Sentences with phrase «psychedelic drugs»

I am interested in formalizing and seeking recognition for the religious use of psychedelic drugs in the US via an institution similar but not identical to the Santo Daime Church.

Unfortunately, that is hard to do with the current disincentives on using psychedelic drugs in scientific tests.

SF: In the early 1970s, when I worked on Handbook in Motion and had recently had a lot of experience with psychedelic drugs, I was very concerned with harmonics.

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).

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

To uncover these and other neural consequences of LSD, Carhart - Harris and his colleagues recruited 20 volunteers by word of mouth, selecting prior psychedelic drug users to minimize the risk of frightening effects.

Sam Wong reports men with colour blindness dropping out of a study on psychedelic drugs because of visual effects (17...

At the time, academics were beginning to argue that it and other psychedelic drugs could be a useful ally in psychotherapy.

Editorial illustration for an article entitled «Mind Menders» focusing on how psychedelic drugs rebuild broken brains

Bullet hell arcade madness at its finest, Hyperlight EX is an incredibly frantic, psychedelic drug trip through space as you pilot a ship at the speed of light through hordes of evil alien monsters.

All you need is an open mind — although a willingness to try psychedelic drugs may help.

«The findings are impressive, with good safety data and large effect sizes,» says Robin Carhart - Harris, who studies psychedelic drugs at Imperial College London.

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.

The test subjects were made up of people who had tried strong psychedelic drugs before.

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

Mescaline, together with psilocybin, another natural psychoactive compound produced by «magic» mushrooms, and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD or, simply, acid), a potent synthetic psychedelic drug, became widely popular in the 1960s counterculture.

People are increasingly taking daily, low doses of illegal psychedelic drugs to up their game at work and improve their mood.

The first psychedelic drug treatment centre in the US plans to help users of LSD, magic mushrooms and other hallucinogens come to terms with their experiences

New studies — prompted by a renewed interest in potential applications of psychedelic drugs for understanding the brain or even treating some psychiatric diseases — suggest that far - reaching changes in brain connectivity contribute to the altered states of consciousness and other effects of an acid trip.

It is the first time we have used these methods to look at brain imaging data and it has given some fascinating insight into how psychedelic drugs expand the mind.

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 do precisely this and so are powerful tools for exploring what happens in the brain when consciousness is profoundly altered.

They even react in similar ways to stimuli like psychedelic drugs.

Psychedelic drugs act through the serotonin 2A receptor (5 - HT2AR) and elicit a head - twitch response (HTR) in mice that directly correlates to 5 - HT2AR activation.

Researchers looking at the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs found increased neural signals in the brain scans of people given them.

But research into the potential benefits of psychedelic drugs ground to a halt in the early 1970s, after the federal government criminalized LSD and psilocybin — and after the drugs were eagerly adopted by college students and the hippie counterculture.

TUESDAY, Nov. 14, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- A powerful psychedelic drug out of South America might help battle both depression and alcoholism, a new British survey suggests.

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.

Psychedelic drugs often conjure images of the colorful, mind - bending world of 1960s counterculture.

Michael Pollan investigates the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs.

Speaking of the American Psychedelic Drug Era, I recommend a VH - 1 Documentary Series «The Drug Years».

Advocates of LSD, such as Dr. Timothy Leary and the Merry Pranksters, brought the term into public consciousness, consequently creating national controversy about psychedelic drug usage.

It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate choice than Glaser for the jacket design of Tom Wolfe's account of late - 1960s psychedelic drug culture through the experience of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.

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.

The patients in the study were given a number of bizarre treatments, including psychedelic drugs such as LSD and participating in naked encounter groups, in an effort to break down their defenses.

They found that ex-inmates who took psychedelic drugs were «less likely to be arrested for domestic violence than their sober compatriots».

«What we have done in this research is begin to identify the biological basis of the reported mind expansion associated with psychedelic drugs,» said Dr Robin Carhart - Harris from the Department of Medicine, Imperial College London.

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).

Bullet hell arcade madness at its finest, Hyperlight EX is an incredibly frantic, psychedelic drug trip through space as you pilot a ship at the speed of light through hordes of evil alien monsters.

Leary's research on psychedelic drugs — not to mention his use and advocacy — led President Richard Nixon to call him «the most dangerous man in America.»

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.

While research on the benefits of psychedelic drugs took place in the 1950 to the 1970s, primarily to treat mental illness, it was stopped due to the reclassification of the drugs to a controlled substance in the mid-1970s.

Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency in charge of media, pulled the plug on the open forum because it contains advice on how to grow «magic mushrooms», a psychedelic drug.

Ayahuasca is a psychedelic drug that induces mind - boggling hallucinations, and it's Silicon Valley's latest obsession.

Other charities that have benefited from the organization include healthcare outsourcing platform Watsi; The Water Project; the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital - rights activism group; MAPS, an organization that studies therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana; the medical nonprofit SENS Research Foundation; and charity: water.

You are having chemical hallucinations when you take psychedelic drugs.

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.

Without Heard, some of the major spiritual developments of 20th - century America - the introduction of Eastern mysticism, the development of the human potential movement and the spiritual use of psychedelic drugs - might never have happened.