For decades, the idea has been dismissed as too strange to take seriously.
But experiments involving microtubules, anaesthetics and brain organoids are beginning to test whether quantum effects could play a role in consciousness.
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Joseph Giacino is a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and the director of rehabilitation neuropsychology at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
Here he talks about the malleability of consciousness.
Read morePsychedelics and Spiritual Changes
Psychedelic experiences are often described as having religious, spiritual, or other significance.
However, renewed interest in psychedelics is occurring in pluralistic societies where more people are becoming spiritual but not religious.
Mysticism
Psychedelics have brought mysticism into modern medicine.
What happens when transcendent experiences collide with a culture that lacks language for understanding them? Researchers are listening.
Read moreHow Psilocybin Alters Consciousness
Psychedelics can create a new “hidden order” in brain activity that could explain how these drugs alter our sense of self.
Read moreSeeking Spiritual Experiences
Mental Flexibility
Psychologists are now finding that mental flexibility, not pushing through at all costs, is the real key to perseverance.
Read morePsychedelics and Lyme Disease
Take the Trip Out of Psychedelics?
In an essay published in International Journal of Drug Policy, Dutch psychology researcher Julian Heller and philosopher Yogi Hendlin argue that such attempts to take the trip out of psychedelics are a mistake.
The duo explain that psychedelics’ therapeutic potential is not merely neurochemical, but “highly dependent on subjective experience and environmental context.”
Read moreLSD for Anxiety
The psychedelic drug LSD eased anxiety in a late-stage trial, paving the way for a probable approval in the US within the next two years.
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