"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of scientific
inquiry into potential therapeutic benefits of psilocybin. Much is new
about psilocybin as a medicine, an entheogen, and a window into human
consciousness. A New Understanding informs us, in a remarkably lively,
balanced, entertaining, engrossing and informative way."
"Psilocybin facilitates a greater likelyhood of achieving a psycho spiritual state of consciousness. A mystical mimetic experience. And the old research literature of the 50's and 60's, very strongly indicated that individuals and psychedelic research studies who experienced a spiritual epiffany during the course of their many hour treatment session, were more likely to have a long term therapeutic outcome."
"Paliative care can be activated at the time the time of diagnosis of a life threatening disease. The existential suffering. The psychospiritual distress people go through when facing advanced disease and potential death."
"What the subjects are looking for is a transformation of the experience of facing death and having a terminal illness or having a cancer diagnosis. They hope and, what we suggest to them might happen, is improvement in their tolerance for pain, an improvement in their ability to think about these really terrifying, deep existential questions of meaning, loss, dispair, hope, regret, guilt, transcendence, life after death. These topics that are so difficult to talk about and they are often avoided."
Artigos:
Pilot Study of Psilocybin Treatment for Anxiety in Patients With Advanced-Stage Cancer — aqui
Healing thyself: Does psychedelic therapy exploit the placebo effect?— aqui
Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again — aqui
This is your brain on LSD? Scientists want to find out — aqui
New Study Is The First Ever To Map The Human Brain On LSD (com vídeo) — aqui
"In this book, renowned philosopher and scholar of religion Huston Smith, takes a serious look at the use of psychedelic drugs as a means to achieve mystical union with the divine. In a unique blend of direct experience and academic depth, Smith examines this controversial subject and describes the historic and turbulent academic experiments of the sixties in which he was both a subject and an observer. Smith begins by telling the story of his own initiation into the world of psychedelic drugs in the company of Timothy Leary—a meeting arranged by Aldous Huxley—and the profound effect it had on his understanding of reality. In wrestling with the question—Do drugs have religious import?—he draws on history, theology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. He tells of fascinating experiments that attempted to shed light on this question, such as the one in which he participated as a guide, where twenty volunteers—mostly seminary students—were given psilocybin before they attended a traditional Good Friday church service. He discusses as well the use of peyote in Native American sacred rituals and the hallucinogenic plant soma in ancient India. Throughout, he does not approach the question of drugs and religion from any fixed standpoint. Instead, he mines his own experiences and his relationships to pioneers in this field to come up with insights on this intriguing subject that are not available in any other book written for the general public."
