Psychedelic Healing?

This is a really interesting study, and hopefully one which will yield some useful and positive results. I'm open to the possibility that the controlled use of MDMA in a regulated environment could help people with disorders like chronic depression etc, if only for the therapeutic qualities it has.

when i get that feeling, i need psychedelic healing!

I wonder how I would react. I have anxiety and haven't done shrooms since college b/c of that.

this sounds all good and all, but im wondering how exactly that mind altering drugs like MDMA could be used to treat something like Schizophrenia. Many mental illnesses are related to an overproduction of Dopamine, a neurotransmitter in our brains. Interestingly enough many drugs stimulate the release of more dopamine. So, I am curious as to how these types of drugs could be used...
i experienced depression as a teenager and LSD definitely didn't cure me of that.

Mainstream culture tends to either demonize or devalue the transformative capacity of psychedelics. These substances hold incredible potential for creative insight, therapeutic integration, and spiritual revelation – but they can also magnify psychological issues, fears, and emotional/mental instability under the wrong circumstances, in some cases causing irreparable harm…

It's a curious topic and one that I think deserves attention.

We knew this all a long though....

Ken Kesey, Dr. Leary, where art thou?

I've had plenty of experience with LSD, shrooms and all the above. If you're a grounded person and have a good head on your shoulders a good psychedelic trip can be a wonderful thing. The problem is a lot of people start messing with these drugs before they are ready to.

If you don't already have an idea of who you are when you take the drugs and get lost its hard to find yourself back to who you thought you where. The thing is you have to have and "idea" of who you think you are first then getting lost in a trip can be a fun thing knowing you have a place "ego" to return to.

Unfortunately sometimes people don't realize this and get lost and never find there way back to this reality. Its all good I mean our culture says its a bad thing but in other cultures e.g. in India being on a trip is a good thing!

~ Mind Control

MDMA is great for marriage counseling too. You love everyone when you're rolling. :)

Sounds good to me. Anything to avoid big pharma... Plants are always more effective.

Drugs to end drug dependency? Seems a little redundant.

from article:

"In 1955 psychiatrist Louis Berlin investigated the effects of mescaline and LSD on the painting abilities of four nationally recognized artists. Although the study showed that the artists' technical abilities were hampered, a group of independent art critics judged the experimental paintings to have "greater aesthetic value" than the artists' usual work.

Two years later Los Angeles psychiatrist Oscar Janiger asked 60 prominent artists to paint a Native American doll before taking LSD and then again while under its influence. A panel of independent art critics and historians then evaluated the results. Members generally agreed that the craftsmanship of the second set of paintings suffered, but many of those pieces received higher marks for imagination. "

Psychedelics are a powerful tool for growth and healing. I know this from personal experience with XTC, LSD, Mushrooms and peyote. Your mind set and the setting is important. It is possible to have a bad trip and it is not something to be entered into on a lark. But there is no doubt that thoughtful experimentation can open one's mind and heighten one's consciousness.

The Archaic Revival is upon us!

Medications the government can tax. Drugs they can't. Thats all that really matters to them anyway.

I can see this working for some, psychedelics have helped me really get to know myself. Yes, I do these recreational, but I do them to ask myself questions. Hiking in the woods (off trail) with peyote, psilocybin changed my perception of the world, I was connected to the outdoors like never before. Hell yeah, its fun too see all those things that supposedly aren't real, but fuck WHAT IS REAL? Why do we keep fucking this planet up even with the facts of our own destruction staring us in the face? I don't do drugs to hide, or to be "cool" I do them because I like them, I like the emotions they produce. They create an appreciation for the simple things around me, the sun, the trees, rivers, the mountains, etc. You see the full picture and you feel loved.

OOO OOO OOO OOO

Thank god,

Take some time and research ones self.

Take some time and take in the truth.

Take some time to be what you are entirely.

Think! Control your reality. Change what you don't like.

the army is starting to use MDMA as a treatment for PTSD which is why the substance was initially created in the first place. it helps patients deal with intense issues while feeling safe and empowered. after working through past events they can emerge on the other side with a fresh view on the situation and without the same level of fear.
we need to apply the other uses for these substance with the ideas of "(mind)set and setting" in research in order to understand them better as a society.