#hallucinogens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hallucinogens, aggregated by home.social.
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Did they drug the psychiatric ''patients'' with hallucinogenic drugs so that they would be declared schizophrenic when they said they were having hallucinations.#Example #Research #DetectiveWork #Hallucinations #HallucinogenicDrugs #Hallucinogens #Drugs
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OPINION >>> MAUREEN DOWD: #TechBro Had to Go
#ElonMusk came to Washington with a #ChainSaw and left with a #BlackEye
Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly — and apparently on #Hallucinogens
As with President #DonaldTrump’s tariffs, #DOGE has created more volatility than value
A guy who went bankrupt six times doesn’t really care about spending
#Trump certainly didn’t want to see the headline, “Trump Cuts #SocialSecurity"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/elon-musk-doge-trump.html
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New season of #BlackMirror dropped recently and I just finished watching it.
Episode 4, PlayThings blew me away! I immediately watched it again.
Wow is it good - the best #scifi short I've seen in yeeears!
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💊 Hallucinogen use linked to 2.6-fold increase in risk of death for people needing emergency care
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-hallucinogen-linked-death-people-emergency.html
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I once took nature’s most powerful hallucinogens on-camera for a TV show.
With Salvia Divinorum, ‘I’ dissolved entirely. The very idea of a continuous ‘self’ became absurd. Time looped. Nothing meant ANYTHING.
This timeline of Trump Does & Also Doesn’t Put Tariffs On Things is a bit like that.
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Largest-Ever Study on Ayahuasca Reveals Its Potential to Boost Mental Health and Well-Being
https://thedebrief.org/largest-ever-study-on-ayahuasca-reveals-its-potential-to-boost-mental-health-and-well-being/
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😵💫 Study confirms Egyptians likely used hallucinogens in rituals
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Psilocybin Bests SSRI for Major Depression in First Long-Term Comparison
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/psilocybin-bests-ssri-major-depression-first-long-term-2024a1000h77
#ycombinator #major_depression #major_depressive_disorder #unipolar_depression #clinical_depression #MDD #depression #adverse_effects #side_effects #antidepressant #antidepressant_drug #selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor #SSRI_selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor #selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitors #patient_safety #Europe #European #hallucinogens #comparative_effectiveness -
Trip on psychedelics, save the planet: the offbeat solution to the climate crisis; 🤣
Proponents say using hallucinogens can spark ‘consciousness shifts’ to inspire climate-friendly behaviors
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/02/drugs-climate-crisis
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Soul Quest claims it is unable to pay $15 million in compensation to the grieving family of 22-year-old Brandon Begley.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x3b4/the-bankrupt-ayahuasca-church-where-negligence-led-to-death?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#SPIRITUALITY #Hallucinogens #psychedelics #SoulQuest #Florida #healing #wellness #Crime #ayahuasca #medicine #rituals #Church #Religion -
Today in Nominative Determinism Follies: the neurologist who took some psilocybin and then got into an MRI to watch how it made his brain "fall apart" (his words, not mine!) was named Dr. Nico Dosenbach.
Dosenbach? Seriously? If I wrote that in a book, people would say it was too corny.
Anyway, it's a fun, cool experiment, and gave scientists a lot of nifty information about how psilocybin works on the brain.
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Yeah, doesn't that look like he's having fun?
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Chemical tweaks to a #toad #hallucinogen turns it into a potential #drug
Targets a different #serotonin receptor from other popular #hallucinogens.
The Colorado River toad (Incilius alvarius), also known as the Sonoran Desert toad, secretes a #psychedelic compound that likes to bind to a different #serotoninreceptor subtype called #5HT1A. And that difference may be the key to developing an entirely distinct class of #antidepressants.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/variant-of-a-toad-based-psychedelic-can-act-as-an-antidepressant/ -
Another informative piece by Joshua J. Mark (one of my sources for "Women in the Ancient World"). Also, ever wonder where #Christianity got some of their ideas about the #afterlife? Pretty much, they took what they wanted (or what was popular), then banned the Rites.
The #EleusinianMysteries: The Rites of #Demeter
by Joshua J. Mark
published on 18 January 2012"The #RitesOfEleusis, or the Eleusinian Mysteries, were the secret rituals of the mystery school of #Eleusis and were observed regularly from c. 1600 BCE - 392 CE. Exactly what this mystic ritual was no one knows; but why the ancient Greeks participated in it can be understood by the testimonials of the initiated.
"The Eleusinian Mysteries, held each year at Eleusis, Greece, fourteen miles northwest of Athens, were so important to the Greeks that, until the arrival of the Romans, The Sacred Way (the road from Athens to Eleusis) was the only road, not a goat path, in all of central Greece. The mysteries celebrated the story of Demeter and #Persephone but, as the initiated were sworn to secrecy on pain of death as to the details of the ritual, we do not know what form these rituals took. We do know, though, that those who participated in the mysteries were forever changed for the better and that they no longer feared death.
"The rituals were based on a symbolic reading of the story of Demeter and Persephone and provided initiates with a vision of the afterlife so powerful that it changed the way they saw the world and their place in it. Participants were freed from a fear of death through the recognition that they were immortal souls temporarily in mortal bodies. In the same way that Persephone went down to the land of the dead and returned to that of the living each year, so would every human being die only to live again on another plane of existence or in another body."
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/32/the-eleusinian-mysteries-the-rites-of-demeter/
#ReligiousHistory #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Eschatology #ImmortalSoul #Hallucinogens
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More and more surveys point to decreasing membership in religious institutions and a corresponding rise of “nones,” but this doesn’t mean an absence of belief or lack of #spirituality.
But the ‘nones’ are affiliating with new institutions, including a number of churches that use #hallucinogens.
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Ancient Egyptian followers of a deity called Bes may have used hallucinogens - Enlarge / An Egyptian drinking vessel in the shape of Bes head containe... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1947818 #hallucinogens #psychotropics #ancientegypt #anthropology #archaeology #science
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People were taking drugs in Spain 3,000 years ago, study finds - Because, IMO, life has always been hard and humans routinely seek natural escape or insight through plant-based hallucinogens. It’s a perfectly normal thing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65211722 #hallucinogens #drugs
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Ancient Peruvians partied hard, spiked their beer with hallucinogens to win friends - Enlarge / A vessel from the Wari site of Conchopata features the tree a... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1825350 #gaming&culture #hallucinogens #archaeology #chemistry #science #history #beer #wari
