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Dr David Luke

@drdluke.bsky.social
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Professor of Exceptional Experience, researcher, writer, wronger, psychedelic Indiana Jones..

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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good spot. You passed our "who is paying the most attention" test.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Had a great chinwag with the blarney kissing and ever curious Evan Mcgloughlin about all things weird, psychedelic and exceptional experience on his Giant's Shoulder podcast.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD...
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Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Keeping it surreal and taking it back to the home of Dada I'll be heading to the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich to speak at The Psychedelic Salon on 'Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience' on Thursday, 9 April 2026, 6 - 9 pm www.cabaretvoltaire.ch#node-127897-en
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ever dreamed the future? We are launching a new study experimentally exploring the phenomena of precognitive #dreams under controlled conditions and are looking for lucid and non-lucid dreamers to take part.. from the comfort of your own bed. QR code or link: gre.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Feeling very privileged to be part of the structured Afterlight psilocybin retreat here in the very beautiful nature of Negril, and featured in the Jamaica Gleaner along with lead psychologist Dr. Crystyn Scott. Such an extraordinary team here doing great work. jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news...
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Trauma care meets psilocybin in a structured retreat
Afterlight Retreats will host its first clinical psilocybin therapy and integration retreats in Jamaica from today through to March 8 at Negril Huts, a private cluster of cottages on the West End clif...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Ecodelia and the lost art of lichenthropy - On becoming fungus on acid and on being publicly ridiculed by grass on Salvia My latest Substack exploring the psychedelic experiences leading folk to connect & communicate with, or transform into other species substack.com/@davidluke54...
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Ecodelia and the lost art of lichenthropy
On becoming fungus on acid and on being publicly ridiculed by grass on Salvia
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New podcast interview with Haley Dourron at Furthure on ‘Exceptional Experiences with Psychedelics and Beyond’ for all the latest on the far out and freaky end of the spectrum psychedelic experiences.. open.spotify.com/episode/1Kng...
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Exceptional Experiences with Psychedelics and Beyond with Dr. David Luke
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
What I also find weird is that commercially grown roses have been selectively bred for their appearance as to often make them sterile, which makes it a pretty weird symbol of love!
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Pleased to be joining counselling psychologist Dr Crystyn Scott & team at the Afterlight psilocybin retreat in Jamaica next month to offer guidance & support. Afterlight are committed to helping islanders recover following Hurricane Melissa. A few spaces left www.afterlightretreats.com/experience
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Putting the psi back into psilocybin - On psychedelomancy & exceptional psychedelic experiences Latest Substack, exploring the paranormal experiences of the original pioneers of psychedelic science in the 50s & 60s on their initial altered excursions! tinyurl.com/2mvw7w7d
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Putting the psi back into psilocybin
On psychedelomancy and exceptional psychedelic experiences
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
.. and then over to yours for a tropane truffle party..
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
aye aye say I with me one good eye! 🏴‍☠️
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There is defo a sizeable hint of this at the very least, as they tend to be the open eye 'true hallucination' type so beloved of tropane alkaloids, i.e., anticholinergic. The waking dream.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
thanks!
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There's been a lot of discussion recently about a non-psilocybin 'magic mushroom' from China that induces encounters with small armies of little people. I took a longer look under the tablecloth to see what all the fuss was about.. davidluke543044.substack.com/p/so-long-as...
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So long as you've got your elf
On mushrooms and miniature people
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There's been a lot of discussion recently about a non-psilocybin 'magic mushroom' from China that induces encounters with small armies of little people. I took a longer look under the tablecloth to see what all the fuss was about.. davidluke543044.substack.com/p/so-long-as...
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So long as you've got your elf
On mushrooms and miniature people
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
oh 'that' acid...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Also as Steve notes, the 'open' eye visuals is interesting. But i have to say, I also saw very little people marching through our yurt once with my eyes open on ayahuasca (which contains DMT), although this isn't especially common. I'm actually going to post up that story next week.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
'zactly, people see a lot of little people on DMT. Whatever is in those shrooms is doing something similar, it might even be working on similar receptors. I never said it had DMT in it, but it is worthwhile observing the similarities, ..and differences.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
..and what is the active chemical then...? ;0)
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
And yet people were having visions of 'little people' (dwarves, elves, etc) on DMT from the very first obscure trip reports, before McKenna started raving about it, so that does not add up either. www.academia.edu/12936124/DMT...
