Originally published at: Author Mark Dery's account of taking magic mushrooms as a treatment for angst | Boing Boing
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Micro-dosing 'shrooms can be an effective part of therapy.
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It’s super interesting what he’s discussing here.
My tendency to have angsty moments much like he describes in the essay is why I have always felt uneasy about tripping. What if one of those bleak moments appear whilst on a drug, and the intoxication were to prevent me from snapping out of it?
However, Dery seems to describe that the shrooms can be the best antidote against those thoughts/feelings. Extremely fascinating. If someone could convince me of a relatively risk free way to get there I’d do it tomorrow if I could.
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After refreshing myself on the definition of the word Angst, I’m sitting here wondering if this article is about curing a natural and normal reaction to the current state of human progress and development rather than a health problem.
I’m definitely not down on the theraputic benefits of mushrooms though. I’ve heard they can do great things for depression.
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No, angst is not a health problem. Rather, a sign of a healthily inquisitive mind I’d say.
But as far as we are talking about a cure I guess one could say that angst is a kind of rhetorical dead end, and Dery seems to be suggesting that temporarily messing about with your neurological pathways for a bit can get you out of this particular thought pattern.
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