Source: Yahoo! News
A recent article by Associated Press reports on the benefits of psychedelic mushrooms. The article comes as a response to a breakthrough study that was originally undertaken at Johns Hopkins University in 2002, and has now been updated with current feedback from the participants.
Along with another study on DMT done recently by Dr Rick Strassman, these are the first publicised and funded pieces of research done on psychedelics for decades, after sacred plants were deemed too powerful for the collective unconscious and banned by the global power elite. It's really heartening that the study was allowed to go ahead, considering that psilocybin mushrooms and psychedelics in general are still highly illegal and taboo in Western culture.
Anyhow, the follow-up study has revealed that participants have benefitted from some long-term positive effects; these include feelings of well-being, psychological healing, and spiritual awakening. To cut to the chase:
"Fourteen months after taking the drug, 64 percent of the volunteers said they still felt at least a moderate increase in well-being or life satisfaction, in terms of things like feeling more creative, self-confident, flexible and optimistic. And 61 percent reported at least a moderate behavior change in what they considered positive ways."
A word of warning:
"Experts emphasize that people should not try psilocybin on their own because it could be harmful." I agree, be careful kids, just say no.
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