By Iris Kulbatski — 2020
Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are being tested to treat mental illness. They're also expanding our understanding about human consciousness.
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By the mid-1950s, LSD research was being published in medical and academic journals all over the world. It showed potential benefits in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other mental illnesses. This film explores those potential benefits, and the researchers who explored them.
Psychedelics have been a part—often a central and sacred part—of most societies throughout history, and for half a century psychedelics have rumbled through the Western world, seeding a subculture, titillating the media, fascinating youth, terrifying parents, enraging politicians, and intriguing...
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Featuring essays and interviews with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass and others, this one-of-a-kind anthology published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), includes topics such as the healing use of marijuana and psychedelics for PTSD, anxiety, depression,...
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This book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out of the interaction between Ram Dass and the spiritual seekers in attendance at these talks.
Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening.