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The Weekly Guide
Resources, research, and reflections — curated each week for the guides in our community.
JUL 3, 2026
From the Platform
What's new and coming to Guides Collective.
Solving the sync to calendar bug. Your availability should reflect what is on your google calendar. Prioritizing this!
Reviewing emails to make sure that seekers have the ability to add their consultations to calendar from their email, not just from the dashboard.
We're going national! Next week we'll start launching ads on a national scale.
Section 01
Industry Headlines
What's happening in the psychedelic space this week.
PSYPOST · JULY 2, 2026
Psilocybin Improves Sleep Quality in Patients With Chronic Cluster Headaches
A study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found that psilocybin may enhance subjective sleep quality in chronic cluster headache patients, with improvements correlating to reduced headache frequency. Researchers observed a 50% reduction in weekly attacks and a 24% improvement in sleep scores following three doses of synthetic psilocybin. While promising, the findings are limited by a small sample size and lack of placebo control.
PSYPOST · JUNE 26, 2026
An 80-Year-Old Woman With Advanced Alzheimer's Regained Speech and Mobility After Taking Psilocybin
A case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience documents how an 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease experienced temporary improvements in speech, mobility, and continence after consuming a high dose of psilocybin mushrooms. The patient regained the ability to walk independently, recovered urinary continence lost for five years, and sustained spontaneous conversation for several hours. Researchers emphasize this single case cannot establish psilocybin as a treatment and stress the urgent need for controlled clinical trials.
PSYPOST · JUNE 27, 2026
An International Brain Imaging Analysis Reveals How Psychedelics Rewire Neural Circuits
An international analysis pooling brain imaging data from 273 healthy participants found that psilocybin and LSD increase functional connectivity between sensory and association networks — challenging earlier theories about neural network breakdown. By standardizing across 11 independent datasets and applying Bayesian statistical analysis, researchers identified consistent connectivity patterns across different psychedelic compounds that may underlie their therapeutic effects.
Section 02
From the Field
Perspectives and insights from leaders in the psychedelic space.
PSYPOST · JUNE 7, 2026
Who Is Using Psilocybin? First National Survey Reveals Demographics of Magic Mushroom Users
A 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 2.8% of Americans aged 12+ — roughly 8 million people — reported past-year psilocybin use. Young adults and men were significantly more likely to use psilocybin, with strong correlations found between magic mushroom use, other psychedelic or cannabis use, and depression.
PSYPOST · JUNE 2, 2026
New Research Challenges the Idea That Psychedelics Reduce Authoritarian Attitudes
Examining three separate research projects, a new study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found no reliable evidence that psychedelic substances alter authoritarian political attitudes — directly contradicting earlier smaller studies. Researchers concluded that any psychological shifts from these substances are likely inconsistent and depend on contextual factors that remain poorly understood.
Section 03
Personal Journeys
First-person accounts worth reading — perspectives that inform the work we do.
PSYCHEDELIC SUPPORT · MAY 18, 2026
Unfreezing: Healing Trauma with Psilocybin
After decades searching for a way through childhood trauma and complex PTSD, one woman found what talk therapy couldn't reach — through a series of eight-hour, therapist-guided psilocybin sessions. With each journey, long-frozen parts of herself began to soften. She went from therapy twice a week to once a month. The changes weren't fleeting. She describes the result with quiet conviction: a quiet sense of wholeness.
DOUBLEBLIND · JUNE 26, 2026
100 LSD Trips In, Roger Steffens Is Very Acidified
At 84, legendary photographer and musicologist Roger Steffens has been tripping since 1966 — and he makes no apologies for it. From dropping acid on a pacifist monk's island during Vietnam, to meeting his wife on a 1975 trip in the California hills, to decades spent documenting Bob Marley and the reggae world, psychedelics have shaped everything he's built and believed.