Sentences with phrase «like psychedelic drugs»

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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.

At a handful of sites across the country, after a four - decade hiatus, psychedelic research is undergoing a quiet renaissance, thanks to scientists like Charles Grob who are revisiting the powerful mind - altering drugs of the 1960s in hopes of making them part of our therapeutic arsenal.

Psychedelic drugs are unique among other psychoactive chemicals in that users often describe «expanded consciousness,» including enhanced associations, vivid imagination and dream - like states.

From synthetic hazes to fungus - induced crazes, psychedelic drug use on film has attempted to capture exactly what it feels like to freak out and lose all control amidst sensory overload, which, as we've learned from the ten following flicks, can be life - changing or, in some cases, nothing short of terrifying.

One - third fairy tale (literally), one - third musical and one - third social commentary on the nature of love, its weird visuals and eclectic songbook will make adults feel like they've consumed some crazy psychedelic drug; however, younger viewers may find its colorful and song - heavy stimuli generally entertaining.

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.

Even collage works such as Untitled (Second Stage Injector), 1963, and Algae, Algae, c. 1961 - 63, like the aforementioned sculptures, employ humor and psychedelic imagery to reference utopian ideals and the drug - induced haze of 1960s counterculture.