The Greening of Psychedelics
However, the personality trait of “openness” seems to increase after having a psychedelic experience, no matter your age
Michael Pollan • The ‘New Science’ Of Psychedelics
psychedelics once again. “In the big picture,” he told me the first time we met in his home office, “these drugs have been around at least five thousand years, and many times they have surfaced and have been repressed, so this was another cycle. But the mushroom still grows, and eventually this work would come around again.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Hoje, Roland Griffiths, que viria a retomar a linha de pesquisa encerrada em Spring Grove, se admira com o fato de que a primeira onda de pesquisas com substâncias psicodélicas, embora promissora, tenha acabado por razões totalmente alheias à ciência. “Acabamos demonizando esses compostos. Você consegue pensar em outra área da ciência que tenha sid
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Who among the first generation of psychedelic researchers would dispute a word of this classic gust of Leary exuberance, circa 1963: “Make no mistake: the effect of consciousness-expanding drugs will be to transform our concepts of human nature, of human potentialities, of existence. The game is about to be changed, ladies and gentlemen. Man is abo
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According to Paul, over the next decade, as psychedelics become legalized, their use will grow primarily through microdosing, not high-dose experiences