Psilocybin Mushrooms: An Exploration of Their Uses and Benefits in New Medical Research
/Unraveling the Mysteries of Psilocybin Mushrooms: An Exploration of Their Uses and Benefits AOC Muse
The World of Psilocybin 50 Years Later
The world of psychedelics is commanding major headlines today, and psilocybin is center stage.
After decades of legally-induced dormancy, researchers who have been committed to psychedelics for decades are suddenly no longer shunned. For young scientists, a new lens through which to study human suffering and our existential dilemmas is an exciting frontier of groundbreaking research.
Psilocybin offers medical researchers, clinical patients in countless new research studies and armchair researchers like AOC thought-provoking opportunities for learning about the world of psychedelics and their important place in the evolution of human civilizations.
Once again scientists are exploring human consciousness on a universal scale. Empathetic researchers are developing new therapies and treatments for a vast portfolio of physical and psychological human sufferings that include imminent death, often caused by a deadly illness and brain-numbing pain.
Mind-Altering Drugs Wage Battle Against Extreme Human Suffering
Psilocybin in particular has recently gained recognition for its potential to help people with mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, and addiction. In addition, it has also been studied for its potential to improve creativity, enhance spiritual experiences, and even extend life expectancy.
AOC has watched in their entirety all of the videos shared in this article.
We will now focus exclusively on the growing exploration and clinical research into the health benefits of psilocybin, all of which are discussed in the multiple videos. At the end, we also share important overview articles worth bookmarking for future reference.
Warning!!!
While this post contains a health disclaimer at the end, it’s critical to reinforce the important message that psilocybin in a medical-grade treatment dosage should not be taken alone.
Anne is very familiar with psilocybin, as part of her own consciousness-expanding journey. Her experiences could not have been more positive and life-enhancing. That is not always the case.
For most people and especially people suffering from PTSD, a fatal disease and other extreme life challenges, the trusting relationship formed with medical experts and practitioners who are with you continuously during your extended-hours experience[s] is key to the success of your treatment.
In no way does AOC recommend ‘traveling’ alone or with an untrained in drug therapy ‘friend’ into the profound depth of experiences you will have with psilocybin. They are different for every person because each of us has traveled our own unique path to this moment in our lives.
To the best of our knowledge, there is no formula for knowing who will travel into a state of pure wonderment and beyond-belief beauty and spiritual connection as Anne has done always, and who will experience pain and anguish, even reliving traumas long-buried.
Very few people say that they wish they hadn’t taken psilocybin. Based on watching 30+ hours of documentaries on this topic, only a small number of people wish they hadn’t pursued this research. The vast majority of people report breakthrough progress on issues as simple as stopping smoking to dealing with the numbing pain of four deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.
For every person who wants to explore further the expanded consciousness that comes with psychedelics drug therapy, there’s a much-improved individual who agrees that s{he] will never again be the same person, but once is enough.
Roland Griffiths, Ph.D, John Hopkins School of Medicine
In the next video, leading psychopharmacologist Roland Griffiths discloses the ways that psychedelic drugs can be used to create spiritually meaningful, personally transformative experiences for all patients, especially the terminally ill.
We have more videos from prominent researchers in this new field of psilocybins in the main article in /muse.
Legality of Psilocybin
In the United States, magic mushrooms are a Schedule I drug, meaning that it is an illegal substance that has a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. However, many researchers are pushing for it to be reclassified as a Schedule II drug with accepted medical use. There have been a number of campaigns to try and get shrooms decriminalized, including the Psilocybin Mushroom Initiative and the organizers of the Psychedelic Science Conference.
State legislatures are in the process of sorting out the legality of psilocybin in their states, how much is allowed — if any — and can online purchases be shipped to buyers in the state.
This is a very active issue in the states, and while the MAGA crowd will call it the end of human civilization, there are many educated Republicans who support both the research and increased availability of psilocybin.
Cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms is considered drug manufacture in most jurisdictions and is often severely penalized. Do not consider ordering these products online without knowing the legal status in your city and state.
Further reading:
Here are a few sources for further information on the positive use of psilocybin:
The Beckley Foundation: Psychedelic Research Changing Minds link
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) link
The Imperial College London Center for Psychedelic Research link
The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research link
Center for Psychedelic Research New York University link