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Study shows “Spiritual” effects of mushrooms last a year
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Maggie Fox / Reuters | July 1, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The “spiritual” effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The researchers also said their findings show there are safe ways to test psychoactive drugs on willing volunteers, if guidelines are followed.
In 2006, Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues gave psilocybin to 36 volunteers and asked them how it felt. Most reported having a “mystical” or “spiritual” experience and rated it positively.
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More than a year later, most still said the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction, Griffiths and colleagues report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
“This is a truly remarkable finding,” Griffiths said in a statement. “Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory.”
The findings may offer a way to help treat extremely anxious and depressed patients, or people with addictions, said Griffiths, whose work was funded by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
“This gives credence to the claims that the mystical-type experiences some people have during hallucinogen sessions may help patients suffering from cancer-related anxiety or depression and may serve as a potential treatment for drug dependence,” Griffiths said.
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July 1st, 2008 at 8:52 pm
mushrooms are cool
July 1st, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Cool. Give me some.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:33 pm
You see folks yet another government lie and coverup exposed just like the marijuana lie.
God gave us these plants for food and medical use and yes I beive also for recreational as well. So if God put all the good plants andhurbs and mushrooms here who is the government to call God a liar. You can if you want to I wont. and no I do not have long hair a beard and need a bath.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 am
If you wish to know more about psychoactive mushrooms, spirituality, and mystical experiences go to http://www.johnallegro.org. The site is about his book and his view points on scared mushrooms and the cross which he wrote and published in 1970. Even tho this subject matter is a highly controversial, I recomend anyone who is interested in knowing about the history and use of mushrooms to check it out.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 am
Where do I volunteer???
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Magic Mushrooms are a worthwhile natural substance to ingest. I don’t suggest driving a car or swimming while doing then, however.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
IM TRIPPIN OUT MAAANN!!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Are scorpions, snakes, belladona, death and lions God’s gift too?!?
The ancient Hebrews who have written “our” ancient testament used the mushrooms… because the mental manipulation is ancient.
Drugs, alcohol, psychotropics are just the toys for to keep us “sleepy”
Wake up!
Only those who are awaked are able to think and to act!
Pablodrifter Reply:
February 11th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Easy Mina, you don’t have to eat any if you don’t want to….but I assure you I’m well awake:)
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Mina-
Actually, yes, death is a gift from God. Only through death can one truly live. And remember Mina, not everything is all good, or all bad. I took mushrooms for the first time about a year ago, and I will never let anyone tell me that the experience was not “good”. It is a complete shift in consciousness, something this culture could use a lot more of. Although, just like pot, its not for everyone.. I saw this story on CNN… its a little weird to hear CNN talk about “the mystical”, but hey, Im all for it.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I live where they grow by the thousands…..I was a asshole redneck till I took some(only once may I add) on a dare when I was younger. Changed my whole life and the way I deal with it. Haven’t lost my temper in 30 years and have many loving friends. I was raised so wrong. In a totaly disfunctional country!!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I am in no way a redneck and took shrooms in college but the high is your body fighting off the poison you just ingested. No thanks.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Nice! In no way will I ever fear the use of drugs, regardless of what story of the day the media chooses to release into the public in order to hype up the agenda.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Gee now why haven’t I seen this story in the mainstream media?…
In other news…re: the topic of Lucifer discussed on air earlier today…
Check out this link:
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/text.....Satan.html
Lucifer was originally not demonic but from Venus and was “an angel of light.”
He was the brightest angel who refused to bow down to traditional patriarchal religion
because he knew he was ultimately also a god. Lucifer represents the primal side
and connection to original wilderness, magick, beauty and individual passions – all of which was
supressed by traditional Western religion and the social order -to its detriment. It is the repression
of Lucifer that creates Satan, the resulting evil of this self-denial and exploitation of original self.
The Freemasons invocations of Lucifer were a desire to reconnect with the original primal
magickal self – the creative powers and nature of reality that were eliminated from civilization
with industrial and capitalist trends. Similar to the djinn (genie) Iblis in Islam who says
“I will not bow down to the world of Adam, for it is only made of clay. I am pure fire!”
Also well expressed in the Jimmy Page soundtrack “Lucifer Rising.”
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:57 am
enoch7, pretty safe to say that the high is not your body fighting off poison. it’s actually a temporary change in the way your chemical receptors and transmitters react to stimulus. DMT, which is a relative of psylocybin, is used spiritually in south america, and is also produced by your pineal gland in times of extreme stress to help you cope!
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
Many natural drugs have visionary and shamanic qualities that can encourage introspective thought.
Anyone who’s ever taken (a smaller dose of) the magic mushrooms knows that everything just starts to make sense and you are able to understand the abstract connections of absolutely everything on this planet. It brings you back to a state of curiosity, innocence and free thought, which is why I beleive they are illegal.
It’s hard to controll people who actually think for themselves.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
Its food poisioning, nothing more nothing less, and you will never feel the same way about the world and your existance after one trip, its not spiritual it is absolute existentialism, you begin to feel just how small and insignificant you are as a being and that is quite humbling. More people should eat some cow dung….MMMMMM>>
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
’shrooms are poison and only show you a little bit of what is real. I think it is worth doing once and this is shown clearly by the study which uses a large sample of ‘non drug people’ who almost all report no longer being as anxious about life.
NEVER eat them, always make a tea, throw the rest away. Much lessen poison will get in your body!
Real insight comes from meditation, reflection, reading and about the world.
