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Have used them in the distant past but find meditation to achieve similar but better results. As with other stimulants including alcohol, there can be detrimental effects from using shrooms as well as good ones. I do not recommend doing this, just pointing out that there is a world beyond the straight and narrow.
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Study finds ‘magic mushrooms’ may improve personality long-term
A new study suggests that a single dose of psilocybin -- the active ingredient in "Magic Mushrooms" -- can result in improved personality traits over the long term.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that individuals who received the drug once in a clinical setting reported a greater sense of "openness" that often lasted 14 months or longer, according to study published this week in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
The study defined openness as a personality trait that "encompasses aesthetic appreciation and sensitivity, imagination and fantasy, and broad-minded tolerance of others' viewpoints and values." It is one of five main personality traits that are shared among all cultures worldwide.
Of the 51 participants, 30 had personality changes that left them feeling more open. Other personality traits (extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness) were not impacted. Only the participants who said they had a "complete mystical experience" while on the drug registered an increased sense of openness.
"The mystical experience has certain qualities," lead author Katherine MacLean said. "The primary one is that you feel a certain kind of connectedness and unity with everything and everyone."
Because personality traits are generally considered to remain stable throughout a persons lifetime, researchers are excited about therapeutic implications of the study.
"[T]his study shows that psilocybin actually changes one domain of personality that is strongly related to traits such as imagination, feeling, abstract ideas and aesthetics, and is considered a core construct underlying creativity in general," study author Roland R. Griffiths told USA Today. "And the changes we see appear to be long-term."
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I think "may" is the key word here. If it does nothing else, it makes you take a hard look at your thought processes. Anybody who has taken shrooms with somebody else who for no apparent reason goes on a bad trip can understand this.
Our personalities are the result of our memories, and teachings from the womb to the day you decide to take shrooms. I can see where shrooms could be the push that allows you to get past certain thoughts that would change your personality.
You mention meditation, and I think EFT, or self hypnosis would be other avenues for reprogramming the subconsious mind to adjust thoughts, and behaviors.
Magic Mushrooms would be better than the garbage drugs big pharma pushes to people with mind, or behavior problems.
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This is a reply to # 1,864,324But known poisons like oleander cure cancer? Fox glove gives you a boost? (If it doesn't kill you first, which it has done.)
I've got a book by an individual who along with several friends ate shrooms by the bucket full and never experienced anything besides a psychedelic trip. What the John Hopkins research study has shown is that ONE shot of psilocybin (as in a single shroom trip) in a clinical setting had a better than 50% chance of mood enhancement that lasts for at least fourteen months. Show me any other herb (or pharma poison) than even begins to provide that kind of benefit.
However, a daily commitment to meditation does the same thing and even much, much more but Americans would rather take a pill or herb to cure their ills - makes no difference if its allopathic or alternative.
You and everyone else on the Planet are an eternal spirit - and not your body. The psychedelics of the 60's introduced many Americans to that awareness - something that Easterners have known for thousands of years, and also introduced many thousands to the benefits of meditation which science has also found to be a significant healer on both a spiritual level as well as a body level.
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I've got a book by an individual who along with several friends ate shrooms by the bucket full and never experienced anything besides a psychedelic trip.
They did, but the psychedelic trip is why they ingested the mushrooms, so it wasn't evedent to them at the time that their whole thought process in most people changed for the better.
I grew MM's back in the day. Sent away for the spores which came in syringes to be injected into a medium within a large picnic cooler.
Not recommended unless you do research, or you could grow a bad batch & go on a bad trip, or worse. Anybody that tells you they ate bucket fulls is full of cow pies, or they were just eating marijuana. A couple of grams is enough to be in your own world being fascinated by by the simplest things you would have only taken for granted before. A small group would eat them and go to a rock concert, etc.
I believe meditation is good, but as they say there are multiple roads to the same place.
You are also right about many people thinking that pills and other meds are the answer to everything. The worst thing about them is they don't want to hear about anything else. They have been dumbed down by the advertising.
Drive by a fast food restaurant at lunch time, the cars are lined up to buy that crap.
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"I believe meditation is good, but as they say there are multiple roads to the same place."
My unwritten point (like the one on the top of my head?) is that Americans live in the fast lane and unless they could grab an hour of relaxation or meditation at a drive through in two minutes they don't allow themselves to have it. Also anything that you attached to your body to buzz you into a semi hypnotic state or play crashing waves on a beach or any other external stimulus/relaxation is more of the same "take a pill" mentality and invalidates one's ability to do it on your own and at the same time finding that eternal spirit within. Am not knocking them, they have their place but really turning within is very different.
"You are also right about many people thinking that pills and other meds are the answer to everything. The worst thing about them is they don't want to hear about anything else. They have been dumbed down by the advertising.
Drive by a fast food restaurant at lunch time, the cars are lined up to buy that crap."
We've been doing the pill and self medication for decades. 100 and more years ago Sears catalog had a stainless steel hypodermic syringe with extra needle and carrying case for $1.50. They also had the heroin to fill it with along with codeine and a plethora of patent medicines all with codeine, cocaine, opium or equivalent concoctions with it. Americans have wanted a quick fix for a long time and we are paying a price for it with ills - real and imaginary. The Easterners have said that illness is the Americans form of meditation and I believe it. As "bad" as it seems that we're all doped up now - we were really doped up then - PBS has run some great history on Americans and our drug habits which included lots of opiates and cocaine. Also during that era medical doctors didn't have to have a single day of college, just a year of "medical" school. In spite of our gripes about modern medicine (I bitch about it right along with everyone else yet have had good experiences too) it has improved - just look at the increase in our longevity - 47 years in 1900, though about 15th or so in the world rank today at 78 years.
Now I'll quit and run out for fries before bedtime. (Just joking.)
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This is a reply to # 1,863,567I also heard that this is posted in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. (see it here: Controlled magic mushroom doses could have psychotherapeutic uses) The study discovered that individuals who were given a controlled dose of psilocybin were more open about their feelings and self-reported better life satisfaction over one year later.
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