Sounds like a negative effect to me.
What could possibly go wrong?
Interesting. I like the potential for fighting depression. Might be an improvement on the current batch of psychotropic drugs.
When I say the Lord’s prayer, I always say “Deliver me from Ego”....
“put your brain in a “waking dream,” study finds”
I think we used to call that hallucinating.
Nothing new here.
There are many types of varying potency - the mushrooms people call liberty caps grow wild around here and are easy to identify. Drive by a dairy farm field in the fall and there might be someone out there on the hunt.
Gee, just imagine. A whole population, just like that looney-toon Toronto mayor.
A friend was telling me just yesterday about some guy who fixes his crippling ongoing migraines by taking this. It supposedly keeps them away for months when nothing else worked.
Won’t happen. Big pharma will slap it down as they always do.
If one decides to pick wild shrooms, keep some milk-thistle extract on hand, it will save your liver and kidneys
“Research suggests they may have permanent, positive effects on the human brain.”
The left has been pushing this line of thought since the early sixties, I’d not late 50’s.
Tim Leary began on this bus.
Leary was even writing how LSD or psilocybin could be used for homosexual reparative therapy. He argued that under the right circumstances, a homosexual under the influence of such a drug could essentially be reprogrammed to respond to women.
Over the decades they’ve tried to promote the related class of methoxylated amphetamines, such as ecstasy, for the same ostensibly therapeutic purposes.
None the less, this study sounds fascinating and makes sense given serotonin’s role in sleep.
I wonder what hallucinogens Barry the Light Worker used, and how often?