Since the usage of peyote and psilocybin in Shamanic ceremonies to a tab of acid placed on someone's tongue at a party; psychedelics have always been a controversy in the medicinal field. As we progress further into the 21st century, there's been a paradigm shift within the psychopharmacological community towards the use of psychedelics for therapy.
We shall explore the usage of psychedelics as facilitators of growth.
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Ancient psychedelic drink called Soma was mentioned in the Rig Veda
Use of ergot in brewing the potion called Kykeon in the Greek Elusinian Mysteries
Ergot also used to synthesise LSD
Interesting fact: Ergot is a fungus that grows on the seeds of rye/morning glory.
Psilocybin, the psychoactive substance within 'magic mushrooms' has a similar chemical structure to ergot.
Figure 2. The evolution of the brain from apes to humansFile:Stoned ape.jpgFig 2. Stoned apeTerrence McKenna's argument on consciousness and language being emergent properties through the consumption of psilocybin by Homo erectus
Entheogenic origins of consciousness common around many indigenous tribes
Fig 7. LSD molecular structureSimilar effects to psilocybin on 5HT2A receptors (Dolder, P. C., Schmid, Y., Müller, F., Borgwardt, S., & Liechti, M. E., 2016)
Carhart-Harris, R. L., Leech, R., Hellyer, P. J., Shanahan, M., Feilding, A., Tagliazucchi, E., Chialvo, D. R., & Nutt, D. (2014). The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 20–20. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00020
Lebedev, A. V., Lövdén, M., Rosenthal, G., Feilding, A., Nutt, D. J., & Carhart-Harris, R. L. (2015). Finding the self by losing the self: Neural correlates of ego-dissolution under psilocybin. Human Brain Mapping, 36(8), 3137–3153. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22833
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