Spread It Around
As I drive to work pondering a general lack of integrity in society, reflections upon the Jeff Goldstein affair, I have too many thoughts to express coherently.
Later, I find a CNN article with what my just be the solution to the spiritual deficit I feel is evident in most facets of modern life. We need more of this stuff:
Even two months after taking the drug… most of the volunteers said the experience had changed them in beneficial ways, such as making them more compassionate, loving, optimistic and patient. Family members and friends said they noticed a difference, too.
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That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say "they can't possibly put it into words," Griffiths said.
Two months later, 24 of the participants filled out a questionnaire. Two-thirds called their reaction to psilocybin one of the five top most meaningful experiences of their lives. On another measure, one-third called it the most spiritually significant experience of their lives, with another 40 percent ranking it in the top five.
About 80 percent said that because of the psilocybin experience, they still had a sense of well-being or life satisfaction that was raised either "moderately" or "very much."
A life-altering spiritual experience resulting in heightened feelings of joy, peace, and love… Yeah, that's the ticket!