Advanced Neuroscience
This neurotransmitter system, often implicated in so-called 'drugs of abuse,' is NOT significantly impacted by classic psychedelics.
What is dopamine?
This U.S. city was the first to decriminalize psilocybin in 2019.
What is Denver?
This phrase describes the Western adaptation of indigenous practices, often criticized for commodification and loss of original cultural context.
What is cultural appropriation?
This book by Aldous Huxley describes his mescaline experiences.
What is The Doors of Perception?
This scale measures the intensity of mystical experiences induced by psychedelics.
What is the Mystical Experiences Questionnaire?
This brain imaging method shows how psychedelics alter functional connectivity in the brain.
What is fMRI?
In 2020, this state became the first to legalize psilocybin therapy.
The Native American Church uses this legal exemption to incorporate a psychedelic substance in its spiritual practices.
What is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act?
This Hunter S. Thompson novel portrays a drug-fueled journey through Las Vegas?
What is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
Psychedelics often lead to this feeling of profound connection to the universe.
What is 'unity' or 'oneness?'
This phenomenon describes the breakdown of ordinary brain connectivity, leading to a state of free association.
What is ego dissolution?
In 2018, this FDA designation accelerated research into psilocybin therapy.
What is 'breakthrough' therapy?
This indigenous group of northern Mexico uses peyote in elaborate ceremonies that include pilgrimages and offerings.
Who are the Huichol?
This 2009 film by Gaspar Noé uses visual effects inspired by psychedelics.
What is Enter the Void?
A 2006 Johns Hopkins study replicated this experiment showing that psilocybin could induce mystical experiences in healthy volunteers.
What is the Good Friday Experiment?
This neurotransmitter system is primarily responsible for the effects of ketamine.
What is glutamate?
A 2021 paper describing a 'self-blinding' experiment explored this type of psychedelic use.
What is microdosing?
The Santo Daime religion integrates ayahuasca use into its ceremonies, combining it with elements of this religious tradition.
What is Christianity?
This counterculture novelist's works, such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was influenced by his participation in the CIA's MK-ULTRA experiments.
Who is Ken Kesey?
This is the term for experiences that are deeply meaningful and transformative but defy linguistic description.
What are 'ineffable' experiences?
The claustrum, impacted by psychedelics, is believed to play a role in this integrative brain function.
What is consciousness?
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 classified psychedelics as Schedule I substances under these criteria.
What is high risk for abuse and no accepted medical use?
This group of surfers and hippies in Southern California were the largest distributors of LSD in the late 1960s/early 70s
What is The Brotherhood of Eternal Love?
in 1999, This creative duo attended the Oscars ceremony wearing dresses while high on LSD.
Who are South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone?
This philosophical concept, often linked to mystical experiences, suggests that reality is interconnected and non-dualistic.
What is monism?