USA Today: ‘Magic mushroom’ drug may improve personality long-term
In new research that will almost certainly create controversy, scientists working with the hallucinogen psilocybin — the active ingredient found in “magic mushrooms” — have found that a single dose of the drug prompted an enduring but positive personality change in almost 60 percent of patients.
Specifically, tests [...]
Also watched this – a DVD I got for supporting the Kickstarter project. Really thought-provoking and good, though the dialog didn’t sync entirely right. Though this made it extra psychedelic, as it made it seem like the interviewees’ minds were separate from their body.
BoingBoing lets Graham Hancock say his piece about the wonders of DMT:
A prevailing prejudice of modern society, a hangover from the darkest days of the War on Drugs, is that the “hallucinations” induced by psychedelics cannot possibly be “real” or significant experiences in any sense but are mere artifacts of disturbed brain [...]
Nice find from Dangerous Minds about one of the biggest LSD labs (the biggest? I don’t know). 250 million served:
Led to this: Orange Sunshine: The Story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love:
Not sure why Nick Sand doesn’t make it into the trailer. Apparently, the book counterpart to the movie is inaccurate. Nick [...]
DMT: The Spirit Molecule is looking to raise funds to release the DVD via Kickstarter. I’m good for $15.
As Dr. Strassman’s story unfolds, a variety of experts weigh-in on the intriguing questions raised by the research and the resulting theories, including the synthesis of DMT in our brain’s pineal gland, its link to [...]
Very good interview here with Adam Elenbaas, author of Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest. Unlike Daniel Pinchbeck who tackles this topic in more of a big-picture way – talking about notions of God and evolution – Adam Elenbaas seems to focus on the self-improvement potential of Ayahuasca. Which could [...]