Kyle Buller and Joe Moore discuss breathwork, community building, creativity measurement, and new DMT and breathwork research

Breathwork serves as a core counterpoint to drug centered psychedelic narratives, with Joe Moore and Kyle Buller arguing that profound non-ordinary states can be accessed without substances when facilitation is safe and supported. They connect this to a community-centric model for Psychedelics Today, emphasizing education, live streams, book and film clubs, small group access, and affordability through a membership style approach. They also discuss “shamanism” as a functional frame (non-ordinary states, interaction with the unseen, and service) rather than a purely drug dependent concept, with service and community as key reasons for doing the work. On creativity, they debate how to reconcile subjective “felt creativity” with objective task performance, referencing a double blind study involving DMT plus harmine (vs harmine and placebo) and why measuring creativity fairly matters. They then highlight emerging clinical and preclinical DMT related threads, including DMT potential in stroke recovery and emerging reports for cluster headaches, alongside breathwork science tied to measurable physiological and affect changes.