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The Trip Treatment - The New Yorker : "Annals of Medicine FEBRUARY 9, 2015 ISSUE The Trip Treatment Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results. BY MICHAEL POLLAN SHARETWEET TABLE OF CONTENTS  Psilocybin may be useful in treating anxiety, addiction, and depression, and in studying the neurobiology of mystical experience. CREDIT ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHEN DOYLE On an April Monday in 2010, Patrick Mettes, a fifty-four-year-old television news director being treated for a cancer of the bile ducts, read an article on the front page of the Times that would change his death. His diagnosis had come three years earlier, shortly after his wife, Lisa, noticed "  Psilocybin 'via Blog this'

Mushroom Trips Can Help With Anxiety - Business Insider : Roc Morin,  from the Atlantic Psilocybe Pelliculosa Mushrooms Lightworkerpeace/Wikimedia Commons Psilocybe Pelliculosa mushrooms, one of the more than 200 psilocybin-containing species. "Some of the things I'm about to say might not make sense," began O.M., a 22-year-old cancer survivor. He had the far-off look in his eyes that I recognized from so many of the other study participants. They sound like travelers, struggling to describe exotic foreign lands to the people left back home. That struggle is a sign that the treatment has worked. Ineffability is one of the primary criteria that define a mystical experience. "I was outside of my body, looking at myself," O.M. continued, "My body was lying on a stretcher in front of a hospital. I felt an incredible anxiety — the same anxiety I had felt every day since my diagnosis. Then, like a switch went on, I went from being anxious to analyzing my anxi...