Dr David Luke

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...

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

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_...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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

Some suggestion from this interesting new research that 'couples who trip together, stick together' - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Will be giving a short talk tonight for Numinous Ways on Entity Encounters in Psychedelic Experience.. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-david-l...

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...

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...

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-...

Looking forward to give the first @SeedTalks event on parapsychology. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-phenom...

Off to The Electric Picnic festival in Ireland with SeedTalks to find some craic and rant about #psychedelics .. see you there? www.electricpicnic.ie/artists/#/ev...

Really enjoying listening to the extraordinary insights, perfect prose, witty banter, & stellar scholarship of Andrew Gallimore's audio version of his latest book, "Death by Astonishment" on the alien worlds of DMT. Hard copies launch Monday. Look after yer 'elf! www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Astoni...

Interesting new paper found among psychedelic researchers most (86%) agree #psychedelic experiences have exceptional potential in treating psychiatric conditions, but only 28% agreed they could be used to help solve the ecological crisis.. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Myself & co-author Pascal Michael interviewed by William Hunter in the Daily Mail exploring the similarities & important differences between #psychedelic experiences with DMT & near-death experiences, from our recent article www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

It seems I will feature in a few of the forthcoming episodes of the new 12-part BBC Radio 4 documentary about #psychedelics called "The Trip", which runs across two weeks starting next Monday, at 13:45 daily, Mon-Fri. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Big move in EU psychedelic therapy heralds new direction. Psilocybin therapy is now available in Germany for the first time for compassionate use.. www.ovid-clinics.de/en/news

Will be exploring my 30 yrs of research & the last 140 yrs of #parapsychology as a formal field of study for SeedTalks' first event on the subject, at their London venue in Brixton (also live streamed), on 23rd Sept. Come peek into the otherworld with me.. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-phenom...

Another new study on HPPD showing various prior health predictors of HPPD, especially prior anxiety diagnosis, as we also previously found - www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6... doi.org/10.1556/2054...

Thanks Glastonbury and chums, that was fun. Was really happy to return after years and give a talk on "Lichenthropy for beginners: Becoming fungi with psychedelics"

Happy to have been interviewed by Mattha Busby for his latest fine article for Wired, illuminating some of the more obscure dimensions of darkness retreats.

Nice deep dive on psychedelic-induced ontological shock by Sam Woolfe, exploring our recent qualitative research study on the subject - doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Co-author Dr Oliver Robinson interviewed by PsyPost about our recent paper on the different ways in which people cope with different symptoms of extended psychological difficulties following a psychedelic experience. Paper here: doi.org/10.1556/2054... www.psypost.org/new-study-sh...