Opening the critical windows of the mind & brain development to help adults with PTSD, major depression, serious anxiety problems, alcoholism, opioid dependance or other destructive obsessive personality disorders like obsessive compulsive shopping or gambling or other kinds of addressable mental illness.
A Warning
Taking hallucinogenic substances like LSD or Psilocybin can produce a bad frightening intense trip that cannot be turned off until many many hours later, which can feel like days or weeks of time if it takes on a negative spin.
Be in a comfortable place with a sober sitter, something comfortable to rest on, soft pillows, soft blanket, soft light, something gentle. In the months & weeks leading up to your trip do what you can to prepare your mind or consciousness by forgiving people who have wronged you & forgiving yourself of things you have done wrong.
Focus on inner profound deep healing of your heart & soul & engaged in spiritually & mentally healthy practices that focus on love, peace, faith & hope. Focus on realizing that your not everyone, that they are not you, but that all people rely on one another for food, air, water, housing, clothing, electricity, to play sports or work together, everything about modern life relies on international social & economic cooperation.
You need to be a healthy mindset when going into a trip session with the expressed intention of producing profound inner healing of your mind during the trip so that it has the greatest positive effect. This has nothing to do with party drugs or recreational use of tripping out for hedonistic flights of fancy. I am talking about obtaining relief from deep depression & suicidal ideation episodes not helped by other medications, PTSD & traumatic memories from being tortured or abused physically or sexually in childhood (I was & know all about this)
The world we live in exists as the mind emergent & experiences reality in limited forms of thinking that treats natural resources in toxic exploitative ways, when many people already realize we should be engaging in sustainable agriculture, renewable energy + energy storage, electric vehicles & many other pollution reducing technologies emerging as people realize that coal & diesel are dead ends, and not a long term energy solution like uranium fission with uranium harvested from oceans able to fuel fission for 5000 years of fission reactor operation without any nuclear fuel reprocessing!
When a person takes a strong dose of MDMA, LSD, Psilocybin or similar powerful substance, but in a very safe setting, with a therapist, with a good set & setting to help patients of all kinds to recover from mental health crisis or negative looping thoughts or other forms of mental illness not well addressed with SSRI or similar commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs that have very limited effectiveness. Albert Hoffman the man who invented LSD was bright & high functioning until over 100 years of age, giving conferences about mind altering substance & micro-dosing right up till his death, vivid & bright in part because he had been macrodosing LSD for decades as a mood boosting anti-depressant.
Consider your agency or free will, the bias in the way you think & perceive that's more about you & less about the world around you. Most of what you see in the visible spectrum tells you almost nothing about what's happening in many other frequencies, microwave, radio, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, gamma, neutrons, heat, phonons, there's a lot going on that our sensory perception does not pick up. Most of what we call solid an illusion, made mostly of cold energy & empty space. Consider the space between the electron orbitals of atoms & the nucleus, huge amounts of empty space. Thus what we call material solids, liquids & gasses largely illusionary. Most scientific instruments that people use to study chemistry or physics have to use exotic means radically divergent from human sensory organ function, to perform chromatography or mass spectrometry or other multi-spectral imaging like NASA doing on the JWST or James Web Space Telescope, able to see 5 nano-janzes (mid infrared) light, like a candle on the moon viewed from Earth in terms of its heat phonon emissions.
The human body a very bright low energy IR emitter for example. Plug a thermal imaging dongle like Seek into your smartphone & image a person with it & they will glow in the colorization because that person your IR imaging warm, emitting lots of low energy IR light or infrared radiation that our eyes cannot see at all naturally. This itself can be a mystical experience, playing with IR imaging on your smartphone to see the heat reality around you, can be used to fix, repair or optimize all sorts of systems like building energy, electrical panels, computers servers, utilities, natural gas pipes, vehicle engines, munitions, space, agriculture, tracking ecosystems function & weather, many other domains of society can benefit from IR imaging.
Ultimately the substances are less important that the set & setting of the user when they are tripping or having the subjective effect experience of being in an altered state of consciousness. Remember that your brain makes its own drugs, so you can use intense meditation to achieve a mystical state without any illicit or hard to access drugs. Not to suggest that magic mushrooms are hard to come by or expensive, but they are illegal to buy or sell, to produce for commercial distribution or similar, not like alcohol the dangerous intoxicating ethanol in alcoholic beverages that cause people to die of alcohol poisoning, others to get DUI charges on their driving record & similar related expenses associated with a DUI.
