Not exact matches
Dr. Carhart - Harris added: «Learning
about the mechanisms that underlie what happens under the influence of
psychedelic drugs can also help to understand their possible uses.
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms can profoundly alter the way we experience the world but little is known
about what physically happens in the brain.
This idea of cosmic consciousness ---- later transformed slightly into concepts like «expanded consciousness,» at which point, in the late 1960s, it fed into ideas
about the
psychedelic and transformative powers of LSD and other
drugs ---- is something that is comprehensible in Fleming's paintings even if you don't know a thing
about theories of the fourth dimension.
One way Pinchbeck sought to connect to a higher wisdom was by visiting and participating in initiation rites and
psychedelic drug rituals with tribes such as the Bwiti cult in Gabon - Pinchbeck also interviews Sting in the film
about the singer's
psychedelic experience taking the hallucigenic Ayahuasca in Brazil.