Seems unwise, but I suppose the research has to be done:
The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, showed psilocybin affected two key areas of the brain. The amygdala – which is heavily involved in how we process emotions such as fear and anxiety – became less active. The greater the reduction, the greater the improvement in reported symptoms.
The default-mode network – a collaboration of different brain regions – became more stable after taking psilocybin.
Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of psychedelic research at Imperial, said the depressed brain was being “clammed up” and the psychedelic experience “reset” it.
He told the BBC News website: “Patients were very ready to use this analogy. Without any priming they would say, ‘I’ve been reset, reborn, rebooted’, and one patient said his brain had been defragged and cleaned up.”
However, this remains a small study and had no “control” group of healthy people with whom to compare the brain scans.
Amygdala is not bad. It is designed to drive you to improve the environment. My worry would be you take this, and next thing you know you can look at millions of Muslims from ISIS hotbeds flooding into your country, and you aren’t worried in the least. There are times you want your amygdala to freak out at what it sees, because that measurably improves survivability later.
Then again, I get the impression a problem with many leftists is that the amygdala they experience is overwhelming. They can’t touch it, because it is so painful. In those cases, it is not impossible that making the amygdala more tolerable might lead to them beginning to embrace it, rather than defaulting to denial, and just pretending everyone else’s concerns are overblown and they are all out of touch with reality.
Bottom line is we need to start breeding leftists like lab mice, so we can experiment with how best to reset them as conservatives.
Or, we could just wait for the Apocalypse to clean them all out of our populations. It would probably be easier, and yield results sooner.
Tell others about r/K Theory because if I was a liberal, I’d be on mushrooms too
You may be interestes to know that small doses of lsd and shrooms have long been quietly used by cluster headache patients to stop headache cycles.
Hmmn. An amygdala trigger setting off blood pressure and blood-flow distribution issues?
Be interesting to know what hypnosis would do, given its amygdala-altering properties. Especially if somebody had done schrooms, and could be guided ot artificially recreate the mental state of amygdala-relaxation.
I would not have linked the headaches to amygdala but i suppose its possible. My husband has suffered cluster headache cycles for decades, usually a 6 week bout every 2 years. He is a very type A personality. Since he was laid off from upper management and went back to his old union job 8 years ago he has only had 1 cycle, about 6 years ago. I would describe the office environment of his former management position as very toxic, high pressure. Lots of backstabbing and scheming there.
Usually the cycles are treated with oxygen and an injectable medication (i forget the name). I also remember carry grant or some other old time hollywood star successfully treating addiction to alcohol with small, doctor monitored doses of lsd. Its a fascinating subject. Too bad research is so limited by drug laws.
“My worry would be you take this, and next thing you know you can look at millions of Muslims from ISIS hotbeds flooding into your country, and you aren’t worried in the least. ”
No worries there.
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It isn’t like that, AC. From personal experience, the long-term effect on amygdala was nil. It’s memorable, and freeing in some minor but useful ways because it lowers mental walls and compartments for a short time. You remember that, and can draw on it as an experience. So if you need to step out of rigid or confining boxes/problems, that’s helpful. Lots of stories in tech about difficult technical problems being solved after “episodes” with psychedelics.
But it’s not that deep a reset. Your amygdala still works as it did before, as long as you don’t abuse the drug. Mind you, if the brain was in an unbalanced state or a locked loop, I could see a long term effect that people would experience as a reset. Sort of like having the elephant break its leg chain, and it’s easy. And the elephant goes “Ohhhh…. so THAT’s possible.”
Steve Jobs once said that tech would have been much better if Bill Gates had dropped LSD once or twice. Think of Windows’ rigid, everything in boxes, paint-by-numbers design, vs. Apple’s integrated flow. I think the above helps explain what Steve might have meant.
Fascinating. Thank you.
Hey goyim, take this very powerful drug and you’ll be a brilliant marketer!
Supposedly this stuff is pretty helpful. Lots of people take a low, sub-perceptual dose and it makes them more effective all around. This might be a good drug that the liberals ruined by abusing it in the 60s. Black Pigeon Speaks has a youtube video on it and there is a book- “A very Good Day,” it think it’s called on the subject.
Interesting how even Steve Jobs and Scott Adams seem to think a hit of acid is a good thing for most brains.
I went through a hardcore ketamine phase.
It helped me reset 20 years of severe acute panic.
It also helped me reembrace conservative values and red pill reality that until then I couldn’t handle.
My thoughts on the topic of psychedelics is endless.
I have so many questions about my own metamorphosis post-ketamine. It’s been a huge blessing in my life, once I kicked the addiction.
Fascinating. I do think Cocaine reduces social reticence. I had a friend who was an introvert like me. He spent one summer on a massive Coke binge, and came out of it the life of any party. I was always fascinated by that. He was a totally different person.