According to a new study from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, psychedelic mushrooms tend to make people more resistant to authority. They also found the psychedelic experience induced by these mushrooms also cause people to be more connected with nature.
“Our findings tentatively raise the possibility that given in this way, psilocybin may produce sustained changes in outlook and political perspective, here in the direction of increased nature relatedness and decreased authoritarianism,” researchers Taylor Lyons and Robin L. Carhart-Harris write in the study.
Experiments in the past have had similar results, but this research team wanted to figure out whether anti-authoritarian, nature-loving people were just drawn to psychedelic drugs, or if it was the substance that brought out these traits in people. To figure this out, the team monitored a group of depressed patients who were given psilocybin and asked a series of questions both before and after the psychedelic experience. The results showed that people who were given the psilocybin did, in fact, change their views in regards to nature and authority.
The study also found that the subjects who took the psilocybin noticed a reduction in their depression symptoms as well. The control group that was not given the psilocybin had no noticeable changes in their attitudes towards nature or authority, and they did not see a reduction in their depression symptoms.
“Before I enjoyed nature, now I feel part of it. Before I was looking at it as a thing, like TV or a painting… [But now I see] there’s no separation or distinction, you are it,” one participant said in the follow-up exam.
Lyons and Carhart-Harris did caution that there was a small number of subjects in their study, so more research would need to be done to back up these findings.
“This pilot study suggests that psilocybin with psychological support might produce lasting changes in attitudes and beliefs. Although it would be premature to infer causality from this small study, the possibility of drug-induced changes in belief systems seems sufficiently intriguing and timely to deserve further investigation,” the study concluded.
However, these conclusions match theories that psychedelic drug users have had for many years, and if true, this could explain why government entities are so afraid of psychedelic drugs.
Terrence McKenna, one of the frontrunners of the modern psychedelic age, understood the nature of this situation very well and toured around the world to speak with audiences about the wonders of psychedelic shamanism.
In one of his lectures, Terrence articulated this psychedelic inquisition quite well by saying:
“All cultures are involved in the culture game and psychedelics transcend the culture game, and whether you’re a citizen of Jerusalem, a Tokyo stockbroker or a tribal islander when you take psychedelic substances your cultural values will suddenly be much more relativistically revealed to you. And that is political dynamite. Psychedelics challenge the assumptions of any cultural or political system and that makes them dangerous to every culture or political system.
So if there’s anything a Marxist dictatorship, a high tech industrial democracy or a theocracy, they can all get together on one thing which is that psychedelic drugs are a knife poised at the heart of community values, well this is just simply nonsense and all the reasons brought forth are a red herring. Psychedelics are among the safest substances known for human ingestion. Considering the depth of their impact on human mental functioning the fact that you pick yourself up 6-8 hours later and go on about your business with an expanded point of view is quite remarkable.”
McKenna’s point is highlighted in recent American history by the counterculture explosion of the 1960s. Psychedelic research began in the late 1950s and became a regular part of the youth culture by the mid-1960s. The explosion of psychedelic use interestingly coincides with the explosion of cultural freedom and anti-establishment sentiments of that decade.
It is for this reason that the American government took quick action to make these substances illegal and to vilify them in the public arena. Laws were passed which imposed strict penalties on anyone involved in psychedelic use, manufacture or until very recently, even scientific study.
Study:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269881117748902
(sources for article are hyperlinked at the site above)
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LSD and DMT as well. But mushrooms are cheap and easier to come by than the others.
I'm a huge proponent of psychedelics. They are life changing.
Life changing!!! 100% truth..
I look at LSD and DMT like drugs.They are only one molecule while mushrooms are ,well "natural" and contain hundreds of compounds.When ever i engage in LSD ,2cb or MDMA the experience is somehow artificial.Maybe it's only in my head but mushrooms are much more a teacher than a thrill.When taking mushrooms you are really going on a journey,the mushroom gives you what it wants...You can't hold it on the fun side if it goes bad.
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The read I don't know this kind of mushroom exists
With nature, there's No longer a separation... "You are it"...
We are...
I am pretty sure the CIA already knew that and that is why they are illegal. Hallucinogens are a threat in that they cause people to question things. Wasn't that like the first scene in Pineapple Express?
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thanks for this article!
one thought that popped in my mind while reading was, especially related to mushrooms, that plant based psychedelics happen to bring about a more nature based psychology. . .
perhaps, as many people experience, the mushrooms (or psychedelics) are teaching their own lessons about "their" reality and we incorporate it in to our own experience of "reality" . . .
Great writing and energy into this post. Also, congratulations on your triumph over cancer. I'm wondering what role entheogens played in your path to health. I understand that tests done with patients in varying levels of health crisis who used psilocybin, found an increase in overall positive mental attitude, which I have to feel helps in facing any challenge in life. Anyway, good work, keep it up!
Nice! Thanks for sharing this
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Psilocybin mushrooms have been found to have minimal harmful effects and could potentially benefit those with depression. But they remain illegal, and there is a big risk if you eat the wrong type...
