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The World's Largest Psychedelic Brain Study of Its Kind Just Found 'Hidden Order' in The Chaos


Psychedelics are becoming more clinically relevant, and a slew of recent research has explored the effects of psilocybin in ever-greater detail, revealing that it has the ability to imprint lasting, meaningful changes in brain activity.  Psilocybin, the psychoactive powerhouse in 'magic mushrooms', is thought to induce brain plasticity, reorganizing neural connections and signaling pathways to potentially alter our otherwise stagnant mind states.  Indeed, some users have reported increased universal immersion: a deconstruction and interconnection of the senses of space, time, and selfhood – a melding of one's identity into the cosmic milieu, if you will.  If this sounds a bit chaotic, some scientists agree.

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