Psilocybin Mushroom
Wikipedia
Compendium of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts On Psychedelics
Diane Rehm Show: Using Psychedelic Drugs To Treat PTSD & Other Mental Disorders
Michael Pollan: "The Trip Treatment": Research Into Psychedelics, Shut Down For Decades, Is Now Yielding Exciting Results
Psilocybin Research: Possible Psychiatric And Psychological Applications (With Michael Pollan's Article, "The Trip Treatment")
Large Study Links Controlled LSD Use To Reduced Recidivism
Dr. Carl Sagan’s Essay In Praise Of Marijuana
Greetings,
Today, I had a follow-up meeting with radiological interventionist, Dr. Alan Alper Sag M.D., who (4 weeks ago today), performed kyphoplasty on my lumbar vertebrae numbers 1 and 2 to repair compression fractures at both sites.
Alan Alper Sag M.D., Interventional Radiologist, Duke University Medical Center's Brain and Spine Center: https://www.
A 35 year old physician's assistant "in-training," Kevin Gentile, preceded Dr. Sag's arrival in order to conduct a preliminary interview.
Kevin remained throughout my consultation with Dr. Sag. (As an aside, I will add that I have never seen any professional person's support team so uniformly gung-ho to sing the boss' praises. Kevin, who is from the New York City sprawl into New Jersey area, confided that he was initially tempted to see Dr. Sag's warm embrace, upbeat cheerfulness, and total commitment to his patients as 'disingenuous' but it didn't take long for him to realize he's 'the real deal.' When it comes to kyphoplasty, Dr. Sag -- supported by his loving team -- is quite likely the best interventional radiologist in the world.)
Five minutes after my half hour consultation with Dr. Sag ended, Kevin returned to deliver my "discharge papers" which summarized the day's examination and interview, an interview based largely on an MRI performed at Duke Regional Hospital last Friday, an interview supplemented by a sheet of questions I had composed beforehand.
Handing my discharge papers, Kevin asked "what I did", noting that I was unusually conversant in medical terminology.
A fascinating conversation ensued in which Kevin told me he was a second year Duke PA student, and that he recently completed his research project - an obligatory component of his second and final 12 month academic year.
As it happened, Kevin chose to explore the rapidly developing use of psilocybin in the treatment of major depression; end-of-life re-orientation from hopelessness to hopefulness; and other manifestations of psychological suffering/stuckness/
It needs to be emphasized that these "cures" are not by way of random recreational use (which can be very dangerous) but by virtue of a three-step clinical program that 1.) prepares the patient for the experience, 2.) then immerses the patient in the psilocybin experience... along with continual support, guidance and care by well-trained staff, and 3.) finally integrates the revelations of psilocybin experience into the patient's daily life during follow-up support that lasts at least a year.
Much of this groundbreaking work with psilocybin has been done at Johns Hopkins University ever since Roland Griffiths "re-opened" psychedelic research there in 1999, decades after Richard Nixon's "successfully" suppressed all such investigation.
An aside...
Just yesterday, I found myself reflecting on the virtual elimination of obligatory Civics instruction from the nation's public schools, resulting in dimwittedness from sea-to-shining-sea, with the end result of creating a nation of pithed citizens eager to elect Donald Trump to The Oval Office despite his relentless torrent of lies and the culminating normalization of unhinged conspiracy theories that are best summarized as Q-Anonsense.
The American Right-Wing's Ersatz Theology: Ancient Gnostic Heresy Is A Key To Understanding QAnon
(An Illuminating Interview From NPR's "On The Media")
During my recent trip to New York, I learned from a pizza delivery friend that many of his fellows don't know that Joe Biden is president, even though their using their pizza delivery earnings to pay their way through college. Don't believe it? I venture you didn't think Malignant Messiah could be elected.
Although my hypothesis (below) needs carefully controlled scientific testing, my tentative assumption is that the oligarchic-and-plutocratic structures that undergird much of American governance have long since decided -- as Nixon did -- that too many people were seeing through Big Money's self-aggrandizing scam, and, in order to terminate the threat of widespread consciousness raising, these ungodly rich people (whose only goal is to acquire more) decided to dumb down the nation's educational process --- in large part by the elimination of Civics instruction -- simultaneously implementing a profiteering "research re-orientation" increasingly controlled by Big Pharma specifically, and Big Money generally.
How Wealth Rules The World
Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property
Facebook Thread About Big Pharma Malfeasance, And The First Ever Woman Editor Of "The New England Journal Of Medicine," Maria Angell's Spot-On Criticism Of The Pharmaceutical Industry
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The first link below is a TED talk by one of Roland Griffiths' close collaborators at Johns Hopkins, Mary Cosimano.
Ms. Cosimano provides a clear overview to this revelatory research.
(I should mention that the third video below focuses on the psilocybin research of Charles Grob, a decisive figure in physician assistant Kevin Gentile's research project in the Duke PA program.)
Psilocybin, love and the meaning of life
Preview YouTube video Psilocybin at the End of Life - Charles GrobPreview YouTube video Dr Charles Grob - Psilocybin at End of LifePreview YouTube video Can Magic Mushrooms Unlock Depression? | Rosalind Watts | TEDxOxfordPreview YouTube video Psychedelics: effects on the human brain and physiology | Simeon Keremedchiev | TEDxVarna
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