A Reckoning with Psychedelics, Trauma, and the Cost of Truth

A Reckoning with Psychedelics, Trauma, and the Cost of Truth

In January 2026, journalist and breast cancer survivor Erica Rex will release a memoir that refuses to celebrate the psychedelic renaissance without interrogating its shadows. Seeing What Is There: My Search for Sanity in the Psychedelic Era, distributed by Simon & Schuster, arrives at a moment when psilocybin and MDMA are moving toward FDA approval, investment is flooding psychedelic startups, and millions are looking to these substances as pot…