Psilocybin and Bipolar Disorder

Researchers collected survey data from over 500 people with bipolar disorder about their experiences using psilocybin, the results of which were published in a previous paper.

One third of those participants said they experienced “new or increasing symptoms” following psilocybin use, but overall, participants indicated that they believed psilocybin was not harmful.

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Mushrooms and Christmas?

Some historians believe that mushrooms may have sprouted several mainstream Christmas traditions.

As Salon recently reported, the concept of Santa may have been inspired by indigenous Siberian and Northern European shamans who traveled around conducting healing ceremonies during the winter solstice using a type of hallucinogenic mushroom called amanita muscaria, or the fly agaric.

What do you think?!

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Belief Changes with Psychedelics

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers continue their exploration into psychedelics and how these drugs may produce a wide range of profound changes in perception, cognition and mood.

In a recent study, published on Nov. 1 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research explored belief changes related to psychedelic experiences.

They found that a single psychedelic experience increased a range of nonphysicalist beliefs as well as beliefs about consciousness, meaning and purpose.

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