By Simon G. Powell
How psilocybin mushrooms facilitate an instantaneous hyperlink to the knowledge of Nature and the which means of lifestyles
• Examines the neurochemistry underlying the visionary psilocybin adventure
• Explains how sacred mushrooms aid repair our connection to the traditional intelligence of Nature
• experiences the learn on psilocybin’s skill to dispel nervousness within the terminally ailing and its worthy results on obsessive-compulsive sickness
It has been greater than 50 years due to the fact sacred mushrooms have been plucked from the shamanic backwaters of Mexico and awarded to the trendy global by way of R. Gordon Wasson. After sparking the psychedelic period of the Sixties, even though, the divine mushroom back underground from whence it mysteriously originated. but at the present time, the mushroom’s notable impression is once more being felt by way of huge numbers of individuals, as a result of discovery of 1000s of untamed psilocybin species transforming into around the globe.
In The Psilocybin Solution, Simon G. Powell strains the background of the sacred psilocybin mushroom and discusses the shamanic visionary results it could actually set off. Detailing how psilocybin acts as a profound enhancer of attention and reviewing the study played by way of the Multidisciplinary organization for Psychedelic experiences (MAPS), Johns Hopkins collage, and the Heffter examine Institute on psilocybin’s skill to dispel nervousness within the terminally unwell and its invaluable results on obsessive-compulsive illness, he examines the neurochemistry, psychology, and spirituality underlying the visionary psilocybin adventure, revealing the interface the place actual mind and awake brain meet. exhibiting that the life of existence and the functioning of brain are the results of a certainly clever, self-organizing Universe, he explains how sacred mushrooms offer an immediate hyperlink to the knowledge of Nature and the that means of lifestyles.
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Indeed, if we were not conscious beings, we would not be in a position to seek explanations about the nature of reality in the first place. It is only because we are conscious and because we stand in a mindful relationship to the reality process that we feel compelled to account for our existence. Our conscious minds long for knowledge about the Universe so that we might understand both our place within the totality of existence and the natural forces that led to our being here. Hence the enterprise of science (which means “to know”).
The Wassons theorized that it was this archaic shamanic practice of fly agaric ingestion, so well reflected in legend and mythology, that eventually led to the mycophobic pre-Christian taboos against eating mushrooms, which were still evidently shared by most of the peoples living around the shores of the North Sea. In other words, because the fly agaric mushroom was used mainly by shamans in a ritual context, cultural injunctions and taboos would conceivably have evolved to stop others wantonly utilizing its strange power.
Very good news indeed. So stand by for a controversial tale of a recently rediscovered entheogenic substance native to most parts of the Earth’s Temperate Zone. And brace yourself for the astonishing insights into mind and Nature that this substance provokes. Fasten your seat belts, because if I have done my job correctly, you are poised for a roller coaster ride into the very heart of the mystery of existence. As the chapters unfold we will gradually climb up to a peak, from which point we will be propelled through exhilarating vistas in which the significance of consciousness is breathtakingly apparent.