{"id":1114,"date":"2006-07-11T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2006-07-11T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T19:18:09","slug":"mystic-mushrooms-better-than-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Mystic mushrooms better than everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/HEALTH\/07\/10\/psychedelic.research.ap\/index.html\">CNN.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>Many of the 36 volunteers rated their reaction to a single dose of the drug, called psilocybin, as one of the most meaningful or spiritually significant experiences of their lives. Some compared it to the birth of a child or the death of a parent.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say \"they can't possibly put it into words,\" Griffiths said.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, 24 of the participants filled out a questionnaire. Two-thirds called their reaction to psilocybin one of the five top most meaningful experiences of their lives. On another measure, one-third called it the most spiritually significant experience of their lives, with another 40 percent ranking it in the top five.<\/p>\n<p>About 80 percent said that because of the psilocybin experience, they still had a sense of well-being or life satisfaction that was raised either \"moderately\" or \"very much.\"<\/ul>\n<p>Sounds great!<\/p>\n<ul>Such comments \"just seemed unbelievable,\" said Roland Griffiths of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, the study's lead author.<\/p>\n<p>But don't try this at home, he warned. \"Absolutely don't.\"<\/ul>\n<p>Wow man. Bummer. You're such a buzzkill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via CNN.com: Many of the 36 volunteers rated their reaction to a single dose of the drug, called psilocybin, as one of the most meaningful or spiritually significant experiences of their lives. Some compared it to the birth of a child or the death of a parent. ... That experience included such things as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}