In this episode, Tripsitter’s Taylor Sterling sits down with Josie Kins — researcher and founder of several pioneering projects in the documentation of subjective, altered states of consciousness, including the Psychonaut Wiki. Josie is also affiliated with Mindstate Design Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing research on altered states for therapeutic benefit.
In this conversation, Taylor and Josie explore the challenges of describing psychedelic experiences, the creation of the Subjective Effect Index, visual replications of hallucinations, and the frontier of novel compounds like 5-MeO-MiPT.
Follow Josie's other projects: PsyAI.chat (AI psychonautics assistant), /r/Replications Subreddit (143k+ community for psychedelic visual art), her AI-generated psychedelia gallery, the psychoactive substances of Faerun (an awesome DnD homebrew), or check out her YouTube channel for more.
Whether you’re deeply embedded in psychedelic scholarship, curious about the edges of consciousness, or want to see how science and subjectivity can intersect — this episode gives you a front-row view of what happens when we try to chart the ineffable.
