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Pedram Dara @pedramdara.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper: Lived experience should be treated as evidence, not dismissed as anecdote. My new Perspective article is now published in @FrontPubHealth Lived experience as systems-relevant evidence in psychedelic public health. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub... #psychedelics #publichealth

Screenshot of a Frontiers in Public Health article page showing the Perspective article “Lived experience as systems-relevant evidence in psychedelic public health,” published September 14, 2026, by Pedram Dara of Psychedelic Lived Experiences in Ottawa, Canada. The image includes the Frontiers in Public Health journal branding, publication details, article title, author photo and name, and journal metrics.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.

Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. lack mericans have fought to make them true. --essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In all seriousness tho, if anyone can get a hold of a Johnson & Johnson Spravato coloring book, hit me up- I am very curious

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Psymposia was right, psychedelic therapy is the new MKUltra. Patients say J&J’s Spravato coloring books are packed with subliminal fascist messaging. Apparently if you shade the mandala just right, a cartoon eagle resembling Peter Thiel appears and calmly reminds you that resistance is inefficient

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

If there was ever a story about the importance of following your instincts … whew . God bless

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

How MDMA Inspired Me to Become an Art Therapist: Part 1; The “Inner Healing Intelligence” Is Creativity open.substack.com/pub/vesselsa...

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How MDMA Inspired Me to Become an Art Therapist: Part 1

The “Inner Healing Intelligence” Is Creativity

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

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Psychedelic Lived Experiences @psych-lived-exp.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Humbled and grateful for reflections like this. When a community comes together to center lived experience, the field shifts toward more human, patient-centered care. Thank you, Sara Garcia Velazquez, MD, for sharing this comment. #LivedExperience #psychedelics #ClinicalResearch #ClinicalTrials

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Everything Sasha said to me is straight from Nese’s playbook. Nese didnt just say that aspects of the therapy could led to abuse- she said it incentivizes abuse & the trial was a cult indoctrination attempt, & the whole ochard is rotten. If this wasn’t meant to be totalizing, sure sounds like it.

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

From another former ”not a psymposia” member

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

@cheetos.bsky.social Nese denied formally recognizing anyone part of Psymposia. So, I think its fair to consider an individual who collaborates with and actively amplifies the ‘MAPS is a therapy cult’ narrative reasonably be understood as functioning, in practice, as part of Psymposia

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Was a pleasure to have been able to speak at length with @hamiltonmorris.bsky.social about my clinical trial experience, impressions of Psymposia, and the importance of listening to clinical trials participants . www.patreon.com/posts/144155...

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Psychedelic Lived Experiences @psych-lived-exp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Janis Phelps, PhD on What Made Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit Remarkable Here is her perspective on why the Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit mattered and why this level of openness is so essential. 🎟️ Recordings are available now with the All Access Pass. Link in bio. #psychedelics

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Psychedelic Lived Experiences @psych-lived-exp.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

[LIVE PANEL] Centering Lived Experience in Psychedelic Research and Training What happens when lived experience becomes evidence? Get Your All Access Pass: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit-upgrade 🗓️ Nov 21, 2025 ⏰ 12 PM PST | 3 PM EST | 21:00 CET #psychedelics #livedexperience

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Pedram Dara @pedramdara.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

What could clinical science learn if it began by listening to the people it's meant to help?

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Psychedelic Lived Experiences @psych-lived-exp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Free Live Event: Psychedelic Integration through Storytelling, Coaching, and Creativity Join @mareesastertz.bsky.social Daniel Shankin from @tamintegration.bsky.social @onapraderas.bsky.social, and Jimmy Nguyen exploring best practices for psychedelic integration that go beyond therapy.

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Psychedelic Lived Experiences @psych-lived-exp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The Untold Stories of MDMA-assisted Therapy for PTSD Meet Becca Kacanda, M.S., and learn from her lived experience as a participant in phase 3 MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD clinical trials. 🎟️ Claim Your Free Pass: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit #psychedelics #LivedExperience

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Join us for the first ever Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit to hear from 50+ patients, therapists & researchers. Explore the potential and limits of psychedelic treatments with raw stories that move beyond hype and fear, highlight complexity, and deepen understanding. Thrilled to take part.

