Magic mushrooms may help treat depression
(CBS) Feeling blue? Two new studies suggest taking a trip might help.
Tripping on "magic mushrooms" appears to change the brain in ways similar to antidepressants, the study found.
"We're not saying go out there and eat magic mushrooms," Professor David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacology researcher at Imperial College London and senior author of both studies, told Reuters. "But...this drug has such a fundamental impact on the brain that it's got to be meaningful - it's got to be telling us something about how the brain works."
The first of these studies, published in the Jan. 23 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, took 30 healthy volunteers and infused the shrooms' active ingredient - called psilocybin - into their bloodstreams while they were lying in an MRI machine. The researchers looked at the volunteers' brain scans, which showed decreased levels of activity in "hub" regions of the brain that connect areas responsible for consciousness, self-identity, and organizing sensory information that constantly floods the brain.
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... I didn't have much success with that one.
universe and your place in it....
i believe there are probably many different paths to experience that state of mind - meditation, life experience, therapy, drugs, etc, etc.......
OR a high enough dosage of psilocybin is a very fast, direct, and enjoyable path as well 
