Sentences with phrase «as psychedelic»

One could also look to early concert posters from the Fillmore or Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco as psychedelic precedents; optical advertising for an experience rather than product.

Ganesh's works harness a broad range of visual referents, drawing equally from German expressionism and Japanese woodblock prints, and contemporary visual idioms such as psychedelic print culture, anime, and comics.

In 2012, Carol Diehl wrote: «Takenaga's work has been described as psychedelic, but that implies a loss of control, where these paintings are the result of acute attention.

The show gathers artists whose work exudes a deep interest in pattern and decoration, with a specific relation to textiles and fabric as well as psychedelic imagery.

A number of the paintings update the tradition of sublime landscape painting: think the Hudson River School rendered in neon colors or a Caspar David Friedrich painting re-conceptualized as a psychedelic experience.

It employs the motif of marker bleeding through a page to propel the narrative, each image repeating in mirror form and interacting with a new one on its facing page, as a psychedelic cast of creatures twists and turns.

Adding an innovative twist to each game are new Challenge Modes such as the psychedelic Trippy Mode, Time Warp and Double Speed, all of which push player's skills to the extreme, while a new 3D interface offers a polished portal into all the games.

Hatched by a team of industry veterans who previously worked on tentpole franchises in the vein of Fallout and Gears of War, the horror - tinged RPG is pitched as a psychedelic experience based on Francis Ford Coppola's seminal Vietnam masterclass.

Lively bidding, so be prepared to raise your paw and don't forget to bring $ $ $ as psychedelic spirits will be served by GRRI - NJ to benefit rescue.

Hitmen (and possibly a hitwoman) carry out revenge plots as psychedelic neon lights suffuse their dark world.

I could talk about how Aronofsky is emulating the look and feel of a motion picture like Louis Malle's Black Moon, but as bona fide nuts as that psychedelic 1975 effort is it's still nothing to the lunacy that transpires here.

Gemini starts with a black screen, then cuts to a girl holding an iPhone in a car, moonlight catching her face, as psychedelic electronica...

It's best known as a psychedelic club drug that makes people hallucinate, but it may also have the ability to ease depression — and fast.

By messing with insect neurochemistry, psilocybin may act as a psychedelic repellent.

The catch is that these substances, known as psychedelics, have been outlawed for decades.

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The article also misstated the amount that an anonymous donor known as Pine transferred in Bitcoin to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Then the psychedelic path will lead over the bridge of cybernation; and with Herbert Marcuse as guru emeritus, Norman O. Brown as classicist in residence, and William F. Buckley, Jr., as anti-utopian court jester, we will establish the new - consciousness Camelot, telling the little ones tales of old Greenwich Village, the Haight, Millbrook, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, of all the lotus - eating cadres of the leisure class....

It was at the epicentre of the Jesus People movement, which saw thousands of hippies, surfers and beatniks come to Christ as they swapped psychedelic drugs and rock and roll for the Holy Spirit and a new wave of folk - rock worship music.

It's no surprise, then, that, as music critic and Haggard biographer David Cantwell points out, two days after «Okie» hit the top 100 charts, President Nixon delivered a speech written by Patrick Buchanan on the «silent majority» who didn't protest or yell or want free love or psychedelic drugs.

In the counterculture it revealed its religious thrust almost everywhere, linked as it was to psychedelic experimentation and an intense interest in the occult.

If the «evil» existences managed to win this round, because the theater enterprise was cutting corners and for whatever other reason, such as that maybe the perpetrator was on psychedelic medication by who knows what age and for what reason, and was playing video games with center theme to shoot, slice and k!!

The psychedelic influence of the label artwork, designed by Marq Spusta as part of Dogfish Head's Off - Centered Art Series, was influenced by the legacy of the Flaming Lips and the culinary components in Dragons & YumYums shown through radiating lines, movement of fire, dancing lips, rainbows and bold pink colors.

I think if I were in a psychedelic hippie band, it would be known as Emily and the Sweet Potato Experience.

