Introspectra
A reference work on psychedelic pharmacology, safety, and history. Everything here carries its source, or it does not appear.
Five domains, with citation permitted in one direction only. A safety page may draw on clinical and mechanism records. Nothing in safety, clinical, or mechanism may draw on a report. The rule is enforced in the database, not in editorial habit — which means a claim cannot quietly become a fact by being linked to often enough.
Select a domain to see what it may draw on.
Where a finding sits, before you read it
Most writing in this field either overstates the science or dismisses it. The ladder is shown on every clinical record, and it is the first thing on the page rather than a caveat at the bottom.
And on mechanism, a second axis
Mechanism is where the overclaiming lives. A record states its distance from a human being, so that it grows new neurons cannot pass as a human finding when it is a rodent one.
What an unfinished record looks like
No field is ever filled with a plausible guess. Until a value arrives from a named source with a retrieval date, it shows as missing. This is the state most of the library is in today, and showing it honestly is the point.
Psilocybin — receptor binding profile
awaiting ingestion- compound
- Psilocybin — prodrug
- structure
- pending PubChem
- 5-HT2A Ki
- pending NIMH PDSP
- translational
- not yet assigned
- reviewed by
- pending
- retrieved
- —
Preparations for departure
Structured as a countdown rather than a list of topics, because the questions that matter change depending on how far out you are. A shared spine, with a module for each compound layered on top.
Whether at all
Medical screening, medication review, personal and family psychiatric history.
Arrangements
Who will be there. Testing. What the day after looks like before you need it to.
Last checks
Dietary and medication interactions, sleep, final contraindication pass.
The day
Setting, and what to do when it becomes difficult.
After
Rest, food, and writing it down before it thins out.
Settling
What held, what did not, and what to watch for.
Two standing editorial decisions: ibogaine has no preparation page, because a well-made one would imply it can be prepared for alone — its entry is why it requires cardiac screening and supervision. And for ayahuasca, the interaction list is the page, not a footnote.
Safety
One tap from every page. Built to be read in the dark, on a bad connection, by someone who is not calm.
If someone is unresponsive, call emergency services
Tell them what was taken if you know. You will not be arrested for calling.
Check interactions
Substance and medications. Sources shown with each result. When sources disagree, the most cautious one is shown and the disagreement is stated. Nothing you enter is logged.
Serotonergic medications
The most common dangerous interaction, and the one most often missed.
Testing what you have
Reagent kits, fentanyl strips, and what testing cannot tell you.
Supporting someone in distress
What helps, what makes it worse, and when to escalate.
Breathing to settle
Slow paced breathing. Not retention, not intensive work.
Severity is carried by weight and order, not by colour. A red badge fails a colourblind reader and reads as a dashboard. The heaviest thing on the page is the most important thing on the page.
The library carries one engraved plate per section. The safety pages carry none.