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« on: July 24, 2006, 06:04:41 PM »

Johns Hopkins' study takes us back to the SMiLE days.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/10/psychedelic.research.ap/index.html
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2006, 06:38:08 PM »

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."

That doesn't sound like BW to me.  Smiley  Maybe he's in the other 20%?
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« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2006, 07:05:50 PM »

I think that Brian was obsessed with spreading that kind of "well-being" around. "Well, you're well, you're welcome."
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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2006, 12:23:25 AM »

I don't quite get the experience of the birth of a child and the death of a parent being similar.  I'd have to think those that rated it on the death of a parent scale must have been the 20% that weren't as thrilled with it.   Any experiment that involves volunteering for a psychedelic experience has to be a skewed sample, I'd assume, so the results should be viewed with a little bit of skepticism.
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« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2006, 05:24:14 AM »

The birth of a child or death of a parent examples are to show how much of a life changing event the mystical experience is. It's a measure of impact.

Here's another link;
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/07_11_06.html

There are a few things that are worth noting about the study.

The people in the study were around 46 years old & they all had a religious background. It was done in an environment meant to reduce the chance of bad trips.

I think that all of these things contributed to the positive outcome of the experiment.
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