And for anyone who suspects that hemp brownies are truly a throwback to the 60s, let me say, first of all, that the hemp seeds in these are the edible kind, so you are not ingesting any mind - altering chemicals whatsoever here (unless you count the flood of serotonins in the brain due to their heavenly taste); and second of all, hemp is not the same thing as hash, and of course the classic hippie confection was a hash brownie; and third of all, how the heck would I even know, because I never did manage to consume any of the latter, even in my undergrad days, because I am such a nerd that nobody ever offered me any, and hash brownies never appealed to me, anyway — I mean, why sully your chocolate with psychedelic drugs?

The neuropsychopharmacologist suggests a more novel approach might involve psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin, which have potential antidepressant effects.

Scientists suggest that some psychedelics are remarkably good at treating disorders like depression — and may now have a clue as to why

Their experiences serve as testimony for treating mental disorders with the stigmatized drugs, though Shroder makes it clear that altering society's perception of psychedelics is a formidable task.

Early one morning last July, Genise had taken a little white capsule containing the psychedelic as part of a medically supervised study to test whether it could ease the mental anguish of people with terminal cancer.

Not long after, Grob witnessed the salutary effects of psychedelics when he was invited by a colleague to do a privately funded investigation of the emotional health of people who regularly ingested these substances as part of their religion.

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

Psychedelics are classified as Schedule 1 drugs by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which outlaws their use outside a research setting.

The 21 - patient study, sponsored by the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), launched in 2004 as the first U.S. clinical trial of a psychedelic drug iPsychedelic Studies (MAPS), launched in 2004 as the first U.S. clinical trial of a psychedelic drug ipsychedelic drug in 35 years.

Eventually, though, this research may lead to more precisely targeted therapeutics for the disorders psychedelics seem to help, such as OCD and other compulsive ills, like bulimia and anorexia.

Indeed, it is now quite certain that the characteristic subjective and behavioral effects of psychedelics are initiated via stimulation of serotonin 2A receptors (known as 5 - HT2A) on cortical neurons.

A polarizing microscope caught this psychedelic liquid crystal film as it spread over the surface of glycerine.

One early advocate of psychedelic therapy was William Wilson, known more familiarly as Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935.

His study nonetheless indicates that psychedelics as a class may not «burn out» the brain.

When not given psilocybin, the subjects received methylphenidate, more commonly known as Ritalin, which shares some of the pharmacological effects of its psychedelic counterpart.

One of the most notable aspects of the psychedelic experience is a phenomenon known as the dissolution of the ego, in which users feel somehow detached from themselves.

«While not a clinical trial, this study, in stark contrast to prevailing attitudes that views these drugs as harmful, speaks to the public health potential of psychedelic medicine,» says Assoc. Prof. Zach Walsh, the co-director for UBC Okanagan's Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law.

They found that those psychedelic effects of LSD were erased when participants took a second drug called ketanserin that blocked the ability of LSD to act on serotonin receptors known as 5 - HT2ARs.

They also included, in the mid-1900s, the powerful psychedelic compound lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, that is still being studied and has been widely used as an illegal recreational drug.

Now, researchers who've studied how perceptions of meaning change when people take the psychedelic drug known as LSD have traced that sense of meaningfulness to particular neurochemicals and receptors in the brain.

Combine your articles on psilocybin and other psychedelic drugs having beneficial effects on the brain (such as 25 November 2017, p 28) with the promising reports of 40 hertz bass tones and flickering lights reducing the tangles and plaques of tau and amyloid proteins that are correlated with Alzheimer's disease (6 January, p 6).

The UBC Okanagan study found that 42 per cent of U.S. adult male inmates who did not take psychedelic drugs were arrested within six years for domestic battery after their release, compared to a rate of 27 per cent for those who had taken drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (commonly known as magic mushrooms) and MDMA (ecstasy).

They have also done a pilot study on psilocybin as a therapeutic option in individuals with treatment - resistant depression, and are interested in possible roles for psychedelics in combating mental illnesses or addiction.

Psychologists have occasionally given people psychedelic drugs such as LSD or magic mushrooms to induce altered states, in an attempt to treat mental illness.

Alongside sensory distortions such as visual hallucinations, a common psychedelic experience is a feeling that the boundary between one's self and the rest of the world is dissolving.

One of the most reliable — and reversible — ways to alter your sense of self is to ingest psychedelic drugs such as LSD or psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.

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.