1.0 link 39881 <![CDATA[Mushrooms and mysticism]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/mushrooms-and-mysticism_b_39881.html There's now good scientific support for the claim that psilocybin, the active agent in "magic" mushrooms, has a better-than-even chance of generating a full-blown mystical experience in properly selected and prepared subjects.

Now what?

Last summer, there appeared in the profoundly respectable journal Psychopharmacology a most unusual paper, written by a team at Johns Hopkins Medical School led by the profoundly respectable Roland Griffiths, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, who spends most of his time studying the effects of caffeine....

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