Our organization’s name is a tribute to the philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, who lived and worked in Amsterdam. In his most influential work, Ethica, he places significant emphasis on the importance of reason and evidence in the pursuit of knowledge. His way of reasoning has been essential to the establishment of modern science.

Like Spinoza, we highly value scientific research and base our protocols, programs and products on facts and objective observations as much as we can. And, to continuously improve the safety and efficacy of our offering, we closely monitor the increasing amount of scientific psychedelic studies done around the world. And, we are conducting our own research too.

First of all, we are monitoring the long term well-being of all our participants, in partnership with Cambridge University. So we understand and improve the lasting impact of our programs. Secondly, we are collaborating with several universities on a range of important psychedelic studies.

As such, we are all contributing to a better understanding of the safety and efficacy of psychedelics. Because that is critical to safeguard the responsible integration of psychedelics in society. To speak in the words of our favourite philosopher:

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

So let’s start learning! In this Science section, we’ll delve into what has been researched and what is known to date. We’ll discuss characteristics of proper scientific research and also why that is sometimes difficult in psychedelic studies. And of course we’ll tell you all about our own psychedelic research and partnerships.