Featured on a well-received 60 Minutes segment late last year, the center has had great success using psilocybin therapy sessions to offer relief to terminal patients facing crushing end-of-life fears.įor Lee’s part, she came to 5-MeO-DMT after years of self-reflection, meditation and therapy, and an understanding that altered states of consciousness can lead to profound insight. Griffiths’s rigorous academic examination of psychedelic states has been instrumental in the creation of the newly formed Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research.

Much of the recent awareness around these potentially palliative psychedelic drugs owes a great debt of gratitude to pioneering psychedelic explorers like Grof and Pollan (and a dozen other key figures before them), but also to modern researchers like Roland Griffiths at Johns Hopkins University. “By experiencing this profound connection with the universe and all living beings, one gets the feeling that we’re incredibly lucky to have even been birthed on this beautiful planet.” “Experiencing 5-MeO-DMT is this amazing feeling of ‘oceanic bliss,’” she says. She quotes a phrase by Stanislav Grof, the noted Czech psychiatrist with over 60 years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness, to describe the overall sensation. These are all things that every human being would agree make up a valuable life experience. Her descriptions after plunging into the expansiveness of toad are deeply profound, similar to Mike Tyson’s, a poetic unveiling of the underlying beauty of life: ‘a sense of sacredness, of oneness with the surrounding world, a profound positivity and comprehension of deep truths about reality and equanimity.’ “They had something they knew could help people heal themselves and they wanted to share it.” “They weren’t holding on to it like they had this sacred knowledge,” she says. The couple impressed her with their respect for the medicine and their pure intentions to help people. Trained by Silicon Valley tech people, she says she attended a daylong introduction on 5-MeO-DMT that included the discussion of guidelines and medical questionnaires around serving people. She even attended a wedding last year and had no problem being there without a partner - something that would have bothered her before the toad. Now, the Zoloft she once took for more than 15 years is currently collecting dust in her medicine cabinet. “One of the first things I thought after trying 5-MeO-DMT was, This is a cure for depression and PTSD,” says Lee.

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