Actual research on psychadelics starting up again (or really for the first time) | Thread profile

http://www.newsweek.com/id/144399/page/1 Quote: It's been more than a year since John Hayes , a professor of pastoral counseling at Loyola College, ingested psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms. He claims that the series of three eight-hour highs, administered—in a laboratory-turned-living room at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore—have ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ash Plissken Jeez, this stuff really does turn you into a hippie. Seeing as how much of hippie spirituality was defined by the experience these drugs provoke, I'm not surprised. That, and a sloppy import of Eastern philosophy, but still.

Quote: He claims that the series of three eight-hour highs, administered—in a laboratory-turned-living room at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore—have made him a calmer, less fearful person. "It gave me this sense that space and time are human constructions that can collapse," says Hayes, 59. "The ultimate reality is something beyond those constructions, and ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Spin I've always felt that the profundity of the experience demands the attention of anyone seriously interesting in cognitive science. Leary and his cohorts didn't study the drugs with the scientific discipline they would have needed to be credible (they basically just moved out into the country and did ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Arctyc Scientific investigation is good. But numbers can be massaged any direction you want. There are 3 types of lies, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.

Quote: Originally Posted by Arctyc Quote: 36 volunteers, most of whom detailed similar experiences after taking the hallucinogenic compound. In a report published on July 1st in the Journal of Pharmacology, more than 60 percent of those intrepid volunteers reported substantial increases in life ...

Well, if the goal is to have lasting success, then not having lasting success is a failure.

^ Just described my tenure here

I wonder what research they're planning exactly - it sounds mostly observational, but I think it could be very interesting to try and figure out which parts of the brain are affected and when. That said, the fact the experience has a strong subjective impact doesn't necessarily imply it's going to be all that suitable a situation for better understanding the mind (lots of cognitive stuff might ...

Quote: 36 volunteers, most of whom detailed similar experiences after taking the hallucinogenic compound. In a report published on July 1st in the Journal of Pharmacology, more than 60 percent of those intrepid volunteers reported substantial increases in life satisfaction a year after the experiment. ... (Eleven volunteers experienced side effects such as fear or...