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Roman Gelperin

Roman Gelperin injured his back while lifting weights when he was 20. He spent the next year nearly unable to walk, and in searing nerve pain all of his waking hours. And it was the best thing that ever happened to him. Having lost his physical health, he achieved perfect psychological health — what the psychologist Abraham Maslow called self-actualization. (Read more about Maslow’s theory HERE.) Roman is the author of several self-published nonfiction books addressing different facets of psychological health, including:

Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation.

And It Was All Your Fault: Unraveling the Inner Psychology of Depression, How it Begins, and What Cures It.

Self-Actualized by Poker: The Path from Categorical Learning to Free-Thinking.

The Master Mind of the Self-Actualizing Person: The Life and Legacy of Abraham Maslow, and My Sudden Awakening into Self-Actualization.

On Rotting Prison Straw: The Self-Actualization of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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The Fountainhead of the Psychedelic Renaissance

February 3, 2025
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Philosophy

One of the biggest social and cultural movements currently sweeping the civilized world is what’s being called the “Psychedelic Renaissance.” That is the name for the reemergence, in mainstream culture, science, and medicine, of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA, which were outlawed in the late 1960s, 70s, and 80s, respectively.  Less than a decade ago, these substances — listed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as Schedule I drugs — were almost completely prohibited for all recreational, research, and medical uses. Possession of them was as strictly