Research
Research ideas, study directions, methods, and spiritual science questions. Members vote on where the focus goes.
Research disclaimer: any research involving human participants will go through all applicable legal requirements and review boards before it begins. Nothing on this page describes an active study.
Current directions
Entheogens for substance use disorder
The most time-pressing direction: investigating how entheogens can help treat addiction and substance use disorder.
Safety & purity science
Compiling what's known about the safety of each entheogen the community recognizes, including trace-impurity and dosing research, to help members and the public use them more safely.
Visionary neuroscience
Open questions like why certain colors dominate entheogenic visions, and what that says about how these compounds interact with the visual cortex.
Food cultivation beyond Earth
Hydroponic and aeroponic cultivation research at each Octagon, aimed at techniques that could one day support growing food off-planet.
How priorities get set
Members vote on which areas of research the community focuses on first. Where a donor wants funding directed to a specific research area, ORG intends to support earmarked giving so contributions go exactly where the donor chooses.