Another interview where Ken Kesey reflects on why people are so afraid of LSD.
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For the first time ever, scientists scanned a brain on LSD using modern technology. What they saw was a more "unified brain." In the experiment, researchers scanned dozens of participants with a fMRI machine. Once after being injected with 75 micrograms of LSD and a second time with salt water.
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Psychedelics have an ancient and more recent history of medicinal-use. Administered in a supportive environment, with preparatory and integrative psychological care, psychedelic medicines are now being used to facilitate emotional breakthrough and renewed perspective.
Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Imperial College London, discusses research on Psilocybin and how psychedelics could be used in therapy to help with depression, addiction, and other problems of rigid thought patterns.
The Beckley Foundation Scientific Program conducts cutting edge research with LSD in human subjects, explores neurophysiological similarities between LSD and the mystical experience through observing modulations in the blood supply, brainwaves and a broad spectrum of cognitive changes.