Another fantastic post! I continue to commend your skill with defining scientific procedures and anatomical structures discussed in research so fluidly into your personal accounts with psychadelics.
I challenge you to find a current pharmaceutical medication that can not only change the way you feel, the way you think about life and death – conventional wisdom stating that our personalities are set in stone – but with just ONE dose in a therapeutic environment, causes profound and enduring change.
Typically when discussing a treatment, we must be very careful about not flipping around words like "efficacy" (ability to produce desired results) and "efficiency" (completing activity with little waste of time, resources) but both are very applicable these psilocybin studies! The longevity of these reported improvements are amazing and the indicated results are impossible to deny. Perhaps MAPS is work on duplicating this study design to provide greater confidence in our results, as the more times we can independently replicate, the better chance that our hypothesis is correct!
The Black Army of fear and misinformation will lie conquered at our feet! :)
Thank you! It's not easy, and everything is a crash course. But I'm learning along the way. The more I do these, the more sense it'll make. Again, there is just too much science behind all of this! Thanks for reading!