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Category: psychedelic medicine
December 30, 2011
December 4, 2011
The Ayahuasca Project
Definitely watch and share this trailer for a gorgeous looking documentary about ayahuasca shamanism, science and it’s use in treating Westerners afflicted with addictions and severe emotional traumas, as pioneered by the work of two doctors; Dr. Jacques Mabit, who “runs a legendary detox centre deep in the Peruvian jungle”and Dr. Gabor Maté, a lionhearted addiction specialist valiantly trying to establish a similar program in Canada. It is seeking completion funding on KickStarter so if you like the trailer please learn more by watching the Kickstarter video.
November 12, 2011
Mom Shares Psychedelic Drugs with Dying Daughter
After reading this lovely review by David Jay Brown of Honor Thy Daughter, I’m definitely adding this to my reading list.
October 14, 2011
Dispensary director shocks Fox anchor with her message to the medical marijuana movement
The director of one of California’s non-profit medical cannabis organizations that is being attacked by the Obama administration stuns right-wing FOX pundit when she calls for her community and supporters to register Republican and vote for Ron Paul in the primaries as a PROTEST to what Obama is doing!
If you want to see Obama debate Paul on the wars, the drug war, Wall St., the bailouts, the Patriot Act, habeus corpus, civil liberties, human rights, the Federal Reserve… if you care about any of these issues, then why not VOICE that concern and vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primaries?
******Attn NEW YORKERS and NEW HAMPSHIRITES, TODAY, Friday Oct 14th, is the LAST DAY you can register to vote your states closed primaries To find out more about how to register, or more about your states rules, go to bluerepublican.us for more info.]
October 13, 2011
Providing a Better Living Through Chemistry to a Generation.
An exquisite 8 minute documentary-style interview with Nick Sand, the chemical revolutionary who synthesized the renowned Orange Sunshine and was the first person to discover the effects of DMT could be experienced by smoking it.
October 7, 2011
Slate: Did Dropping Acid Make Steve Jobs More Creative?
Apple founder and tech visionary Steve Jobs died on Wednesday. Jobs was heavily influenced by 1960s counterculture, and once told a reporter that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things” he did in his life. Can LSD really make you more creative?
October 7, 2011
Occupy The Mind – Legalize DMT.
DMT is chemical produced and used by the human nervous system. It can be found in almost any plant or animal species and is a psychedelic chemical that is used in shamanic healing practices of South America. DMT is also listed as a Schedule 1 substance. According to the US government, not only are nature and shamanism illegal, but so are YOU, of possession AND manufacturing of an “illegal narcotic.”
September 29, 2011
New John Hopkins psilocybin paper published in Journal of Psychopharmacology
Media coverage:
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ABC News Want to Be More Open-Minded? Magic Mushrooms Found to Help
CBS News Magic mushrooms improve personality? What study says
LiveScience ‘Magic Mushrooms’ May Permanently Alter Personality
Science Daily ‘Single Dose of ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Hallucinogen May Create Lasting Personality Change, Study Suggests’
TIME ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Can Improve Psychological Health Long Term
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KA MacLean, MW Johnson, and RR Griffiths. 2011. “Mystical experiences occasioned by the hallucinogen psilocybin lead to increases in the personality domain of openness.“ Journal of Psychopharmacology, 29 Sept.
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A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no study has demonstrated changes in personality in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event. Intriguingly, double-blind controlled studies have shown that the classic hallucinogen psilocybin occasions personally and spiritually significant mystical experiences that predict long-term changes in behaviors, attitudes and values. In the present report we assessed the effect of psilocybin on changes in the five broad domains of personality – Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Consistent with participant claims of hallucinogen-occasioned increases in aesthetic appreciation, imagination, and creativity, we found significant increases in Openness following a high-dose psilocybin session. In participants who had mystical experiences during their psilocybin session, Openness remained significantly higher than baseline more than 1 year after the session. The findings suggest a specific role for psilocybin and mystical-type experiences in adult personality change.
June 25, 2011
UN attempting to outlaw all sacred plants (Ayahuasca, Iboga, etc.). SIGN PETITION!!
Important message from Luis Eduardo;
Dear friends,
I urge you to sign this petition. Once more, this is an attack against the cultural and spiritual heritage of non-western people, a continuation of conquest and colonization of the word by people with a very limited worldview.
Best regards,
Luis Eduardo
The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has published on their website their annual report about the world situation on drugs in 2010. In this report, the INCB has included the preoccupying recommendation towards governments to outlaw traditional plants such as Ayahuasca (a decoction made with botanicals like Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria Viridis) andTabernanthe Iboga among others, neglecting their important role as traditional medicine, as a sacrament and as therapeutic tool. These are the primary uses of these plants found in societies all over the world.
The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS) is organizing a letter-writing campaign to counter this demonic injustice. Please read more about this issue and add your signature here, and take a moment to browse the beautiful website of ICEERS.org.
April 24, 2011
Prolific interviewer David Jay Brown interviewed.
Excellent, short interview with David Jay Brown who himself has been interviewing many of the most brilliant, psychedelic, and forward-thinking people on the planet for the past 20 years. He’s also the current editor of the MAPS Bulletin and continues to publish his provocative interviews.
