Three Weeks Down Under: My Mind Medicine Australia Psychedelic Lecture Tour
I have just come back from a 3-week lecture tour of South-Eastern Australia supporting the cause of the charity Mind Medicine Australia (MMA).
Professor David Nutt’s Lecture Tour – November 2022
Mind Medicine Australia was delighted that Professor David Nutt, Head of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, could come to Australia for 3 weeks in November 2022.
Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia: Zinevara’s Story with Changa and MDMA
In this blog series, we are sharing some of the healing stories from our recent book: Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia. In this blog, we share the story of Zinevara and her experiences with Changa and MDMA.
Dr David Gaskell CHE writes a letter in response to Vanessa
Dr David Gaskell CHE responds heartily to Vanessa's Letter and shares his experience as a doctor.
Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia: John’s Experience with MDMA, Psilocybin and Ayahuasca
In this blog, we share the story of Maree and her experiences with psilocybin and LSD.
Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia: Maree’s Story with Psilocybin and LSD
In this blog, we share the story of Maree and her experiences with psilocybin and LSD.
Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia: Kerry’s Healing with DMT
I gave up all my physical addictions and released my negative and destructive behaviours. I started yoga and Vipassana meditation, which developed my feelings of connection to source. I started to eat nutritious, whole foods and my health has drastically improved.
Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia: Charlotte’s Experience with Psilocybin
During the summer of 2019, I once again found myself searching for answers. I was visiting Joshua Tree in the United States on a road trip I had planned with friends to see a band tour concert.
Granny’s Trips by Kerry Soorley: How Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies saved my life
“Trauma by omission” as Gabor Mate calls it, was my childhood. I grew up feeling abandoned, rejected and with so much self-loathing and shame from the earliest of times and my memories have always been that I have been on a self-destructive personal path.
A message from Dr Simon Longstaff AO
Few measures better reveal the character of society than its approach to those who suffer.
What legacy would you like to leave? Speech by Mark Turner MLA to the NT Parliament on Weds 18 May 2022
Today, I would like to ask the people in this room a simple question: What legacy would you like to leave when your time in parliament ends? I ask this question because, as parliamentarians, one of our key priorities is the health and well-being of the people in our electorate.
If the Medicine Works Shouldn’t We All Have Access to it? A Recent Poll of Australians Says Yes We Should By Scott Leckie and Tania de Jong AM
The painful COVID-era will fade but it will never be forgotten. This unanticipated period will be remembered for many things - death, suffering, economic and social disruptions and words like lockdown, iso, quarantine, social distancing, Zoom, omicron…
Social Media Attacks and Ethical Issues in the Psychedelic Sector – Why can’t we all get on together for the greater good? By Peter Hunt AM
Tania and I started Mind Medicine Australia three years ago because we wanted to help people who are suffering from mental illness, particularly treatment resistant mental illness.
Shadow Work and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies by Nigel Denning
Shadow work is a term coined by Carl Jung, the Swiss Psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud. It refers to working with all the aspects of the mind that are obscured or hidden from view. When we gaze up into the night sky we are often met by the glow of the moon.
Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia: Daniel’s Experience with DMT and Psilocybin
In this blog series, we are sharing some of the healing stories from our recent book: Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia. In this blog, we share the story of Daniel, 39 y.o. Student (Mental Health/Addiction Studies) and his experiences with DMT and Psilocybin.
Will Australia take a lead in psychedelic therapy? By Kevin Ke
On September 30th 2021, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia published an eagerly awaited report on the use of psychedelics in treating mental health conditions.
The Ethics and Importance of the Role of Therapists in Working in Non-Ordinary States By Dr Traill Dowie and Nigel Denning
We would like to say something about the ethics and importance of the role of therapists in working in non-ordinary states.
Anyone for a Magic Mushroom Medicine? By Tania de Jong AM and Scott Leckie
How free are we if we don't have access to psychedelic medicines that could heal us?
Peter’s Story: Finding Acceptance, Being Generous And Healing Grief Through Psychedelic Medicines by Peter Hunt AM
As a young person, I never thought that I would be an Australian. I lived in a country town in England and my family seemed secure and loving (even though relationships between my mother and my father were sometimes strained).
The Enormous “Elephant in the Room” in the Government’s Mental Health Funding by Tania de Jong AM and Peter Hunt AM
Mind Medicine Australia (MMA) welcomes the Government’s commitment to mental health and its drive to improve the mental health of Australians and reduce suicide rates. The increased funding for the sector announced in the Budget is an especially important part of this.