{"id":2471,"date":"2020-05-07T02:53:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T00:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceofthetime.net\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2021-08-13T13:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:18:42","slug":"the-overstaying-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceofthetime.com\/dlc\/2020\/05\/07\/the-overstaying-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALING THE MIND WITH PSYCHEDELICS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The overstaying stigma<\/h4>\n

Speaking of psychedelics, LSD, or \u201cmagic mushroom\u201d, one usually immediately associates them with the 1960s American youth culture\u200a\u2014\u200apolitical activism, pacifism, hippie culture, the Beat generation, sexual revolution, anarchy, protests against the Vietnam war and racial segregation \u2026<\/p>\n

The most prominent incident can be attributed to Timothy Leary, who is known to have made popular the phrase \u201cTune in, turn on, drop out\u201d in his speech at a gathering of 30,000 hippies in San Francisco in 1967. Leary was then an academic running the Psilocybin Project at Harvard<\/a> where he experimented with the substance and allegedly used it beyond research purposes, actively promoted its use for recreation and went as far as to administer psilocybin to an undergraduate student off-campus. This led to his eviction from the academy and the last-straw political backlash in which psychedelics were made illegal in the US even in medical use.<\/p>\n

Until today, psychedelics still receive unfavorable coverage and highly restrictive regulations, resulting in perceptions of risk. Around the world, only around a dozen countries have decriminalized it.<\/p>\n

Popular psychedelics introduced in <\/em>Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants and Substances<\/em><\/a> by Cody Johnson,\u00a02018<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Truth be\u00a0told<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The name \u201cpsychedelic\u201d is derived from the Ancient Greek words psych\u0113 (\u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae, \u201csoul\u201d, \u201cmind\u201d) and d\u0113loun (\u03b4\u03b7\u03bb\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bd, \u201cto make visible, to reveal\u201d). It literally means revealing the soul or opening the mind.<\/p>\n

As a naturally occurring substance found in mushrooms in many parts of the world, psychedelics experimentation dates back to ancient Greece where philosophers like Homer, Aristotle, Plato were mixing their wine with psychoactive compounds<\/a>. DMT, a particularly potent psychedelic, is even produced inside human and mammal brains<\/a>. From ancient times, psychedelics have been used by the indigenous cultures, such as the ibogaine in Africa<\/a> or special mushrooms in Mazatec Mexico<\/a>, to explore the inner landscapes of the human mind and spiritual discovery.<\/p>\n

What exactly do psychedelics do to the brain? Three key takeaways here:<\/p>\n