Psychedelics may improve mental health by getting inside nerve cells

Entheogens, New Science

By McKenzie Prillaman Psychedelics go beneath the cell surface to unleash their potential therapeutic effects. These drugs are showing promise in clinical trials as treatments for mental health disorders (SN: 12/3/21). Now, scientists might know why. These substances can get inside nerve cells in the cortex — the brain region important for consciousness — and tell the neurons to grow, […]

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‘I’m a lighter me’: Can Mike Tyson and psychedelics help boxers with brain trauma?

Entheogens

The peyote cactus is central to many of the rituals of the indigenous Huichol tribe of Mexico. The bright colors and dreamy symbols of their yarn paintings are said to be inspired by the hallucinations experienced by ingesting the mescaline-rich plant in shamanic rituals. “They do these beautiful creations with beads, paint and sculpture. [By […]

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Psychedelic Therapy and the Democratization of Psychoactive Experience ∞ Sergey Baranov

Entheogens, Recommended, Videos

art by Luminokaya By Sergey Baranov Contributing writer for Wake Up World This title came to me during the last Huachuma (San Pedro) ceremony while I was lying on the ground, observing a tango between eucalyptus trees and the wind. The moment of clarity seemed to stretch in time and afforded me a deeper look into […]

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The psychologists signing up for psychedelic therapy training: ‘Amazing things can happen’

Entheogens

The global renaissance of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of mental health gains further legitimacy in Australia as psychologists sign up for clinical trialsJenny ValentishSat 29 May 2021 21.00 BST Last modified on Sat 29 May 2021 21.02 BST When growing up in Yea, in rural Victoria, Campbell Townsend took a dim view of drugs. […]

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The Hippies Were Right: It’s All about Vibrations, Man!


Spiritual Perspectives

A new theory of consciousness by Tam Hunt Why are some things conscious and others apparently not? Is a rat conscious? A bat? A cockroach? A bacterium? An electron? These questions are all aspects of the ancient “mind-body problem,” which has resisted a generally satisfying conclusion for thousands of years.            The mind-body problem enjoyed a […]

19/06/2019

Form is the shape of consciousness


Spiritual Perspectives

“Just because we have been back-stage at the continuum and seen how the sets are put together does not mean that manifest reality is an illusion! Form is the shape of consciousness; matter matters! Everything is real, nothing is an illusion, not even ‘nothingness’ itself, which is simply ‘everything’ at a different stage. To be […]

19/06/2019

Who Is This Higher Self?


Spiritual Perspectives

by Dingane There is an aspect of ourselves that is invisible, yet very real. This dimension of ourselves that is such an integral part of each and every one of us has been called many names. The higher self, the sacred self, the inner self – all falling short of sufficiently describing what this dimension […]

11/04/2019

Poof ∞ Aug Tellez


Spiritual Perspectives

It’s like we’ve been lead on a wild poof chase through dreaming that we are primarily physical beings. We are feeling, spiritual entities and the goal is not to attain mass or material wealth but to go inside and see the contrast that this creates with your soul. How you don’t like some things, and […]

30/01/2019

Banishing the Lies ∞ Lisa Renee


Spiritual Perspectives

Dear Ascending Family, In the age of social media and rampant propaganda, most of the public has been unable to separate honest and truthful representations from manufactured deceptions and lies.  For deception to work both sides have to participate, both deceiver and deceived have to play their roles. How do we wise up to see […]

19/12/2018

The First Supper: Entheogens and the Origin of Religion


Ancient Science, Books, Entheogens, Recommended

  The following is excerpted from the new book Mushrooms, Myths & Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe by Carl Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, José Alfredo González Celdrán published by City Lights. Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided madness is given us by way of divine gift. –Socrates, Phaedrus Various traditions recall the events of a “First Supper.” […]

11/12/2018

Taking Back the All-Seeing Eye ~~ Wes Annac


Transhumanism, Zeitgeist

Written by Wes Annac, the Aquarius Paradigm For centuries, the planetary elite have used the all-seeing eye as a way to subconsciously plant their warped spiritual beliefs into the rest of the world. They’ve hidden their reign over humanity out in the open with endless symbolism, and the all-seeing eye, which represents and acts as […]

04/12/2018

Dr. Stanislav Grof – The Cosmic Game


Books, Entheogens, New Science, Recommended, Videos

The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness by Stanislav Grof Reviewed by Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. and Christopher Ryan Stanislav Grof is renowned as a pioneer in the world of psychedelic psychotherapy and research. During more than four decades of exploration in the field of consciousness studies, Grof has accumulated data on some […]

30/11/2018