Tripping Forever: The New Science of Psychedelics & Longevity

Psychedelics can help us accept death… Could they also help us delay it?

Rumors linking psychedelics to immortality date back to ancient times.

Mysterious — and likely psychoactive — drinks such as Soma in the Indian Vedas or Kykeon in Greek Eleusinian Mysteries, were both thought to make initiates immortal, or at least grant them a glimpse of the deathless realm.

This theme has held strong into the modern era. In the 1960s, T…