Your Brain Can be More Powerful by Using Psychedelic Mushrooms: Researchers

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There is a large number of psilocybin mushrooms with more than 100 different species called with nicknames such as Liberty Caps, Magic Mushrooms and Shrooms. All kinds of mushrooms contain psychedelic compounds causing producing hallucinations, euphoria and some changed thinking processes. Since prehistoric times, these were being used for spiritual purposes. Mushrooms got popularity in 1960s in the United States. R. Gordon Wasson and Valentina were became the first famous Caucasians to participate in ethnic mushrooms ceremony in 1955. They also published their articles in 1957 regarding their experiences for “Life” magazine. A lecturer in the Harvard at clinical psychology Timothy Leary reached Mexico to get the experience regarding the effects of mushrooms.

He came back and started the Harvard Psilocybin Project with Richard Alpert; it supported the religious & psychological study of psilocybin mushrooms and some psychedelic drugs. Point to be noted that Harvard was supposedly unimpressed with this kind of research due to Leary & Alpert left the school in 1963. Offenses of LSD & psychedelic mushrooms motivated the U.S federal government to categorize the 2 substances along with heroin and marijuana according to the 1971 Schedule 1 controlled substances. The Schedule 1 substances are regarding to the non-medicinal purpose and their processing is illegal. The studies of psilocybin mushrooms were restarted in the start of 1990 and most recent studies are showing promising results. The Journal Neurology published in 2006 after taking interviews from more than 50 patients who had received self-dosed of LSD or psilocybin for their headache problems.