NEW YORK - People who took an illegal drug made from mushrooms reported profound mystical experiences that led to behavior changes lasting for weeks — all part of an experiment that recalls the psychedelic ’60s. Two months later, 24 of the participants filled out a questionnaire. Two-thirds called their reaction to psilocybin one of the five top most meaningful experiences of their lives. On another measure, one-third called it the most spiritually significant experience of their lives, with another 40 percent ranking it in the top five.
That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say “they can’t possibly put it into words,” Griffiths said. But don’t try this at home, he warned. “Absolutely don’t.”
That last statement is nothing but motivation to do the opposite - somewhere between "just say no" and "this Bud's for you."
I have this feeling that somewhere, Timothy Leary is doing back handsprings...
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that's fabulous. but "a merging with ultimate reality?" is this from my highschool boyfriend's zine?
Was his last name Leary?
This is cool and all, but what would the effects be for a person whose spirituality is limited to The Church of Insignificant Trivia?
The superfluous becomes the sublime, of course.
Looks like I'll be trying some of this at home!
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