How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Business gets ready to trip: How psychedelic drugs may revolutionize mental health care
Jeffrey M O'Brienfortune.com
For me, “spiritual” is a good name for some of the powerful mental phenomena that arise when the voice of the ego is muted or silenced. If nothing else, these journeys have shown me how that psychic construct—at once so familiar and on reflection so strange—stands between us and some striking new dimensions of experience, whether of the world outsi... See more
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
The use of these drugs is not helpful if the insights gained from them are not integrated into the person’s normal state of consciousness.
Ceanne DeRohan • Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
This master of chemistry . . . emerged from his experience with LSD-25 convinced the molecule offered civilization not only a potential therapeutic but also a spiritual balm – by opening a crack ‘in the edifice of materialistic rationality’.