The Greening of Psychedelics
active component in magic mushrooms, have replicated earlier findings that it can promote mystical, religious, or spiritual experiences.
David Jay Brown • Dreaming Wide Awake
How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
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In an editorial accompanying Griffiths’s paper, the University of Chicago psychiatrist and drug abuse expert Harriet de Wit tried to address this tension, pointing out that the quest for experiences that “free oneself of the bounds of everyday perception and thought in a search for universal truths and enlightenment” is an abiding element of our hu
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active component in magic mushrooms, have replicated earlier findings that it can promote mystical, religious, or spiritual experiences.
David Jay Brown • Dreaming Wide Awake
Walter Pahnke conducted one of the more famous psychedelic experiments12 in history. A graduate student in theology at Harvard Divinity School, Pahnke gathered a group of twenty seminary students at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel on Good Friday. To see if mind-altering drugs could produce “authentic” mystical experiences, he gave half the group p
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