Magic Mushrooms Make People Spiritual
Using the active ingredient in illegal hallucinogenic mushrooms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have induced a lingering sense of spirituality that they believe has the potential to help patients struggling with addiction or terminal cancer.
Researchers said that the 36 subjects in the tightly controlled experiment none of whom had ever taken the drug before already had deep religious convictions, which primed them for a mystical experience.
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2006-07-12 |