July 23rd, 2009 - What would it be like if all the beauty you’d ever experienced throughout your life came rushing through you all at once? What if for a brief moment you transformed yourself into some sort of cosmic tuning fork, just laying back and letting it all envelop you like a wave of energy? Ever look into the sky and be so overwhelmed by the intensity of it all that you had to look away for fear you may burst? If you don’t think I sound bonkers then perhaps you’ve had a pleasurable experience with psychedelic mushrooms and the chemical psilocybin.
This was to be my latest Sumatran adventure, a ‘trip’ down the cosmic highway. It was for me an absolutely magnificent experience. There is more to psilocybin than most people may think. It is much more than a hippie drug utilized by college students and frazzled flower children. You may be skeptical. You may think that I am Deadhead trying to rationalize my own irresponsible behavior but you might be surprised to learn that in 2006 John Hopkins University, one of the premiere medical institutions in the United States, commissioned a study on the beneficial effects of psilocybin which included 36 test subjects.
The results were overwhelmingly positive and a follow up survey published on the first of this month found that test subjects continued to benefit from their experience 14 months later. What’s more, if one were to do the research one will discover that none of the usual drawbacks associated with the drug use are prevalent with mushrooms. If you are skeptical I do not blame you. In fact I encourage all who read this to assume that I am full of poo-poo. Find out for yourself.
