Hacker News with Generative AI: Psychedelics

Michael Pollan: This Is Your Priest on Drugs (newyorker.com)
In October, 2015, Hunt Priest, then a minister at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island, in Washington State, was flipping through The Christian Century, a progressive Protestant magazine, when an advertisement caught his eye: “Seeking Clergy to Take Part in a Research Study of Psilocybin and Sacred Experience.”

Religion, Psychedelics, Research, Christianity

6 points by mitchbob 4 days ago | 1 comments

Psilocybin reduced depression symptoms as much as leading antidepressant (2021) (massivesci.com)

Mental Health, Psychedelics, Clinical Trials, Depression, Medicine

31 points by dp-hackernews 20 days ago | 7 comments

The ancient psychedelics myth: Tourists told stories 'they find interesting' (theguardian.com)
The narrative of ancient tribes around the world regularly using ayahuasca and magic mushrooms in healing practices is a popular one. Is it true?

Psychedelics, History, Culture, Travel

15 points by robaato 22 days ago | 1 comments

The overlooked psychedelic that may help treat traumatic brain injury (bigthink.com)
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.

Psychedelics, Brain Injury, PTSD, Medical Research

11 points by PaulHoule 43 days ago | 1 comments

Is God a Mushroom? (longnow.org)
New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality — and with it, our vision of the cosmos.

Psychedelics, Spirituality, Religion, Philosophy, Science

13 points by wslh 70 days ago | 6 comments

What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports (themicrodose.substack.com)
The existence of synesthesia blew Sean Noah’s mind the first time he learned about it in high school biology class.

Psychedelics, Data Analysis, Substack, Synesthesia

189 points by cainxinth 87 days ago | 263 comments

Ketamine-Fueled 'Psychedelic Slumber Parties' Get Tech Execs Back on Track (wired.com)
“Ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,” Elon Musk told an interviewer last year. The unelected man currently gutting US federal programs isn’t the only one who thinks so. Ketamine, approved decades ago as a surgical anesthetic and long used as a party drug, is the off-label mental-health treatment of the moment.

Mental Health, Technology, Drugs, Psychedelics

5 points by impish9208 94 days ago | 1 comments

Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction (benpence.com)

Graphics, Art, Tutorials, Psychedelics

306 points by tasshin 120 days ago | 69 comments

Mental Health, Psychedelics and Life (docs.google.com)
After 18 months of intolerable torture, and after many months of consideration I have decided to end my life.

Mental Health, Psychedelics, Suicide

13 points by FartyMcFarter 140 days ago | 1 comments

Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics (aspetjournals.org)
This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and entropic brain hypothesis.

Neuroscience, Psychedelics, Brain Science, Consciousness

12 points by ahiknsr 194 days ago | 0 comments

Human brain changes after first psilocybin use (biorxiv.org)
Psychedelics have robust effects on acute brain function and long-term behavior but whether they also cause enduring functional and anatomical brain changes is unknown.

Psychedelics, Neuroscience, Brain, Research

54 points by XzetaU8 220 days ago | 27 comments

Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Getting Much, Much Stronger (wired.com)
Cultivators are turning to genetic sequencing and cellular-manipulation techniques to breed highly potent mushrooms—leaving some unprepared psychonauts in distress.

Psychedelics, Science, Drugs, Genetics

7 points by bookofjoe 223 days ago | 12 comments

Psychedelics Reduce Anxiety Without Hallucinations (neurosciencenews.com)
New research has pinpointed the specific brain region and neuron type responsible for reducing anxiety using the psychedelic drug DOI, without triggering hallucinations.

Psychedelics, Anxiety, Neuroscience, Brain Research

6 points by bookofjoe 230 days ago | 1 comments

Software development for the DMT headspace (smoothbrains.net)
I would hazard a guess that some readers of this blog might already be familiar with the delightful Scott Alexander story, Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person – in which the unnamed protagonist asks a couple of DMT entities to factorise a large integer:

Software Development, Psychedelics, Storytelling

42 points by cube_flipper 239 days ago | 4 comments

Magic mushroom chocolates are having a moment. But do they contain mushrooms? (latimes.com)

Food, Psychedelics, Health, Consumer Products

14 points by PaulHoule 278 days ago | 4 comments

A scientist took a psychedelic drug – and watched his own brain 'fall apart' (npr.org)

Science, Neuroscience, Psychedelics, Drugs

10 points by helsinkiandrew 308 days ago | 1 comments

New study shows reactions in the brain in people who were given psilocybin (nytimes.com)

Science, Brain, Psilocybin, Psychedelics

7 points by anjel 310 days ago | 1 comments

Mexico may legalize magic mushrooms (latimes.com)