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DMT research from 1956 to the end of time (2015)
Gallimore, A., & Luke, D. (2015). DMT research from 1956 to the end of time. In D. King, D. Luke, B. Sessa, C. Adams and A. Tollen (Eds), Neurotransmissions: Psychedelic essays from Breaking Conve...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Dream yoga on the high seas
On pirate utopias and intellectual and psychic piracy
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
'Dream yoga on the high seas - On pirate utopias and intellectual and psychic piracy.' My latest post on Substack, exploring the very body, mind and soul of pirates, and, well, everyone really. davidluke543044.substack.com/p/dream-yoga...
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Dream yoga on the high seas
On pirate utopias and intellectual and psychic piracy
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Image 'The Call' - Remedios Varo
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
You've undoubtedly heard of apparently precognitive dreams, or possibly had one. You may've even heard of the 'law of large numbers' as an explanation. But have you heard of the 'law of at large slumbers'? New substack about my Popular Mechanics interview substack.com/profile/1969...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My latest post on Substack, where I whine about Wikipedia, fail to coin a new psychological term, find myself sceptical about organised skepticism, but end up very much admiring some abstract art.. in.. The Battle of Portmanteau davidluke543044.substack.com/p/the-battle...
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The Battle of Portmanteau
On finding artistic patterns in the war with guerrilla skeptics and their rigid support for a Nazi psychiatrist
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Following on from my interview with @matthabusby.bsky.social for DoubleBlind last week I've further extended some of those insights into the highly speculative psychedelic origins of (or contributions to) language evolution into a new Substack post - davidluke543044.substack.com/p/reawakenin...
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Reawakening the Stoned Ape
On the possible psychedelic origins of language, and why there might be better options than attending a ‘once every 17 years’ hypersexual psychedelic zombie orgy swarm party
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Excited that Breaking Convention, the UK's largest & oldest (& arguably best) psychedelic research conference, is returning to SE London in 2026 at the next door wich to Greenwich. Woolwich. I guess any old wich will do so long as you know which wich is which. See you there? breakingconvention.co.uk
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Some suggestion from this interesting new research that 'couples who trip together, stick together' - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Associations of Couples’ Psychedelic Use with Shared Reality and Relational Well-Being
The resurgence in research with classic psychedelics (e.g. LSD, psilocybin) underscores their potential for improved well-being; however, the interpersonal context and mechanisms of psychedelic imp...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Had a great day listening to Max Cooper's incredible music through the 360 multilayered immersive sound installation at the University of Greenwich Immersive Lab with Max & a fantastic crew of fellow audionauts as part of my PhD student Viviana Caros project into audio ASCs & spiritual experience.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The serpent's tale of the original medical staff - Hippocrates and the therapeutēs On altered states, visionary experience and healing in ancient Greece, the Amazon and my back garden My latest substack: davidluke543044.substack.com/p/the-serpen...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
An auto-eulogising round up of my the lost/last year.. Chasing academic chimeras in the pursuit of exceptional experiences: 2025 as the year of dream temples, salamanders, psychedelics and sawing children in half.. davidluke543044.substack.com/p/chasing-ac...
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Chasing academic chimeras in the pursuit of exceptional experiences
2025 as the year of dream temples, salamanders, psychedelics and sawing children in half..
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Props to the CPEP research team tinyurl.com/ywa6jbe8 especially lead author @eirini-k-a.bsky.social, our paper on post-psychedelic ontological shock got selected by PLOS One editors from among 1000s as a stand out paper in medicine in 2025. everyone.plos.org/2025/12/16/e... doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Editors' picks: A highlight of 2025 publications - EveryONE
Reflecting on the publications in PLOS One in 2025, the diversity and quality of the work is demonstrated in articles ranging from…
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A third-eye peeping exploration by Webb Wright of that particular 'dimethyltrypta-meme' that the pineal gland is the seat of the soul and neurochemical factory of the spirit molecule DMT, for which I chimed in with a few (interdimensional) observations.. newsletter.doubleblindmag.com/p/why-the-pi...
