By John Horgan — 2010
If psychedelics are placebos, they should perhaps be called hyperactive placebos, because their psychotropic effects are so dramatic.
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Traditionally, psychedelics (as well as other experiences, like Holotropic Breathwork) are coupled with practices that confirm, extend, and expand the insights intrinsic to altered states.
What I will focus on are the psychological factors that influence people’s judgments about what is real and how these might explain why people come to believe in the existence of such beings.
Here, we asked Graham Hancock about plant medicine, the purpose and meaning of hallucinogenic experiences, and what bigger opportunities he sees for humanity in all of this.
My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard.
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Roland Griffiths' psilocybin experiments have produced striking evidence for therapeutic uses of hallucinogens.
In a survey of thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with God, researchers report that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic.
The late chemist Albert Hofmann discussed his psychedelic research on LSD in the July, 1976 issue of High Times.