Psychedelics form a new frontier of scientific research, particularly in the area of mental health – but the religious use of psychedelics stretches back thousands of years.
abc.net.au/news/religion-psychedelic-renaissance-peyote-magic-mushrooms-lsd/101346594In the last century, psychedelics have gone from being at the cutting edge of medical science, to a symbol of the 1960s counterculture, and back again.
Erika Gagnon and Michael Pollan talk about the therapeutic effects of plant-based psychedelics in How to Change Your Mind. While the original recipe of soma was lost long ago, some historians believe the brew contained psilocybin, the active compound found in magic mushrooms. After a federal ban in 1967, Native Americans won an exemption to use peyote for ceremonial purposes in the 1990s.
Wasson tried the mushrooms – which contain the active compound psilocybin – and wrote an article about his experience in Life magazine that caught the attention of Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary, who established the Harvard Psilocybin Project in 1960.
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