10 Surprising Facts About Hallucinogens, Psychedelics and “Magic Mushrooms”
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. -Stanislav Grof The BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute, which is located at Promega Corporation in Madison, Wisconsin, recently hosted the 10th Annual International Bioethics Forum titled “Manifesting the Mind”. Several notable speakers gave presentations on a rather unexpected subject matter: the use of hallucinogens such as psilocybin (i.e., magic mushrooms) to better understand the nature of consciousness and to even treat neuropsychological disorders such as depression, anxiety and drug addiction. I was one of the lucky participants that attended this forum. Psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine), which is the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, has been in use for thousands of years by the indigenous peoples of the Americas; in fact, the Aztec called these mushrooms teonanacatl, or ”flesh of the gods”. Mescaline