Michael Taylor has never even smoked a cigarette. But he had the most joyous experience of his life while lying in an MRI machine after taking a dose of psilocybin.
Michael Taylor was lying in an MRI machine when he had the most joyous experience of his life.
He is one of 60 volunteers participating in PsiConnect, the first psychedelic trial in Australia involving healthy participants.“Finding people was hard because we wanted people who had never taken this drug before and don’t have any mental health history, even in their first-degree relatives,” says Associate Professor Adeel Razi, a neuroscientist from the Monash Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health.
Researchers such as Razi say rigorous scientific study is needed before they are integrated into publicly available therapy. Researchers are measuring the pattern of brain electrical activity in participants before and after they take 19 milligrams of synthesised psilocybin. “The other thing was, I suppose, I was just curious. I’m not a person who does drugs and the opportunity to pique that curiosity while under medical supervision and safe conditions, I thought, I might learn something from a personal level.”
About 60 per cent of the participants in the PsiConnect trial said it was one of the most meaningful and spiritually significant experiences of their life. This will help researchers determine what effects meditation may have on the brain and if the psychedelic experiences differ between the two groups.
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