Medical Mushrooms

**geomorph** · 04-13-2010, 09:12 AM

Get this passed along with medical marijuana in your state =

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/sc...ml?ref=science

After taking the hallucinogen, Dr. Martin put on an eye mask and headphones, and lay on a couch listening to classical music as he contemplated the universe.

“All of a sudden, everything familiar started evaporating,” he recalled. “Imagine you fall off a boat out in the open ocean, and you turn around, and the boat is gone. And then the water’s gone. And then you’re gone.”

Today, more than a year later, Dr. Martin credits that six-hour experience with helping him overcome his depression and profoundly transforming his relationships with his daughter and friends. He ranks it among the most meaningful events of his life, which makes him a fairly typical member of a growing club of experimental subjects.

**OldLarry** · 04-13-2010, 09:13 AM

queue Altered States http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/

**splat** · 04-13-2010, 09:42 AM

I read that article with a big smile on my face yesterday.
As Albert Hoffman said (paraphrased) before his death:

If everyone experienced the universe on LSD and realized we are interconnected as parts of the whole, there would be no war. That's why governments are afraid of it.

**mdblows** · 04-13-2010, 12:33 PM

Got some "medical" mushrooms of my own growing right now

**Professor Chaos** · 04-13-2010, 12:57 PM

A friend just sent me this article.
Really glad such progress is taking place again after such a long hiatus.

This topic is of great interest to me(both personally and academically).
If your interested in learning more check out MAPS - Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Books to consider:
From Chocolate to Morphine by Andrew Weil
The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary
Buzzed (more focused on use, abuse and treatment).