Psychedelic drug

poisoning is no longer a concern to us due to the cleansing process harvested grain must undergo through to remove any such parasites or anything that could have been on the agriculture, the uses of ergot fungi began to be realized and thus, medicine/drug to precipitate childbirth was the first product created from this parasite. However, this discovery was not beneficial in the later years once…

When both Psilocybin and LSD were deemed illegal in certain countries, MDMA began to emerge. In 1970, biochemist Alexander Shulgin explored controlling the altered consciousness MDMA had on people. Following Shulgin, around 4,000 psychiatrists and psychologists began experimenting with MDMA in their practice. Case reports from individual psychiatrists and psychologist proved that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy was successful in treating their patients. Although case reports analyzing the effects of…

these genera are relatively close to being similar/identical, they all do have traces of the psilocybin drug or psilocin, an almost-identical particle to serotonin, structurally and effectiveness, that psilocybin converts to instantly when it finishes metabolizing, but not as much as Psilocybe sp. Looking more in depth of this genus, the most popular and commonly available natural psychedelic currently is the species Psilocybe cubensis (other names could be Stropharia cubensis, Stropharia…

American minds. During its inception the counterculture rallied around one man, a Harvard professor turned psychedelic guru named Timothy Leary. Leary’s high minded ideals and crowd-pleasing personality led him to become one of the main faces of the movement, and helped its other personalities develop their own ideals as well. Thus, it can be said that Timothy Leary’s explorations with psychedelic drugs led him to encounters with notable figures of sixties’ counterculture, creating a series of…

doses of LSD to a poverty-stricken research volunteer that saw images of a Hindu God with many spiraling arms during his psychedelic experience. He found out because the young man, who was in his mid-twenties, pointed it out in a magazine he was looking through some time after the experiment at Richards office and it was exactly that, a Hindu rendition of the God Shiva. “Psychedelic research, however, does suggest that there are heaven and hells within each of us, often populated with…

for your whole life you have been taught that drugs are awful for your health they can destroy your brain and your body, which is true for most drugs and even some prescription drugs. But what if i were to tell you that some of these so called dangerous drugs are not as dangerous as you have been told but they also can have psychological benefits. The main hallucinogens i will be talking about include Psilocybin mushrooms, LSD-25. Hallucinogenic drugs have psychological benefits in humans. To…

medicinal, ritual, and spiritual remedies, these drugs have shown positive treatments in more recent years. This notion that hallucinogenic drugs played a significant part in the development of religion has been extensively discussed for many years, causing controversial aspect of “hallucinogenic” or psychedelic drugs generate religious experience, and whether this experience is genuinely religious. Before considering the religious potential of psychedelic drugs, one must apply a working…

Written by Siri Carpenter, “Everyday fantasia: The world of synesthesia” gives me some background knowledge into past studies of synesthesia. Carpenter gave a translation of synesthesia, stating that it derives from the greek language with the meaning “to perceive together.” She also gave some ratios declaring that almost 1 in 2000 are synesthetes and that as many as 1 in 300 have a variation of it. This article also starts by giving some wonderful examples on how synesthesia impacts…

Synesthesia: Crossed Responses to Inducers and Who is Affected Sylveria McCue Red Rocks Community College Abstract Synesthesia is a condition where the brain crosses the signals from the five senses resulting in letters, numbers, and words having colors, tastes having the feeling or vision of shapes in a synaesthetes mind, and sounds including physical responses of pain or pleasure. Acute studies on grapheme-color synesthesia provides the most research on who has this condition. Once believed…

sacrament predate any writings on ayahuasca. Illustrated in the article “Ayahuasca: An Ethoparmacologic History” not knowing how ayahuasca was discovered is something we have to live with through the ages although a lot of delightful myths are circling the drug. The UDV says that the knowledge came from King Solomon, who bestowed his insight to the Inca king during his supposed visit to the New World (McKenna). Shifting from legends to the scientific realm, in 1851 the botanist Richard Spruce…