How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
Julie Hollandamazon.com
How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
There is a ton of information now—including TED Talks and Michael Pollan’s book How to Change Your Mind—about psilocybin and MDMA being highly effective medications for PTSD.
The use of these drugs is not helpful if the insights gained from them are not integrated into the person’s normal state of consciousness.
It is known that the likelihood of long-term therapeutic gains increases with the likelihood of the subject having a mystical experience, prima facie evidence favoring a critical role for subjectivity. It is precisely the high emotional impact of the memories of the vivid and highly unusual psychedelic experience that serves as the primary source o
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