By Helen Fisher — 2015
One-night stands and friends with benefits are just what your brain ordered.
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In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...
Ganzflicker is known to elicit the experience of anomalous sensory information in the external environment, called pseudo-hallucinations.
Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are being tested to treat mental illness. They're also expanding our understanding about human consciousness.
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In mice and one person, scientists were able to reproduce the altered state often associated with ketamine by inducing certain brain cells to fire together in a slow, rhythmic fashion.
In Tibetan Buddhism, there’s a mystical concept known as “thukdam” or “tukdam,” in which an experienced meditator can slip into a state of mind said to be accessible at the time of death.
There is one way to reach altered states of consciousness that is related to the heights of spiritual love. It is healthy for body and mind by all means and can be shared with a partner. I am writing about sex.