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Every time I eat Shame of Eggland eggs it flares up my eggzema and I have to re-up my Ebglyss ™ prescription, ugh

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

You almost never see/hear/read a person-on-the-street quote in which that person is saying "Yeah, immigrants are great." If it hates it rates just like if it bleeds it leads, and we get a disproportionate number of right-wingers sharing their hate and disinformation about immigration from msm.

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If not we should. Myths, fears and stigma abound there as well.

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Psychedelic Science & Policy @psysci.pyxorium.com · 06/08/2025

Dr. Lawrence Leeman of the University of New Mexico describes how the REKINDLE clinical trial will test the effectiveness of RE104 (a synthetic prodrug similar to psilocybin) in treating patients who have received a life-altering disease diagnosis.

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UNM Scientists Test Experimental Psychedelic Drug to Alleviate the Emotional Toll of a Life-Threatening Diagnosis

University of New Mexico researchers are joining a multi-site clinical trial of an experimental psychedelic drug intended to alleviate the mental suffering many patients experience when they receive a...

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Wow! Dr. Leeman is great- a fantastic person to be part of a study like this. Thanks for sharing.

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This requires buy-in from the FDA, insurance companies, and recruitment and training of more people including BIPOC.. so many systems need improvement in order for this to happen!

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

So many important areas I forgot to mention- the important of the BLM movement as another mass trauma reckoning, as well as the importance of psychedelic therapies being skillfully offered to diverse populations in a way that is culturally sensitive and, of course, affordable and accessible.

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I did a brief livestream w/Joe at @psychedelicstoday.bsky.social about my perspective as a MAPS MDMA-AT trial participant and perceptions of Psymposia’s critiques and methods. This topic is heavy and complex and difficult to talk about. Please excuse the technical difficulties…link in comments

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I posted to Twitter for what looks like the fifth time this year yesterday. Checked back today and the post has 39,000 likes, 3.2k retweets — and 9 replies, and 4 quote tweets. I'm sorry folks those numbers ain't real. Bordering on a statistical impossibility. It's gotta be almost entirely fake.

A twitter post of "No Way to Prevent This" in reply to an NYT headline that's nearly identical.

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I was told today that “lived experience is not a serious perspective”. It seems that many people aren’t aware that the field of mental health is largely based upon subjective experience, feelings, and plain observations. Lived experience runs the show. This is not hard science, folks… sorry

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I’m so glad I refused to leave this unusually friendly unclaimed kitty out on the street ( she was following us around at a block party) . Although only 6 lbs and approx 10 months old, she was PREGNANT 😭 . Baby girl is now spayed and we are fostering her until she’s adopted. 💕 meet Angelica 🥰

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I’m not really sure that’s fair to them and it’s causing many others immense pain and confusion, including outstanding therapists and other highly sensitive clinical trial participants./16

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Nese has claimed that their writing has been misconstrued by folks who just.don’t.understand.the.psychedelic.humanities! and that the cult messaging is specifically for those who have been harmed…/15

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

(It is very distressing- and especially when you’re told directly, in personal messages by an unhinged Psymposia acolyte- Sasha Sisko- like I was). /14

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I’ve often wondered if Nese has ever considered that it could actually be quite distressing and even re-traumatizing to be told that your hard earned healing from sexual trauma/abuse is the result of cult indoctrination. /13

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Okay- and it’s a little bit about the absurdity of one person claiming they are the expert and authority on literally hundreds of peoples experiences that they know nothing about.

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Added a very brief TL:DR synopsis in the comments section, but if this topic interests you I recommend reading the whole thing. And nope, this isn’t about taking sides, it’s about adding another important perspective to the multifaceted narrative.

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Becca Kacanda @beccakacanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

…otherwise we risk invalidating and burying an enormous amount of good work as well. A lot of incredible, life saving work between therapists and participants within the MAPS MDMA-AT model has taken place. It is far too valuable to misrepresent and discredit. /12

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