Skip to content

The world's psychedelic and consciousness research, in one open library

Search an ever-growing collection of studies on the mind and its altered states, each summarized in plain language.

28,698 articles and counting

Join free to bookmark, follow, and discuss Browse the library →

From the library

newest additions · most-cited papers · updated around the clock
  1. 10 minutes ago Emergence of Self-Awareness in Artificial Systems: A Minimalist Three-Layer Approach to Artificial Consciousness arXiv Preprint Archive · 2025
  2. 18 minutes ago Silence as Medium AfricArXiv · 2025
  3. about 1 hour ago Moral Agency without Consciousness Canadian Journal of Philosophy · 2025
  4. 13.3k citations The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2003
  5. 7.53k citations Using Self-Report Assessment Methods to Explore Facets of Mindfulness Assessment · 2006

The whole field, free to everyone

28,658 articles, aggregated from PubMed, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, and more, each summarized in plain language. Every summary is free to read, and every article links back to its original source.

Last updated about 10 hours ago

Explore by topic

Browse the library →

What you can do

One library, and the instruments to work it

Find and evaluate

Search a living library

Tens of thousands of articles from PubMed, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, and more, spanning psychedelics, meditation, philosophy of mind, and the humanities, each summarized with study design, sample size, and key finding.

Browse the library →

Start from a topic

Curated pages for every major compound, condition, practice, and tradition: the evidence at a glance, common study designs, and active clinical trials in one place.

Explore topics →

Weigh the evidence

Citation counts, peer-review markers, and a Most Cited sort separate landmark findings from the long tail.

See the most cited →

Stay current

Follow the frontier

Save a search or follow a topic and new matching articles arrive in a Monday digest. No feeds to check, no noise on quiet weeks.

Pick something to follow →

Track clinical trials

Recruitment status, phase, enrollment, and sponsors for the field's trials, refreshed daily from ClinicalTrials.gov.

Browse trials →

Discuss it with people who read it

Forums, comments, and voting with researchers, practitioners, and explorers making sense of the same literature.

Join the discussion →

Something missing? Tell us what you'd love to see.

The team

The minds behind Mindscape Collective · more about us →

Mike Elliott

Mike Elliott

Founder & Executive Director

Mike has a long history of consciousness exploration and study through dreams, meditation, psychedelics, and other altered states. He has a BA in Psychology and has been an engineer, organizational leader, consultant, and instructor in the software industry for over 15 years.

Most recently, Mike has worked as a Director of Engineering at Dutchie, the industry-leading software platform for cannabis dispensary operations, and ezCater, the largest catering technology company. He's in the MA program in Psychedelics and Consciousness Studies at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 2026. He spends his time outdoors, coding, gaming, learning, and exploring the mind and the world.

See his personal website at elliotec.com

Josie Kins

Josie Kins

Board Member & Director of Product Design

Josie is a prominent researcher, writer, community leader, YouTuber, and content creator within the online psychedelic subculture. She currently works as the Phenomenologist & AI Performance Specialist at Mindstate Design Labs.

Josie founded PsychonautWiki and The Subjective Effect Index, growing these sites into leading sources of formal documentation, phenomenology, classification, and taxonomy of altered states of consciousness, with over a million monthly visitors.

See her personal website at josiekins.xyz

Steve Urquhart

Steve Urquhart

Board Member

With his wife Sara, Steve founded The Divine Assembly, a DIY religion of spiritual autonomy. To promote safe and sincere worship, Steve has taught thousands of people to grow their own sacred mushrooms. His law practice focuses on entheogenic religions. He served in the Utah Legislature for 16 years, and taught health policy at the University of Utah medical school for 5 years.

See TDA's website at thedivineassembly.org

Ru Alyce

Ru Alyce

Board Member

Ru is a seasoned business builder, strategist and producer with 15+ years of experience working at the intersection of innovation, community, and commerce. She specializes in crafting immersive experiences that integrate physical and digital elements. She is deeply passionate about the transformative power of collective experiences, within the realms of art and alternative healing.

Currently, she is focused on creating physical and digital spaces that foster healing through self exploration and community connection, utilizing a variety of ancient and emerging wellness technologies. A few of her past clients include: City of Hope Medical Center, The Shed Cultural Center, Universal Parks & Resorts, Netflix, Apple, Google, and The Empire State Realty Trust.

See her LinkedIn here

Evan Hatch

Evan Hatch

Board Member

Evan Hatch is Managing Director at Center for Emergence, a nonprofit researching the intersection of spirituality and therapeutics. Center for Emergence sponsors clinical research at institutions such as the Harvard Neurospirituality Lab and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Evan is the founder and CEO of Worlds and an angel investor with 8+ years experience in Venture Capital

Ask the literature a question

The Research Synthesis Tool reads across the library and answers with the evidence behind it: where studies converge, where they conflict, and what remains unknown.

Does psilocybin reduce depressive symptoms? What does meditation change in the brain? What happens in the brain during lucid dreaming?

Example of a synthesis result: for the question "Does psilocybin reduce depressive symptoms?", the tool answers with moderate confidence, weighing 24 studies and noting 3 points of conflict and 4 open gaps.

Questions or ideas? Get in touch →