{"id":11511,"date":"2021-07-08T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11511"},"modified":"2021-07-20T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T22:49:59","slug":"mushroom-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/08\/mushroom-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushroom Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/102\/hidden-truths\/psychedelics-open-a-new-window-on-the-mechanisms-of-perception\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Nautilus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hallucinatory drugs may allow our brains to let go of prior beliefs.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY ANIL ANANTHASWAMY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nautil.us\/18565_58d07ec4a553036d571ae5d22ca4f5ac.png\" alt=\"Anathaswamy_BREAKER-1\"\/><figcaption><em>John Smithson \/ Public Domain<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>verything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move. It would glisten and gleam and sparkle and be absolutely captivating,\u201d says neuroscientist Anil Seth. \u201cSomebody looking at me would see me staring at a stone for hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or what seemed like hours to Seth. A researcher at the United Kingdom\u2019s University of Sussex, he studies how the brain helps us perceive the world within and without, and is intrigued by what psychedelics such as LSD can tell us about how the brain creates these perceptions. So, a few years ago, he decided to try some, in controlled doses and with trusted people by his side. He had a notebook to keep track of his experiences. \u201cI didn\u2019t write very much in the notebook,\u201d he says, laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, while on LSD, he reveled in a sense of well-being and marveled at the \u201cfluidity of time and space.\u201d He found himself staring at clouds and seeing them change into faces of people he was thinking of. If his attention drifted, the clouds morphed into animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/102\/hidden-truths\/psychedelics-open-a-new-window-on-the-mechanisms-of-perception\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Nautilus<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Nautilus Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception Hallucinatory drugs may allow our brains to let go of prior beliefs. BY ANIL ANANTHASWAMY verything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move. It would glisten and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}