1. Download our secure research platform Quantified Citizen from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

2. Sign up. You will be 100% anonymous. No personally identifiable information is ever collected.

3. Once on the main page, search for "Microdosing and Meditation" in the Studies tab at the bottom menu. Tap to join.

Amanda Feilding

Founder and Director of the Beckley Foundation, Co-Investigator        

Marco Schlosser

Former researcher at UCL, now fully committed to his contemplative practice, Designer of the study

Valerie Bonnelle

Scientific Officer at the Beckley Foundation, Co-designer of the study

Otto Simonsson

Researcher at the Karolinska Institute and Meditator, Principal Investigator

Carla Pallavicini

Neuroscientist from the University of Buenos Aires, Principal Investigator

Enzo Tagliazucchi

Professor of Physics and Neuroscience at the University of Buenos Aires, Co-Investigator

By agreeing to participate in this study, you acknowledge that all of your questions pertaining to the current study have been answered. A copy of this consent form is available through the app at any time for your reference. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw from the study at any time. If you DO NOT CONSENT to participate, please exit the study app.

Prior to consenting to take part to the study, please read the notice below:

You are advised not to microdose if you meet any of the following risk factors. By accepting this consent document, you acknowledge that you are proceeding at your own risk if you choose to microdose.

• History, family history (first or second-degree relative) or active diagnosis of psychotic disorders or other severe psychiatric disorders (anxiety, depression, psychosis, bipolar, schizophrenia, major affective disorder, etc.)

All information obtained during the study will be entirely anonymous. All digital data collection will be self-administered. You will get a unique, randomly generated username and your identity will remain anonymous. Please write down this username and keep it in a secure location. You will need it to login into the app should you lose your phone as well as to access your individual data summary and aggregated data. If for any reason you no longer have access to your QC account, and you do not remember your username, QC will not be able to regenerate your account.

You will never be asked to provide your real name, address, or date of birth. Averaged group data may be published or publicly presented, but it will not be possible to identify individual participants from this data. The Quantified Citizen app will not have access to any of your personal identifying information. Quantified Citizen will only access IP addresses from server logs for security and quality control and will delete them every 48 hours to limit indirect identifiers. Only authorized QC staff can access server logs based on their role and a need-to-know basis in order to fulfill their duties. IP addresses are not included in the data that will be analyzed in this study.

All of the data you enter into the Quantified Citizen app will be encrypted and stored in perpetuity on servers located in Canada. Anonymous data will be accessible to all researchers involved with this study. The data may be accessible to other researchers in the future. Any data you have previously entered into the app regarding the microdosing study will be used in addition to any data you enter in the future.

Data will be kept for 5 years following publication of the research at which point the data on the external hard drive and university’s server will be wiped clean.