Dark chocolate, coffee, tea, tobacco, black pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, anise, there are many psychoactive substances that people regularly consume. Consider eating 2 oz of 99% dark chocolate with a coffee first think in the morning & you will experience an altered state of consciousness. People asleep dreaming are experiencing an altered state of consciousness. Every persons waking experience of reality actually an internal mental projection that Anil Seth calls "We Hallucinate our Reality" with respect to the way the brain uses long term memories of how the world works & what things are in real time comparison to what the sensory organs are producing in terms of sensory data about the world in real time. Your brain is like the computer hardware while you mind is like the software running on the brain computer. What you think about in your mind changes the structure & function of your brain via protein synthesis or what is also known as neuronal plasticity; ie. neurons that "fire together, wire together" as the landmark paper on that subject illuminate as a easily memorizable catch phrase about how we become more like what we do regularly or people we spent more time with, because these factors influences our thinking in the mind which directly affects wiring in the brain as it adapts with memories from the past or priors to incoming sensory data from the eyes & ears, with people's consciousness actually around 6 seconds in the future ahead of their physical reality operating on the "Seat of their pants" in real time, thus the mind & brain are predictive in nature, using models of how things previously worked as observed to inform our perspectives about what we are seeing.
Humans have been using mind altering substances for thousands of years, plants & fungus for 9000+ years as depicted in cave carving drawings. It was not until the mid 20th century that scientist began to study the way that LSD impacts the brain, originally envisioned to help people with mental or emotional problems, but later banned as illegal with propaganda suggesting they could destabilize society as dangerous drugs & by the early 1970's research stopped as the War on Drugs went into full big budget operation worldwide.
Albert Hoffman LSD25 onto his finger on accident & into his eye, a light hit. April 19th or Bicycle Day, 3 days later, Hoffman & his assistant deliberately took LSD25 & had a delightful bicycle ride home from the lab, where the trip turned into a magical experience of the yard & land & home in greater experiential depth, like turning your sensory input control level that normally peaks at 100, to 900 so your more awake & more aware than every before. It's like serotonin in the brain but it hits & sticks to the 5HT2a receptors longer than serotonin because it resists being broken down.
LSD25 is dirty because it actually plugs into many other kinds of receptors in the brain, creating a whole cascade of different effects that make "Turning On, Tuning In & Dropping Out" very dangerous as a counter culture activity. LSD is a terrible recreational drug because it dilutes EGO, causing people to feel love & connectedness to nature & other people, causing people to question industrialization, materialism, government power & other societal control mechanism, scaring despots like Richard Nixon, into banning any human activity or research with LSD, putting us in a psychedelic dark age until recently, while now during the 4IR we are having a psychedelic renaissance as MDMA in stage 3 clinical trials, while weed is legal for 21+ sale in many states, while magic mushrooms are up from legalization next!
A whole range of class leading scientists from different domains of science are working on the MAPS or Multi-disciplinary Application of Psychedelic Studies / Drugs similar to serotonin seems to all have psychedelic or psychoactive properties. Psilocybin & ketamine have similar effects at treating depression. MDMA is psychedelic like, used in breakthrough state in the FDA to treat PTSD, because it increasing dopamine & serotonin signaling, while increasing oxytocin releasing & suppression of the amygdala or fear center of the brain. Psychedelics can be defined or characterized by dissolving of the EGO in a consciousness expanding manor that helps people feel connected to other people & nature. The phenomenology of psychoactive really where you see the hard potent or powerful effects on perception & self identity, while perception deeply altered enabling people tripping to see patterns in the world that they normally do not.
Self identification altered in a mind manifesting way that helps break down the individuals sense of self, such that people on psychoactive psychedelic experiences have a difficult recalling their name when asked. What are the effect of these targeted pharmaceutical compounds, potent small molecules like LSD that at very low doses, like 80 micrograms, has profound effects on the brain. LSD connects regions of the brain in random states, in many different states, connecting regions of the brain in unusual ways that often bypass the hard ridged EGO driving default mode network filtering, so that people tripping have a very direct experience of reality by pipelining sensory input into different brain regions, such that a person tripping can smell sound, or taste color or experience sensory blending experience that people find deeply profound because of how it helps them appreciate reality differently afterward.
It takes weeks for the mind & brain to integrate the profound psychedelic experience into functional changes in thinking, behaviors, decision making, persona, identity, EGO or ID, or in the dual nature model of reality, the special agent you & librarian DMN start having different discussions, creating an kind of internal openness more characteristic of early childhood than adulthood. Thus psychedelics can open up critical windows of development to help people learn new languages faster, to feel better, to forgive, let go or forget traumatic memories so they are liberated to move on feeling more encouraged, more loving, more kind, more accepting of other people. It can break down the ways that people hold association with language that tell people how they are or how they should act.
Think for yourself & choose your own path. Other people do not know enough about you to tell you what you need or what you should do. You have free will & agency to do whatever you want as long as you obey laws designed in large part to protect people from criminals or other people who are radically divergent from the average. Most people are good in this context, relatively good compared with widely held ethical & moral principle, though some are greed narcissistic whacko's for reasons we can only assume are due to underdevelopment of their soul, mind or failure to obtain full self actualization, limited minutes of scarcity, or social division, judgmental bigots & jerks & criminals who care more about themselves than anyone else & will hurt anyone, animals, nature or anything with pollution or worse if it lines their pockets with gold, like Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin, sick evil whackos who think its ok to harm, hurt & kill other people/ causing widespread harm, violence, war, & worse!
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