Neurons To Nirvana Archives

From shadows to light – Metsa’s autobiography

Metsa introduces us to his book, soon available in english. A testimony about his adventurous and alternative life. This is the tenth and last of a 10 Questions interview with Francois. An ...

Ayahuasca mainstream – Metsa talk pros and cons of the practice booming

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, analizes how Ayahuasca is growing in our society, what are the dangers and how we could all benefit from this. This is the ninth of a 10 Questions ...

Collective consciousness and our need for it, according to Metsa

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, talks about the need in our society to rediscover our roots, and our connection with nature through meditation. This is the eighth of a 10 Questions interview with ...

Did JFK Drop LSD?

The notion that JFK experimented with LSD has many intriguing implications, highlighted here by Dr Ben Sessa: ‘JFK had close relationship with socialite painter Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer and she ...

Everything is connected – Consciousness in a cultural context

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, weighs in on psychedelics and consciousness in a cultural context; how it is evolving and how we are evolving with it. This is the seventh of a 10 ...

Do Elephants Die on LSD?

‘One elephant given 0.297 g of LSD died after a few minutes. The weight of this animal was determined to be 5,000 kg, which corresponds to a lethal dose of ...

Energetic blockage – Metsa on westerners as patients

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, underlines how our cultural imprinting as westerners can affect negatively our experience with ayahuasca and the healer. This is the sixth of a 10 Questions interview with ...

LSD and Spiders

In their riveting account of the so‐called hippie mafia, The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Stewart Tendlar and David May observe how LSD experiments ‘carried out on spiders, cats, fish and rats showed the ...

Facing darkness – Metsa on the delicate relation with patients.

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, Talks about the difficulty for a curandero to separate the relationship with a patient in ceremonies and outside ceremonies, and the responsibilities related to it. This ...

Ayahuasca helps me take a picture – Metsa on the content of ceremonies.

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, explains how a healer uses Ayahuasca during ceremonies. This is the fourth of a 10 Questions interview with Francois. An interview in which he explains the ...