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Terrence McKenna and so many others helped pave the road we're able to walk now. Come the late 2020's I think the general consensus about psychedelics will have changed dramatically to the positive. From micro-dosing to mental health treatment, lots of promising applications. Thanks for sharing this with us @johnvibes!
Couldn't it be the other way around? People who tend to resist authority are more keen to experiment and try out psychodelic mushrooms?
The study was testing that.
It's funny because Tim Leary did a study back in the day where he administered psilocybin to people in prison, after tripping in that set and setting those who were dosed had a much lower recidivism rate than the others. What a cheap and easy way to reduce recidivism and improve society, too bad we don't actually offer that to people in prison. Consider how much big pharma would pay to stop someone from releasing a non patented drug that you can grow for practically nothing and can cure depression in one dose.
We will not allow a natural product that grows in the fields of our countryside, easy to produce and accessible to all! And leave all these poor pharmaceutical industry bosses, who fight day after day for our health, on the floor lol
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I had a pleasure to see Robin L. Carhart-Harris give his talk on psychedelic research in Edinburgh last year.
From what I remember he originally targeted some conservative audience for his research, but he received no replies. Some people even reported his survey to their local authorities as they thought it was something dodgy!
Therefore baseline for his study consisted of liberals. That in itself indicates the nature of the problem.
Eating fruit and taking psychedelics are where it's at. Even just some mild cannabis helps. Though I don't think by themselves they will get us back to our true humanity, they can definitely bootstrap the process. Imagine after generations of accepted use...
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where can i get some mushrooms i live in nj. thank you
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This is news to no one who's tripped on shrooms. :) I feel that most controlled substances have a similar effect, though perhaps not as powerful as psilocybin.
Somebody lights a joint.
Noob: "Drugs are bad for you and you could go to jail if the cops catch you."
-- a year later after noob has completed one semester of college --
Same somebody lights a joint.
Noob: "Okay, for the sake of experimentation and personal experience, I'll try it."
[inhales]
Same somebody: What about going to jail?
[exhales with coughing]
Noob: "F*ck the police."
I believe this study to be true because when the authorities gave the subjects commands everyone just checked out. However, after a few hours they fell back in line. So who knows.
I was thinking about and maybe drugs are the medicines of the future.
Good post!!
Surprise!!!! Do you think other wild medicinal mushrooms have similar but smaller effects?
Shrooms are my favorite. Everyone should try them at least once. I enjoy micro dosing now that im older.
I myself went down and started my psychedelic journey in the jungle of Peru in the summer of 2014. I can wholeheartedly agree with the results of this study :)
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Pyschedelics are making this world a better place... there's no doubt about it! Very valuable and important share... thank you!! <3
Love this!! I recently began microdosing LSD for depression, anger, and anxiety. I'm nearly through my first tab, microdosing every fourth day. I'll be trying with psilocybin next, so I love reading about mushrooms and others' perspectives on them. I've eaten them in the past, but without the proper (I feel) respect and purpose-- more for 'recreational' reasons. I'm looking forward to using them in a more controlled manner and for a specific reason. Anyway thanks for the article, and the McKenna quote <3
I've wanted to try microdosing for productivity. Unfortunately, I'm old now and it's not as easy to source, or so I thought. You can order that kind of thing online legally for Litecoin!
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Shrooms is the correct piece in someones puzzle that is in the need..
From research I read many years ago, psychedelics tend to block neurotransmitter inhibitors thereby flooding the brain with sensory signals it normally could tune out.
Example: right now, until I mention it, you are tuning out signals from various parts of your body like your feet and your tongue. It's hard to focus on several things at once because you control inhibitors in your brain to tune out things that you aren't focused on. Since psychedelics block your inhibitors, more signals are flooding into your conscientiousness at the same time resulting in the strange effects.
While a very small amount of that can be stimulating. A large amount can cause hallucinations, extreme distortions of reality and inability to distinguish between imagination and reality, resulting in the inability to deal with emergencies.
Different psychedelic drugs, i.e. mushrooms, peyote, belladonna, LSD, etc, effect different inhibitors, thereby causing different effects.
Be very careful picking wild mushrooms, some are deadly poison.
If small doses of one of the various psychedelics can help people to have more compassion and commit less crimes, that would be wonderful.
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Is it the same as magic mushroom??..
Psilocybin is the active psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms.
Ok thanks
We ate em for school lunch in Berkeley...whole own resistant!
You can legally order hallucinogens with Litecoin from Canada for "research purposes".
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Interesting. I've just written a series exploring the psychological effects of internet use through LSD microdosing. Here's one part. Check out my profile for the whole series
https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@stillgideon/no-internet-month-diary-2017-part-7-the-uncertainty-principle
Amazing post dear @johnvibes! I am very interested in the effects of psychedelics to human consciousness and behaviour.
I think it's a shame they are illegal. So many people worldwide could profit from the effects, even if it was only in psychological treatments or somthing similar.
But I guess your title makes it obvious why they are forbidden ;)
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Terence McKenna has done so much for the psychedelic community . Good to see these kinds of posts on steemit.