By Elaine Woo — 2008
An obituary for writer, Marilyn Ferguson. Her bestseller “The Aquarian Conspiracy” had a galvanizing influence on participants in scores of alternative groups that coalesced as the New Age movement.
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It seems that psychedelics do more than simply alter perception. According to the latest research from my colleagues and me, they change the structures of neurons themselves.
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