After a psychedelic trip on magic mushrooms, people often describe the experience as mind-expanding, consciousness altering, emotionally insightful and even spiritually transcendent. Now, scientists have peered into the brains of people tripping on psilocybin — the active ingredient in mushrooms — and their results revealed a few surprises.
Instead of opening lines of communication between sensory-oriented regions of the brain, psilocybin appears to shut down activity in two key areas of the brain that regulate our sense of self and integrate our sense of awareness with our sense of the present.
The drug also decreases activity in something called the default mode network, which is believed to be involved in maintaining a balanced sense of consciousness and ego through self-reflection, though scientists still don’t entirely understand the network or agree about what it does.
The more these brain areas were suppressed, the researchers report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the more intense people reported their changes in perception to be.Besides helping explain how magic mushrooms induce hallucinogenic adventures of the mind, the results suggest that, in controlled settings, psilocybin might be a useful tool for treating depression and other psychiatric problems
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and like weed…. it is God given and grows freely……
the only reason we are not allowed is because the pharmecutical buisness is THE biggest in the world………………. the BIGGEST money maker for the government…… remember our friends the scientists that worked for the government?……… Professor Nutt…..
Now I love a Pipe as much as the next bloke , But due to the nature of man and especially depressed man, drugs will more then likely just mask the initial inner problem creating dependence to “Maintain”
I have done mushroom’s and they have changed me as a human being for the better.
drugs have the principles of alchemy, alchemy itself is not
bad or good, depends on who and how to use
AND THAT’S WHAT THE PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND U_U
it´s all about the setting, which is known to mankind for some thousand years now…. unfortunately this knowledge is being suppressed in the last some hundred years. ask some 1st nation shaman for advice
Yeh, speaking from experience….I doubt it
@ pam, yeah its god given and grows freely but so do many plants that will kill you if ingested or smoked. That argument is greatly flawed.
Yeah Free Shrooms