singular_me
5th December 2016, 05:13 AM
Not for everybody but surely a way to heal the global and generational trauma of war that makes societies repeat it over and over. The trauma of war (and therefore materialistic and spiritual abandonment) IS depression at its finest and religions for the mainstream have just succeed to make it more acute over the millennia. Meanwhile those at the top do know. Indeed, govs would lose their grip if materialism based on the fear of insecurity was no longer possible to be implemented.
(EXCELLENT LINK)
http://mushroomsinchristianart.blogspot.com/
The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity
Allegro asserts that it's not such a controversial idea that ((ALL)) religions could be based on the use of psychedelic plants.
posted by hitch: what a shaman sees in a mental hospital
(unfortunately thread was derailed many times by mindless comments)
http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?86817-What-a-Shaman-Sees-in-a-Mental-Hospital&highlight=shaman+sees+hospital
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First Major Clinical Trials Show Magic Mushrooms Heal Mental Illness Like A 'Surgical Intervention'
5 December 2016 GMT
‘In June 2015 we reported on the re-emerging field of using psychedelics to treat mental illness, with psilocybin, in particular, showing great promise for chronic anxiety and depression. Western medicine began realizing its potential in the 1940s, but medical research was stamped out with the War on Drugs.
Now, as the injustice of the drug war is fully exposed, research is again turning to the amazing, natural power of psilocybin. William Richards at Johns Hopkins University has been dosing people with psilocybin for 15 years, and in 2006 published his first study demonstrating positive therapeutic results.
That study provided the impetus for a rapid expansion in psychedelic research. On December 1, results of the first two major clinical trials were published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology – showing yet again psilocybin’s remarkable effect on depression and end-of-life stress.’
The studies are titled:
http://jop.sagepub.com/content/30/12/1165.full
Rapid and sustained symptom reduction following psilocybin treatment for anxiety and depression in patients with life-threatening cancer: a randomized controlled trial
Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer: A randomized double-blind trial
Authors of the first study summarize their results as follows:
Prior to the crossover, psilocybin produced immediate, substantial, and sustained improvements in anxiety and depression and led to decreases in cancer-related demoralization and hopelessness, improved spiritual wellbeing, and increased quality of life. At the 6.5-month follow-up, psilocybin was associated with enduring anxiolytic and anti-depressant effects (approximately 60–80% of participants continued with clinically significant reductions in depression or anxiety), sustained benefits in existential distress and quality of life, as well as improved attitudes towards death. The psilocybin-induced mystical experience mediated the therapeutic effect of psilocybin on anxiety and depression.
In both studies, there were no serious adverse events, although less than 18 percent of patients experienced some degree of nausea, headache or other symptoms that did not require medical intervention.
The experience for some patients was nothing short of amazing. Dinah Bazer, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was consumed with fear and anxiety. However, the psilocybin treatment allowed her to visualize her fear as a physical mass which she confronted and expelled.
Bazer is a self-proclaimed atheist, but she described her subsequent state of mind in spiritual terms.
“I was bathed in God’s love, and that continued for hours,” said Bazer. “I really had no other way to describe this incredibly powerful experience.”
Her fear, depression, and anxiety have not returned.
more
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/12/first-major-clinical-trials-show-magic-mushrooms-heal-mental-illness-like-a-surgical-intervention.html
(EXCELLENT LINK)
http://mushroomsinchristianart.blogspot.com/
The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity
Allegro asserts that it's not such a controversial idea that ((ALL)) religions could be based on the use of psychedelic plants.
posted by hitch: what a shaman sees in a mental hospital
(unfortunately thread was derailed many times by mindless comments)
http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?86817-What-a-Shaman-Sees-in-a-Mental-Hospital&highlight=shaman+sees+hospital
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First Major Clinical Trials Show Magic Mushrooms Heal Mental Illness Like A 'Surgical Intervention'
5 December 2016 GMT
‘In June 2015 we reported on the re-emerging field of using psychedelics to treat mental illness, with psilocybin, in particular, showing great promise for chronic anxiety and depression. Western medicine began realizing its potential in the 1940s, but medical research was stamped out with the War on Drugs.
Now, as the injustice of the drug war is fully exposed, research is again turning to the amazing, natural power of psilocybin. William Richards at Johns Hopkins University has been dosing people with psilocybin for 15 years, and in 2006 published his first study demonstrating positive therapeutic results.
That study provided the impetus for a rapid expansion in psychedelic research. On December 1, results of the first two major clinical trials were published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology – showing yet again psilocybin’s remarkable effect on depression and end-of-life stress.’
The studies are titled:
http://jop.sagepub.com/content/30/12/1165.full
Rapid and sustained symptom reduction following psilocybin treatment for anxiety and depression in patients with life-threatening cancer: a randomized controlled trial
Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer: A randomized double-blind trial
Authors of the first study summarize their results as follows:
Prior to the crossover, psilocybin produced immediate, substantial, and sustained improvements in anxiety and depression and led to decreases in cancer-related demoralization and hopelessness, improved spiritual wellbeing, and increased quality of life. At the 6.5-month follow-up, psilocybin was associated with enduring anxiolytic and anti-depressant effects (approximately 60–80% of participants continued with clinically significant reductions in depression or anxiety), sustained benefits in existential distress and quality of life, as well as improved attitudes towards death. The psilocybin-induced mystical experience mediated the therapeutic effect of psilocybin on anxiety and depression.
In both studies, there were no serious adverse events, although less than 18 percent of patients experienced some degree of nausea, headache or other symptoms that did not require medical intervention.
The experience for some patients was nothing short of amazing. Dinah Bazer, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was consumed with fear and anxiety. However, the psilocybin treatment allowed her to visualize her fear as a physical mass which she confronted and expelled.
Bazer is a self-proclaimed atheist, but she described her subsequent state of mind in spiritual terms.
“I was bathed in God’s love, and that continued for hours,” said Bazer. “I really had no other way to describe this incredibly powerful experience.”
Her fear, depression, and anxiety have not returned.
more
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/12/first-major-clinical-trials-show-magic-mushrooms-heal-mental-illness-like-a-surgical-intervention.html