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.
John Halpern, a research psychiatrist at Harvard, says he suspects that
psychedelic compounds such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline stimulate «a center in the brain that is involved in spirituality.»
A study in which patients were treated for depression with psilocybin (magic
mushroom psychedelic compound) revealed reduced symptoms weeks after the psilocybin treatment.
When it comes to
psychedelic compounds, DMT is in a league of its own, as the only hallucinogen our body produces naturally.