STUDIES

post: http://researchandspew.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/science-in-popular-culture/

Indeed, “core phenomena” of psychedelic effects are what inspire and sustain piqued interest in them. There is a healthy side and a vital potential there, especially insofar as real human interest, desire to know, curiosity are involved — the fire under the ass that has driven our species entire intellectual adventure over its long history, the entire legacy of thought and understanding.

The most important recent research on this, I’d think, is that of Griffiths and associates at Johns Hopkins.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_releases/2006/07_11_06.html

http://www.maps.org/media/view/mystics_under_the_microscope/

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john halpern & longetrm effects of peyote on native americans

effects of peyote on Native Americans,

Halpern has this year started a company that hopes to market a drug to those who suffer from cluster headaches, a debilitating illness. Many sufferers have found relief with LSD. Halpern is developing a drug that uses the non-psychoative derivative of LSD known as BOL-148. In what many consider a surprising move, he’s named his company Entheogen, Corp.

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Jack Cowan – Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain (2006)

Preposterous Universe – Hallucinatory Neurophysics