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    Psychedelics Essay

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    The use of psychedelics for Spiritual purposes, etc. “Psychoactive substances exert their their effects by modifying biochemical or physiological processes in the brain.” Psychedelics are taken out of context to be for recreational use only, when they can be taken to enhance spiritual journeys. Psychedelics have been used for spiritual journeys and religious rituals for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians have used the “Blue Lotus” by putting it in their wine for recreational use. The flower

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    Psychedelic Drugs

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    Psychedelic drugs have been used by people around the globe for the last few decades. They’re known for their abilities to alter perception and invoke behavioral alterations in people who consume the drugs, such as psilocybin (magic mushrooms), DMT, and Lysergic acid diethylamide(LSD). In 1958 (Moore, Hatada, Dominos) it was found that when consumed by humans, N-N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), causes visuals that make up of colorful, luminous, rapid changing visual illusions and hallucinations. Ingestion

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    Psychedelic music is a style of music that emerges in the midst of psychedelic culture, which was essentially inspired by hallucinogens and psychedelic drugs. The genre developed around mid 1960s where it spread among folk and blues musician. It often applied new recording methods and effects and illustrated on non-western sources especially Indian music. The psychedelic scene usually consists of a swarm of hippies playing and enjoying music to heighten their lsd and hallucinatory trips. In the 1960s

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    The Psychedelic Era

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    The Psychedelic Era started in the 1960’s and went all the way to 1975. This movement not only influenced music and art but influenced a wide variety of things including pop culture, dress and wardrobe, language, literature and philosophy. The Psychedelic Era was mostly influenced by the drug culture, especially LSD, from the youth movements that were trying to create a society free from discrimination. After WWII, launched the “baby boom” where nearly 76 million babies were born in America between

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    medical professionals and researchers have been attempting to utilize psychedelic drugs in psychological illnesses treatments. In many testing cases, these psychedelic drugs were having hallucination effects on the patients. For examples, psychedelic drugs such as LSD and methoxamine are capable of changing a person’s moods, feelings, or even behaviors in either positive or negative ways. However, after decades of restriction on psychedelic drugs in 1960s, hallucinogens have been researched constantly in

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    What’s that sound? Psychedelic Music, Psychedelic Mindset MUSIC 402 ZHIHE WANG 10112719 The definition of Psychedelic music Psychedelic has been seen as a psychedelic culture in 1960s, a subculture of people who used the psychedelic drugs such as: LSD, psilocybin mushrooms to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness. So as Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres influenced by the 1960s and emerged during

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    Psychedelic Drugs (aka Psychedelics) Introduction: Throughout human history people have sought experiences that somehow transcend every day life. Some sort of wisdom that might progress their knowledge of self and of the world that they live in. For some reason they believed that the tangible world just could not be all there is to life. Some believed in a greater force that controlled them, some believed of invisible beings that influenced their lives, some of an actual other world that paralleled

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    Further on the list of psychoactive drugs include those of the psychedelic variety. These would include the chemicals such as d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), peyote and psilocybin among others. All of which have hallucinogenic properties that tend to blur the line between fantasy and reality. How dangerous are these chemicals, and what are the consequences of sustained long term use? Due to the controversial nature of the use of psychedelic drugs in a medical setting, the study of short and long term

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    in seeing images, hearing sounds and feeling sensations that seem very real but do not exist, to hallucinogens as a better and summarized definition replacement (2016). True to some level, the two categories that make up hallucinogens, classical psychedelics and dissociative drugs, each specialize into specific psychological harm, which correspondingly, simplifies our broad description in what hallucinogens commonly cause. Once a classical hallucinogen, like LSD, psilocybin, and DMT, is taken and ingested

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    but also harming it in the meanwhile. Natural highs such as meditation and lucid dreaming give a similar psychedelic experience and putting your mind in a different reality. The mind can do amazing things, but just as easily be harmed. While there are drugs to give a psychedelic experience there is also a concept of lucid dreaming. It is not common although it is found to give more of a psychedelic experience than other things. This concept takes the minds consciousness of sleeping and turns it into

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