You've heard them: whispers about the healing power of psychedelics, how they've helped others rewrite old narratives, dissolve fear, or reconnect with hidden parts of themselves.
You've also heard words of warning: stories of psychedelic experiments gone awry, causing real harm to real people.
Add to this the very real chance that what you've been told about psychedelics over your lifetime is untrue.
We offer stories, research, and foundational knowledge to help you make informed decisions.
We give you thought-provoking, accurate, and deeply personal perspectives from courageous seekers that meet you wherever you are on your path.
Everything on our pages is crafted with care to engage your mind and spirit.
We’re not here to push one way of thinking.
Your journey is yours, and we respect that.
Because the decision to engage with any mind-altering substance is, ultimately, yours alone.
Our contributors create for people like you, who know there is more to learn in the realm of psychedelics than what they've been taught.
In the pages of Psychedelic Pathways we're reminded that change is close at hand.
If you're brave enough to dive in, we’re thrilled to have you.
Category: Wellness & Meditation
Publisher: Psychedelic Pathways Magazine
Published: Bi-monthly
Language: English
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