Taking drugs habitually for years will ruin your mind and leave you with a dead end job
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
You can get the same experience by licking a horny toad…
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
ok im going to start by saying mushrooms are the way to a clear mind. everytime i have eaten shrooms i have felt enlightend, conected, and centerd. when you eat them with people that you feel comfterble you have amazing conversations that make you think and realize what is actually going on in the world.when more that just you sees the things that “arnt” there theres got to be some kind of third eye connection. DMT is also released when you hit REM sleep this is how you dream. and notice when you can recolect your dream your feeling very calm. there is no anxiety. Shrooms let you see the world as it should be not as it is. COmplete cover up shamble of tyrany. the illuminati and the elite 12 that run the world would not like for you to see what the world can be. just what the want you to believe. Try opening mind to somthing that will let you open your mind.
“religion is Slavery”
“think for yourself and question authority”
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
The toxicity of psilocybin is relatively low; in rats, the oral LD50 is 280mg/kg, approximately one and a half times that of caffeine. When administered intravenously in rabbits, psilocybin’s LD50 is approximately 12.5mg/kg[10] (However rabbits are extremely intolerant to the effects of most psychoactive drugs). The lethal dose from psilocybin intake alone is unknown at recreational or medicinal levels, and has never been documented; psilocybin makes up roughly 1% of the weight of Psilocybe mushrooms, and so nearly 1.7 kilograms of dried mushrooms, or 17 kilograms of fresh mushrooms, would be required for a 60kg person to reach the 280mg/kg LD50 rate of rats.
Psilocybin mushrooms are not toxic. The National Institute For Occupational Safety And Heath (NIOSH) in the US Psilocybin (641) is rated less toxic than Aspirin (199) and Nicotine (21).Entheogenic Mushrooms are an amazing life form. Mushrooms, like other entheogens, have a very particular and unique character.
The effects of mushrooms are greatly effected by dose and an individual’s sensitivity to psilocybin. For some rare people .25 grams of Psilocybe Cubensis (a very small amount) is enough to propel them into full visionary states, with Open Eye Visuals, unpleasant stomach cramps or gas, and other High-Dose effects, while for others the same amount would be barely (if at all) noticeable, possibly causing a slight cold feeling during the first hour and other ‘Threshold’ effects. It is therefore important to get to know your individual reaction to small amounts of all entheogens. Be safe.
The effect-time curve of mushrooms, as with other entheogens, are characterized by a short period between ingestion and ‘Coming Up’, a short (but often experientially long) Coming Up period, a Plateau period, Coming Down, and then After Effects.
Some but not all of the following effects characterize the following effects levels. Please note that the minimum dosage indicated for Medium and High Doses are extremely low and those who reach these states with less than 1.0 gram of Cubensis are rare. You may be one of them, be careful.
Threshold Effects : (from 0.25 grams – 0.75 grams P. Cubensis)
Slight cold feeling, mild gas or nausea, nervous-feeling, slight pupil-dilation, mild visual changes including lights seeming brighter, lights having a ’starry’ look, and noticing movement at the periphery of vision, giddiness, feeling more emotionally sensitive, and many other effects related to a change in neurochemistry.
Medium Effects : (0.75 grams – 2.5 grams P. Cubensis)
‘Cold’ feeling, gas and/or stomach discomfort, nausea, pupil-dilation, open-eye visual effects: lights gain auras, star-pattern effects, rainbowing around lighting, lights seem brighter, often ‘more beautiful’, notice movement in periphery, sometimes increased ability to focus, sometimes reduced ability to focus, visual field ‘distracting’, visual field ‘entertaining’, closed eye ‘visuals’: normal closed eye ‘blobs’ take on patterns, shapes, distinct forms, increased ability to visualize creatively, spontaneous detailed images, feelings of time-dilation, feelings of `coming home again’ which is often more pronounced for those who have used mushrooms before, feelings of belonging and connection, increased emotional sensitivity, increased ability to focus on emotional problems or memories, chance of becoming ‘caught in a loop’ thinking / dwelling on a single thought or feeling (usually negative or painful), realizations about past feelings, realizations about how to live, gain a new perspective on current lifestyle and behaviors, feelings of connection with those around you, noticing things which are normally ignored or taken for granted, feelings of wonder, spirit, joy, sadness, despair, religious awakening, contentment and possibly latent psychological crises can come out..
High Dose Effects : (2.5 grams – 10 grams)
All of the Medium Effects, usually with a significantly more uncomfortable Coming Up, more pronounced nausea sometimes (rarely) resulting in vomiting, sometimes significant mental discomfort associated with feelings of fear and often times accompanying a “what have I done to myself” or “how far am I going” thought, the unpleasant Coming Up effects usually lessen with familiarity and more knowledge about the safety and character of mushroom effects. High Dose Effects are usually characterized by the closed eye visualizations being significantly more elaborate and enfolding, religious revelation, spiritual awakening, near death experiences, loss of self, talking to seemingly external, autonomous entities, extreme emotional responses, repressed memories coming to life, latent psychological crises can come to the surface, an increase in artistic sense, and intense feelings of wonder, connection, joy, fear. High Dose Effects can also include extreme time-dilation, with experiences of wall-clock minutes taking an experientially large amount of time, watching clocks or digital counters where the seconds seem to take minutes to count off. One of the most interesting effects is the feeling of awakening for the first time ever from a previous state of sleep, of liberation from what is now seen as a life-long state of bondage. Paradoxically, it is this new awareness which feels normal and natural and the previous fog which is seen to have been unreal all along. The bemushroomed seeker is convinced that, once gained, this awareness is impossible to lose, but inexplicably by the next day it is just a memory.
Thats pretty much what I could find on MM