Psilocybin Appears to ‘Reset’ Brain Activity of Depressed Patients – Stunning Results
Heather Callaghan – This is the future of mental health.
Heather Callaghan – This is the future of mental health.
Alex Pietrowski – Medical mushrooms may be the next move in the war on the war on drugs.
Michael Forrester – First cannabis and now magic mushrooms are slowly being introduced back into the vocabulary of medical scientists.
Video – Watch Eddie Marritz, a cinematographer and photographer in remission from small-cell carcinoma, talk about his experience with psychedelic mushrooms, commonly known as magic mushrooms.
Elizabeth Limbach, AlterNet Waking Times Researchers looked at psilocybin’s impact on anxiety and depression. Anxiety disorders top the list of America’s mental illnesses, affecting 18 percent of the U.S. population. Yet, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, only a third of its sufferers receive treatment for it. Meanwhile, the association reports that 3 to …
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times Cancer rates are on the rise worldwide, which means that in coming generations more and more people will have their lives turned inside out with a diagnosis, and with having to turn their attention to battling this new plague. The psychological effects of having your world turned on its …
Maia Szalavitz, Time Waking Times The psychedelic drug in magic mushrooms may have lasting medical and spiritual benefits, according to new research from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The mushroom-derived hallucinogen, called psilocybin, is known to trigger transformative spiritual states, but at high doses it can also result in “bad trips” marked by terror and …
Waking Times Will mushrooms have a pivotal impact on whether or not we survive into the next millennium? Is it possible that those of us who have been exposed to the cosmic properties of psychoactive mushrooms were chosen by nature to be vehicles for receiving communications between plants and humans? Mycologist and author Paul Stamets …
A recent study offers a glimpse of the effects of the drug psilocybin, which can be found in “magic” mushrooms, on the human brain.
Waking Times Beyond the stigma of being a mind-altering drug, psilocybin active mushrooms have many profoundly beneficial effects on the human psyche. Patients with terminal cancer often die emotionally well before their bodies are overtaken. In this video from CNN news, Norma Lauring, an aging artist with stage 4 terminal cancer shares how medically supervised …
silocybin is a chemical that’s found in certain types of mushrooms and those are known as “magic mushrooms.” Those give you a hallucinogenic trip. But, what most people find is that it’s more than just hallucinations. It’s a finding of yourself and an experience where you delve deeper into your person. I think that’s what people don’t see. They just see it as a drug.
“Everybody who has taken psychedelics makes the point that these can produce the most profound changes in the state of awareness and being that any of them have experienced,” he told The Guardian.
John Vibes – For this first time ever, the Canadian government has approved patients to take psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms as a part of their end-of-life therapy.
Cynthia Chung – No wonder that the Tavistock Institute and the CIA became involved in looking at the effects of LSD and how to influence and control the mind.
Sarah Friedman – Ayahuasca is not the first psychedelic to be looked at for addiction, as many studies were performed on LSD for alcoholism last century.
Elias Marat – California could soon decriminalize psychedelics statewide if one legislator’s new bill is passed.
Matt Agorist – Nothing highlights the hypocrisy, immorality, and sheer idiocy of the drug war quite like marijuana prohibition.
Elias Marat – They hope to gain a better understanding of how the psychedelic drug can be used to treat various mental health disorders.
Matt Agorist – Drugs and the idea of personal mental sovereignty won big last night.
The Mind Unleashed – The measure passed by a near-landslide 59 percent of voters versus 41 percent.