NuoriDaavid kirjoitti:
En vaan tajua. Kun kyseessä kuitenkin on ohimenevä aivokemian muutos, niin miten se pysyvästi vaikuttaa siihen, miten koet maailman?
Koska kokemus on niin vahva, mystinen ja syvälle menevä. Oikeassa ympäristössä ja seurassa siitä voi helposti tulla jopa " uskonollinen" kokemus, ei niitä turhan ole nimetty eräässä vanhassa kulttuurissa Teonanacatl, Jumalan liha. En ollenkaan ihmettele että uskovaiset ihmiset kokevat hardcore uskonollisia näkyjä ja kokemuksia noista, kun tällainen pakanakin herkistyy luonnon ääressä ja käy melkein palvomaan luonnon suurta fraktaalia.
On sitä sienten aiheuttamaa maailman muuttumista tutkittukin.
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Magic mushrooms can induce mystical effects, study finds
http://tinyurl.com/27h94x
A universal mystical experience with life-changing effects can be produced by the hallucinogen contained in magic mushrooms, scientists claim today.
Forty years after Timothy Leary, the apostle of drug-induced mysticism, urged his hippie followers to "tune in, turn on, and drop out", researchers at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, have for the first time demonstrated that mystical experiences can be produced safely in the laboratory. They say that there is no difference between drug-induced mystical experiences and the spontaneous religious ones that believers have reported for centuries. They are "descriptively identical".
And they argue that the potential of the hallucinogenic drugs, ignored for decades because of their links with illicit drug use in the 1960s, must be explored to develop new treatments for depression, drug addiction and the treatment of intolerable pain.
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For the US study, 30 middle-aged volunteers who had religious or spiritual interests attended two eight-hour drug sessions, two months apart, receiving psilocybin in one session and a non-hallucinogenic stimulant, Ritalin, in the other. They were not told which drug was which.
One third described the experience with psilocybin as the single most spiritually significant of their lifetimes and two thirds rated it among their five most meaningful experiences.
In more than 60 per cent of cases the experience qualified as a "full mystical experience" based on established psychological scales, the researchers say. Some likened it to the importance of the birth of their first child or the death of a parent.
The effects persisted for at least two months. Eighty per cent of the volunteers reported moderately or greatly increased well-being or life satisfaction. Relatives, friends and colleagues confirmed the changes.
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Helvettiläinen, jos joku kehtaa vertaa päihtymystilaa sellaiseen kokemukseen kuin lapsen syntymä tai vanhempien kuolema, on siinä kyllä jotain erikoista. Toisaalta, en hetkeäkään epäile etteikö kys. ihmiset todellakin kokisi kokemuksen noin tärkeäksi ja elämää muuttavaksi.
