The Mycelium
News, culture, opinion, and current events from inside the world of microdosing. The connective tissue between the evergreen pillars and the wider world.
The five evergreen pillars of this site — Practice, Science, Root, What We Reject, and Member Stories — are built around content that does not change with the news cycle. They are reference material. They are the slow water table.
The Mycelium is the opposite. It is the place for what is happening right now in the world of microdosing — new research papers, legal changes, cultural shifts, opinion pieces, profiles of people doing interesting work, dispatches from the frontier of psychedelic-assisted therapy, and the occasional honest reaction to something the wider wellness industry got wrong.
The name is borrowed from the underground network mushrooms use to connect entire forests. The metaphor is the point: this pillar is the connective tissue between the evergreen content above ground and the wider world outside the site. It is also where new editorial voices from the community get to write — over time, members who have lived a particular archetype will be invited to take editorial ownership of their type’s content here.
Faster than the other pillars. More opinionated. Less reference, more conversation. The kind of writing you would actually want to read on a Saturday morning.
The latest
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commentary
2026: The Year the Field Stops Pretending It's One Thing
The psychedelic field in early 2026 is not having one conversation. It is having five or six at the same time, and they do not agree with each other. A map of where the work is, who is doing it, and where the quiet breaks are forming.
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The Bryan Johnson Arc: When the Optimizer Takes the Medicine
Bryan Johnson spent a decade turning himself into a measured system. In 2024 he published his psilocybin data. In 2025 he kept going. What the biohacker-in-chief taking the medicine seriously tells us about the next phase of this conversation.
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The Imperial College Body of Work: What It Has Shown and What It Hasn't
For more than a decade, the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London has produced some of the most-cited psilocybin studies in the modern literature. A careful look at what the research actually demonstrates, where the field has oversold it, and what questions the next decade needs to answer.
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culture
The Mycelium Model: Why Community Changes Everything
How nature's underground network mirrors the way healing actually works. You were never meant to do this alone.
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Why the 4th Awakening Period Changes Everything
The mainstream shift toward psychedelic wellness is accelerating. The science, the culture, and the desperation are all converging at the same moment.