Ancient psychedelic wisdom for modern medicine

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Originally published at: Ancient psychedelic wisdom for modern medicine - Boing Boing

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[ article posted by Allan Rose Hill ]

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[Naltrexone]

She says that if we can learn anything from the many thousands of years of use among ancient cultures, it is that the real power of psychedelics lies in their ability to encourage bonds between people and communities, as part of a collective experience

So… the real pharmacological efficacy of psychoactive compounds… is the friends we made along the way?

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… unless they have to prove it, in which case that finding evaporates as well

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@Naltrexone

So… the real pharmacological efficacy of psychoactive compounds

Nym checks out

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Let’s make an experiment, shall we:

@boingboing

She says that if we can learn anything from the many thousands of years of use among ancient cultures, it is that the real power of psychedelics beer lies in their ability to encourage bonds between people and communities, as part of a collective experience.

I’m not saying that to be facetious, but that statement is obviously true for a lot of substances.

And still some of those might also be effective in the form of pills for helping individuals with specific issues. One does not discount the other.

@Naltrexone

So… the real pharmacological efficacy of psychoactive compounds… is the friends we made along the way?

Or maybe it means that if taking psychedelics is embedded in culture in a way that it is neither seen as treatment nor as pure recreation, but as a communal and spiritual experience it will have an effect on communities.

The challenge that brings for Western societies is that we typically don’t have much of that kind of communities in the first place. Maybe we can start that cultural shift by handing out sacramental bread with a few drops of acid?