LSD gaining popularity in psychotherapy.

BidenPresident said:
And now the book has become a four-part Netflix series of the same name, which debuted Tuesday. Pollan is an executive producer (along with the Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney) and the primary on-camera presence.

A thoughtful and wide-ranging look at psychedelic therapy, the series is grounded in accounts of their centuries-long sacramental use and of their uneasy history in modern society, especially in the United States. In particular, it focuses on four substances — LSD, mescaline, MDMA (known as Ecstasy or Molly) and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) — and the ways in which they are being used to treat patients with maladies including post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/...-change-your-mind-netflix-michael-pollan.html
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I saw that was out. Have you watched it and if so, is it good?
 
Damocles said:
Natural psychedelics maybe, not chemical psychedelics... that is my guess.
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The dose is what's important:
small dose is visual
medium dose is sexual
large dose is spiritual

You have to be laid out on your back and humbled before the gods will talk to you.
 
I am a huge fan, both from personal experience and what I have seen of the science. I was reading recently that it and drugs like it are enormously helpful with combat ptsd for instance, in the 70's it was very clear that it is helpful with alcoholism.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I went to college in the heart of the 1960s and didn't do any recreational drugs other than a little weed--and we weren't drug tested in boxing then.
No H. No snow. No contrived lab shit.
What did I miss?

JPP junkies, and there are obviously many of you going by the posts, what were your LSD trips like?
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I only did three, but they rocked my world, they changed my life for the better....my entire life after taking the trips.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I only did three, but they rocked my world, they changed my life for the better....my entire life after taking the trips.
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Wait a minute, three acid trips changed your life for ever? Somehow I think you are getting your info off of a TV documentary on the 1960's
 
My main motivation was Alan Watts book The joyous cosmology, having already been blown away by Alans wisdom I was after taking a road that he thought highly of. Of course his taking drugs and drinking sometimes a lot was considered cheating and inauthentic in Zen and Tao circles, a lot of people at the top of the hierarchy of both dismissed anything he had to say after they found out what he was doing, but I never felt that way. It was much the same with Ram Dass.
 
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