Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers continue their exploration into psychedelics and how these drugs may produce a wide range of profound changes in perception, cognition and mood.
In a recent study, published on Nov. 1 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research explored belief changes related to psychedelic experiences.
They found that a single psychedelic experience increased a range of nonphysicalist beliefs as well as beliefs about consciousness, meaning and purpose.
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“Daniel Ellsberg is a self-proclaimed “psychedelics person,” who says he has had several hundred experiences with psychedelics.
He isn’t convinced, however, that psychedelics hold the key to unlocking world peace and freedom from the impending nuclear and climate-related doom that he explores in his most recent book, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.””
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In “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious,” neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the mystery of consciousness. Keep reading for this book review.
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Some advocates claim that widespread psychedelic use will change the world for the better. But it’s not so simple.
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What does God, quantum mechanics and consciousness have in common?
Theories that try to explain these big metaphysical mysteries fall short, making agnosticism the only sensible stance, this author writes.
What do you think?
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