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Long Trip: Magic Mushrooms’ Transcendent Effect Lingers

People who took magic mushrooms were still feeling the love more than a year later, and one might say they were on cloud nine about it, scientists report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

“Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives,” comparing it with the birth of a child or the death of a parent, says neuroscientist Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who led the research. “It’s one thing to have a dramatic experience you say is impressive. It’s another thing to say you consider it as meaningful 14 months later. There’s something about the saliency of these experiences that’s stunning.”

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 am and is filed under And Now for Something Completely Different, General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Long Trip: Magic Mushrooms’ Transcendent Effect Lingers”

  1. NQ04 Says:
    July 6th, 2008 at 7:44 am

    Hi,

    I just wanted to let people know that there is a new psilocybin study underway at Johns Hopkins University that is recruiting volunteers with a current or past diagnosis of cancer.

    For more information visit:

    http://www.bpru.org/cancer/insight/

    Thanks

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