Spirituality

Quebec religion wants Health Canada’s blessing to use magic mushrooms in ceremonies

Gratitude Sanctuary, known as Sanctuaire de la Gratitude in French… in Ottawa says the group believes people receive “their own teachings when entering the sacred space opened by the consumption of psilocybin mushrooms.” …first asked Health Canada about an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act in January 2022… Health Canada said it was…

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Endorsement of metaphysical idealism mediates a link between past use of psychedelics and wellbeing

It has been proposed that psychedelics promote wellbeing through spiritual-type transformations, involving changes in metaphysical beliefs… the results indicate that Idealism specifically, not non-physicalist beliefs generally, mediate a link between the use of psychedelics and wellbeing… metaphysical beliefs are typically abstract and non-falsifiable… In terms of predictive coding neuroscience, such as the free energy principle,…

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Recovered alcoholics tripping on ayahuasca say they’re being ostracized at AA meetings

Those who take psychedelics say they maintain their sobriety because the plant-based psychedelic is non-addictive and is being used medicinally or for spiritual enlightenment — not to numb out. “Members are being punished and expelled from their recovery groups and fellowships due to ignorance, judgment and misinformation in direct violation of our traditions,” Vanessa Crites,…

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My husband and I have been taking psychedelics together for 50 years

…psychedelics have been an essential companion in our relationship… it’s the secret to our long-lasting marriage. Through much practice and commitment, we have developed an open, honest communication style, and we can have hard conversations without being high. But the advantage of psychedelics… is that they help us to be vulnerable by quickly dropping our defenses,…

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[Psilocybe mushroom church… 106,000 members]

In five years… Church of Ambrosia has amassed 106,000 members across its two locations in Oakland and San Francisco. Ambrosia members pay $10 to join and $5 to enter the church… granting them access to church sacraments… magic mushrooms… It is thought there are now anywhere between 200 and 2,000 psychedelic churches in the US…

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Psilocybin… saved my marriage…

…if you’re a middle-aged-ish parent who finds themselves, consciously or subconsciously, deconstructing all the things society has taught us to value, while at the same time grappling with growing children who no longer look to us for all the answers and whom we can no longer protect from the social toxins that are seeping into…

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Psilocybin induces hyperconnectivity in the brain, which produces feelings of “oceanic boundlessness”

A new study shows that the use of psilocybin, a compound found in the widely known “magic mushrooms,” initiates a pattern of hyperconnectivity in the brain linked to the ego-modifying effects and feelings of oceanic boundlessness. The findings, appearing in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging… In one of the first brain imaging studies in…

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