Single Dose of Magic Mushroom Psychedelic Can Cause Anatomical Brain Changes
A small study found that a single 25mg dose of psilocybin produced measurable brain changes that were still visible a month later, along with reported improvements in psychological insight, wellbeing, and mental flexibility. The Guardian reports: Evidence for the changes came from specialized scans that measured the dif … ⌘ Read more
FDA Grants Quick Review For 3 Psychedelic Drug Trials
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted a quick review of three experimental psychedelic drugs meant to treat major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration signaling a shift in policy toward treatments that also give users a high – coming a day aft … ⌘ Read more
Scientists Engineered a Plant To Produce 5 Different Psychedelics At Once
Plants, toads, and mushrooms “can all produce psychedelic substances,” writes ScienceAlert.
“And now their powers have been combined in one plant.”
[S]cientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant ( Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced a … ⌘ Read more
Microdosing For Depression Appears To Work About As Well As Drinking Coffee
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: About a decade ago, many media outlets – including WIRED – zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing, or the practice of taking a small amount of a psychedelic drug seeking not full-blown hallu … ⌘ Read more
Imagine an eighties guy, eighties clothing, eighties hair, sunglasses, knowing grin, driving an eighties car blasting out the Psychedelic Furs
The psychedelic renaissance is here! 🌌💊 ⌘ Read more
Do Psychedelics Unlock a Deeper Truth? With Rick Doblin & Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
I was reading something to make a little pause from work. I saw a gnat on the screen. I thought ‘wow imagine how’s it perceiving the screen-space world’. So I went on and browsed Shadertoy for an hour LoL #shader #visual #trip #psychedelic #coding
. this stuff is seriously profound, and you’re able to change your bodymind in profound ways that mightn’t be obvious at first
🙌 Liked: Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data, by Emma Stamm ⌘ Read more
Magdalena Bay – Hysterical Us
Magdalena Bay went down to New Orleans this past summer to hook up with the amazing and MILAGROS Collective, and together they created this gloriously psychedelic vid that lands somewhere between Yo Gabba Gabba, Sid & Marty Kroftt if they were from the swamp, and your most vivid, technicolor waking dream… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Psychedelic art of the 1930s: Mescaline and psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum – Museum Crush https://museumcrush.org/how-mescaline-made-art-in-the-1930s-at-the-bethlem-museum-of-the-mind/
Random link from the archives: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mind-of-amanda-feilding-countess-of-psychedelic-science/ originally archived Fri Feb 16 12:08:27 EST 2018
Somebody call Tim Leary; I think he’s needed again: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/26/acid-test-how-psychedelic-virtual-reality-can-end-societys-mass-bad-trip
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
Welcome to the trip of your life: the rise of underground LSD guides | Society | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/06/lsd-guides-psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy
Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science
These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/
The Control Interrupt Model of Psychedelic Action http://psychedelic-information-theory.com/The-Control-Interrupt-Model-of-Psychedelic-Action
- feeling weightless (that after relief)↵* that paradoxical mix of fright and comfort of psychedelic trips↵* the feeling of scabs going off
Tour de Trance, in which professional psychonauts compete in who covers the greatest distance and psychedelics are banned as doping.