Shrooms = Magic

[sicbeing]

Mystic mushrooms spawn magic event

NEW YORK (AP) -- People who took an illegal drug made from mushrooms reported profound mystical experiences that led to behavior changes lasting for weeks -- all part of an experiment that recalls the psychedelic '60s.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/10/psychedelic.research.ap/index.html

 

[Gen.]

Where can I get some.

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

Wow, that brought me back.

So basically it was a government funded experiment to prove that people get high off mushrooms?! God bless America!

 

[Touring Mars]

Many of the 36 volunteers rated their reaction to a single dose of the drug, called psilocybin, as one of the most meaningful or spiritually significant experiences of their lives.

Psilocybin has been used for centuries in religious practices, and its ability to produce a mystical experience is no surprise. But the new work demonstrates it more clearly than before, Griffiths said.

I think that should tell you everything you need to know about 'mystical experiences' right there...

That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say "they can't possibly put it into words," Griffiths said.

Funny how the human brain is more than capable of producing these feelings/sensations with nothing more complicated than taking some psilocybin. How you interpret these strange* visions (*strange as in "outwith the context of your normal experience") is very much a function of how predisposed you are to putting things into a certain (e.g religious) context. I have never done hallucinogens myself of course, but my friend Ian Grostrum has done once or twice, and despite having had a few experiences that could have been interpreted as 'mystical', his non-religious background ensured that he took these at face value, without measuring them against a pre-determined religious context...

 

[LeadSlead#2]

whoooaaa, dude! you just got so philisophical on us, maaaaaannn.
But it is true.

 

[ledhed]

I think that should tell you everything you need to know about 'mystical experiences' right there...



Funny how the human brain is more than capable of producing these feelings/sensations with nothing more complicated than taking some psilocybin. How you interpret these strange* visions (*strange as in "outwith the context of your normal experience") is very much a function of how predisposed you are to putting things into a certain (e.g religious) context. I have never done hallucinogens myself of course, but my friend Ian Grostrum has done once or twice, and despite having had a few experiences that could have been interpreted as 'mystical', his non-religious background ensured that he took these at face value, without measuring them against a pre-determined religious context...

There is a dude..lightning ..or tornado..or something.... out there ,that must have did this testing under both his personalitys at the same time .

 

[TsLeng]

Magic mushrooms!!!

You could get this by cultivating them yourself or in Holland(in dried form) i think.

 

[exigeracer]

That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say "they can't possibly put it into words," Griffiths said.

Many participants in the study also showed signs of uncontrolable and unprovoked laughter for hours on end.