Magic Mushrooms Finally Being Accepted As Viable Treatment For Depression
Michael Forrester – First cannabis and now magic mushrooms are slowly being introduced back into the vocabulary of medical scientists.
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The World Is Rediscovering the Medical Benefits Of Psychedelic Plants
Steven Maxwell – Where pharmaceuticals are failing, exotic plant-based psychedelics seem to be succeeding.
5 Powerful Psychedelics That Reorganize the Brain and Elevate Consciousness
Michael Forrester – Psychoactive plants and hallucinogens have given us the opportunity to see life through different perspectives for thousands of years.
Study of 3 Psychedelics Finds They Do No Harm but Actually Improve Mental Health
Phillip Schneider – “Overall, it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure.”
Quantum Perception and the Recognition of Plant Consciousness
Joseph S. Gallwitz – If a tree falls in the forest with noone around does it make a sound? Of course.
Your Brain on Psychedelic Mushrooms
Video – Psychedelic mushrooms are commonly used as a recreational drug that causes hallucinations, while scientists are exploring the healing potential of these plants. But how exactly do psychedelic mushrooms work?
10 Ways to Treat Depression Without Antidepressants
Sarah Landrum, Contributor Waking Times You’ve probably been told that antidepressants correct the chemical imbalance in your brain. As it turns out, that’s not quite true. In fact, antidepressants might be doing you more harm than good. Even if antidepressants do work, the fact remains that they’re insanely expensive. Considering how depression treatments can last …
What is the Difference Between Entheogens and Drugs?
James Oroc – The more a compound disrupts the Ego, the physically safer it is, while the more a ‘drug’ reinforces and inflates the sense of Ego, the more toxic it will be…
How Underground Therapists and Scientists Keep Psychedelic Medicine Alive Despite the Gov’t Ban
Tom Shroder, AlterNet Waking Times In the past decade, after thirty years in the deep freeze, research into the medicinal use of psychedelic drugs, ranging from psilocybin to Ketamine, and from MDMA to LSD, has begun to accelerate. FDA-approved pilot studies and clinical trials using the drugs under controlled conditions and in combination with talk …
3 Common Mental Health Issues Treatable with Psychedelics
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Despite the complicated social perspective regarding psychedelics, more research and attention is being given to the use of psychedelic substances such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin mushrooms, and plants such as ayahuasca to treat mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, alcoholism and drug addiction. Psychedelics interact with serotonin receptors …
Feed Your Head: Harnessing Neurogenesis
Sam Gandy, Guest Waking Times The human brain contains around 86 billion neurons, and 86 trillion connections between these neurons. That is more connections than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy, or galaxies in the known universe. The human brain is one of the most complex and wondrous things we know of, and …
5 Mind-Blowing Lessons from Psychedelics Experts
April M. Short, AlterNet Waking Times A recent online course unraveled psychedelic science, medicine, art and spirituality. The problem with banning anything out of a fear of the unknown is that many unknowns will remain. Such is the story of many psychedelic drugs in the U.S. While the government has experimented with various psychedelic compounds …
6 Amazing Things Scientists Have Discovered About Psychedelics
April M. Short, AlterNet Waking Times Psychedelics have the potential to treat cancers, addiction and psychological traumas. Despite the fact that the U.S. government deems many hallucinogenic or psychedelic substances to be dangerous, classifying them as Schedule I drugs with “no currently accepted medical use,” various scientists have dared to study their effects. What they’ve …
Medical Mushrooms – The Future of Cancer Treatment?
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 …
Study: Magic Mushroom Compound Could Help with Depression
Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times At least three different formal psychiatric studies on the effects of psilocybin, extracted from “magic mushrooms”, were performed on voluntary subjects who had never experienced psychedelics before. All had similar positive results. The motive for these studies was investigating the potential for treating depression and other psychiatric maladies with psilocybin. Two …
‘Magic Mushrooms’ Can Improve Psychological Health Long Term
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 From Sleep: The Causes of Higher States of Consciousness
Steve Taylor, New Dawn Waking Times Higher states of consciousness (HSCs) – or awakening experiences, as I prefer to call them – are moments of revelation, when we perceive reality at a heightened intensity. The world around us comes to life, and is filled with an atmosphere of harmony and meaning. A spirit-force seems to …
The Second Coming of Psychedelics
Don Lattin, Spirituality & Health Waking Times Ric Godfrey had the shakes. At night, his body temperature would drop and he’d start to tremble. During the day, he was jumpy. He was always looking around, always on edge. His vibe scared the people around him. He couldn’t hang on to a job. He started drinking …
The Science of Psilocybin and the Ego-centric Brain
A recent study offers a glimpse of the effects of the drug psilocybin, which can be found in “magic” mushrooms, on the human brain.
Can Magic Mushrooms Help Cancer Patients?
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 …