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  Mia Quagliarello

  

  How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist

  BBC Future - Rachel Nuwer

  Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement. But when he took the drug MDMA in a scientific study, it would radically change his extremist beliefs – to the surprise of everyone involved. Rachel Nuwer investigates what happened. In February 2020, Harriet de Wit, a professor of …

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  Mia Quagliarello

  

  The Culture Desk

  Mar 28, 2023
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  Mia Quagliarello

  

  Psychedelics open a new window on the mechanisms of perception

  bigthink.com - Anil Ananthaswamy

  Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place. Sign up for the Smarter Faster …

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  Mia Quagliarello

  

  What Can Ancient Spiritual Poetry Teach Us about Living?

  harvard.edu

  This music, this way of hymning directly to God, was my first conscious experience of mellifluous charged language, and it’s the bedrock upon which …

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  Mia Quagliarello

  

  Jim Harris Was Paralyzed. Then He Ate Magic Mushrooms.

  Outside Magazine - Rachel Mabe

  After becoming paralyzed from the chest down, the mountain athlete found an unlikely ally in recovery: psychedelics Against all odds, Jim Harris was walking. It was exhausting, and he thought he looked like Frankenstein’s monster—stepping forward with his left leg, then throwing his unresponsive …

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  Mia Quagliarello

  

  The life-changing effects of hallucinations

  BBC Future - William Park

  Illusions brought on by drugs, lights and disease are giving us new insights into the inner workings of our brains. William Park ventured into his own induced hallucination to find out more. The Huichol tribe from the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Mexico can speak to spirits. They leave our …