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Why the Pineal Gland Became a Spiritual Fixation
In today's dispatch, we're unpacking what we actually know about the pineal gland.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Great article by @matthabusby.bsky.social on the origin story of psychonaut scientist Bruce Damer & the origin story of life on earth, and Bruce's MINDS project exploring the use of psychedelic for scientific creative problem solving nautil.us/the-psychede... see also doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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The Psychedelic Scientist
The Psychedelic Scientist: High on ayahuasca, Bruce Damer saw how life on Earth began. He may very well be right.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great piece by Tamlin Magee for BBC celebrates the many unsung contributions of Erowid.org to drug policy, culture and science & interviewing psychedelic nerds like myself, Erik Davis, Rick Doblin, Leor Roseman, & Nicolas Langlitz
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Erowid
Erowid is a non-profit educational & harm-reduction resource with 60 thousand pages of online information about psychoactive drugs, plants, chemicals, and technologies including entheogens, psychedelics, new psychoactive substances, research chemicals, stimulants, depressants and pharmaceuticals. This includes traditional, spiritual, and responsible use, info on health, effects, experiences, images, research, chemistry, law, media coverage, bibliographies and a whole lot more.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Our pilot study: "Change in occupational burnout measures in emergency medical service workers after a psychedelic experience induced by a single self-administered dose of psilocybin mushrooms" doi.org/10.1556/2054...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
A fascinating @drugscience.bsky.social podcast interview by David Nutt with 3 SAS paramedics, echoing the findings of our naturalistic pilot study of 5 paramedics who took psilocybin to deal with work place stress, with reductions in burnout, stress & compassion fatigue.. tinyurl.com/ycujmvw7
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138. Scottish Ambulance Service - Frontline Trauma with John, Joanne and Ryan
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Really excited to be returning to Dublin for Samhain for the 2nd IMBAS Psychedelic Research Conference organised by Irish Doctors for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy @IdPat7 & the Psychedelic Research Group, Trinity College Dublin. I'll be talking Ecodelia & the Art of Lichenthropy www.idpat.ie/events
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Events | Irish Doctors for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
We will keep you posted on upcoming educational events in the field of psychedelic medicine.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Will be giving a short talk tonight for Numinous Ways on Entity Encounters in Psychedelic Experience.. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-david-l...
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Dr David Luke presents: Entity Encounters in Psychedelic Experience
Dr David Luke will discuss how psychedelics induce entity encounters, exploring their cultural, psychological, and transformative aspects.
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
... and here digitalcommons.ciis.edu/advance-arch...
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Smokable "Vine of the Dead": Two Case Studies of Experiencers of Both Changa and Near-Death Experiences
Introduction: Virtually no studies have looked at psychopharmacological combinations as models of the near-death experience (NDE), which is inadequate given the evidently complex neurochemistry occurr...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I also like this proposal "Systematic interviews with LBD patients who have experienced SP-induced hallucinations prior to their diagnosis,.. could provide valuable insights into these phenomenological similarities and differences" which we emulate here doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
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Frontiers | This is your brain on death: a comparative analysis of a near-death experience and subsequent 5-Methoxy-DMT experience
Introduction: Much research has focused on the modelling of the near-death experience (NDE) by classical and atypical psychedelics, whereas no study has yet ...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Congrats on this research, good to see a more nuanced approach, exploring phenomenology, when comparing psychedelic experiences to organic disorders. Looking at the specifics rather than gross factors (e.g., complex hallucinations) it would seem there are more dissimilarities than similarities, no?
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our cited research "The potential synergistic effects between psychedelic administration and nature contact for the improvement of mental health" doi.org/10.1177/2055...
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The potential synergistic effects between psychedelic administration and nature contact for the improvement of mental health - Sam Gandy, Matthias Forstmann, Robin Lester Carhart-Harris, Christopher T...
Therapeutic psychedelic administration and contact with nature have been associated with the same psychological mechanisms: decreased rumination and negative af...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Encouraging to see this recent UK Gov's Natural England commissioned report on the importance of nature connection, and also that it mentions our research on the enhanced wellbeing & connection to nature derived from psychedelic experiences tinyurl.com/265z58wn
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Connection to Nature - EIN068
{"flavour": "textile", "content": "This briefing focuses on the evidence for connection to nature and is one of a series that summarises evidence of the links between the natural environment and a ran...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Finally I am giving a talk in a venue that matches my end-of-the-pier 'standard' of humour - The Gaiety, Portsmouth, next Monday 6th October, for The Science of Psychedelics.. "I'm here all week!" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scienc...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Any good?
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This new collaborative paper from 17 @drugscience.bsky.social professionals (myself included) in the field presents a new standardized terminology for psychedelic research and treatment to guide clinical development, dosing, safety monitoring, and regulatory classification. doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Kudos to @matthabusby.bsky.social for writing this much needed piece about challenging psychedelic experiences (& the CPE project - challengingpsychedelicexperiences.com) and their potential for extended difficulties. Including a quote from my good s'elf. statesofmind.com/psychedelic-...
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Do Difficult Psychedelic Experiences Hurt or Heal You? Inside The World’s Bad Trip Debate
Many believe that "bad" trips should be reframed as challenging parts of the healing process. Does that ignore the risks?
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Dr David Luke @drdluke.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Looking forward to give the first @SeedTalks event on parapsychology. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-phenom...
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