I’ll never forget my first time mushrooms a couple months ago and it was such a beautiful experience. It’s a game changer for severe depression and anxiety……Peace! Truly one of the most remarkable phenomenons on the planet
Since I tired psychedelics for the first time, I’ve been trying to describe the experience to others so there can try it as well, but i couldn’t find the right words to describe it.
I have stage 4 cancer, and I have legally used psychedelic therapy to treat my end of life anxiety. (I'm the first Canadian to legally do this) I've had some extremely good results from this treatment, and I can personally verify that it is usually effective for about 6 months for me. Thanks for helping to get good information out that might aid others who are struggling.
DONT DO PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS IF YOU ARE NOT READY!!! I don’t know how to stress this enough, if you are anxious at all before you trip it is best not to take the risk, you need to know what you are going to do while you are tripping before you begin your trip (your going to forget but it’s good to have a game plan if you get bored or start having a bad trip), and always have a trip sitter. Only take about 100 micrograms or 1 tab of acid at the most for your first time and it would probably be better if you did less. If your doing shrooms start with 1-1.5 grams. Normally if you want a true psychedelic experience on shrooms people say take 3.5 grams. DO NOT TAKE A FULL DOSE UNTIL YOU HAVE ALREADY TRIED THE PSYCHEDELIC I cannot stress this enough. You are not ready for it. Start slow follow those rules and I promise you will have a good time.
It was the opposite for me. I had no idea what I was getting into, took 7gs with some friends and I was transported into another realm. It felt like i was there for a long long time. But it was also great because I had no idea what I was getting into. Now that I know a lot about them, I just freak out every time. But not everyone will have the same experience I did. Being with good friends probably saved me from freaking out
This is 100% true. But also, having someone there to trip sit you makes a HUGE difference. I remember, me and a couple of my friends did acid for the first time not knowing how it was, and the first 2-3 hours were good, we were watching cool videos and having a laugh but then we got bored and everyone just went back home, and then it got dark for me. On the other hand, I was trip sitting my friend who was doing acid for the first time and he had an AMAZING experience. He still talks about it to this day lmao 😂. His entire trip was amazing because I was there with him making sure no negative energy could ruin his trip. Because once a bad vide or a bad thought is brought up or thought about while doing psychedelics, it’s almost impossible to make your mind stop racing about the topic. So, I made sure he and I were in a good mood the entire time. I agreed with everything he was saying and kinda just kept a chill vibe. It was great, but I wish someone was there to do that for me. That is very important.
Exploring psilocybin was a profound journey for me, it was the beginning of my path towards healing after years of battling heroin addiction. I'm 3 years clean now and i must tell you, the experience was incredibly therapeutic. It felt like a gentle unraveling of the knots in my mind, lifting the heavy fog of depression and anxiety that had plagued me for so long.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire article about psychedelics. They saved you from death bud, lets be honest.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? 🙏
My parents have both done therapy sessions involving psychedelics. My dad used to be constantly angry and snapping at everyone if you don't do exactly what was said right away and mom has progressively gotten afraid of her own shadow. After the sessions, I told my dad for the first time I'm taking a break from school. I fully expected retaliation and him to make me suffer. What I got instead, was advice on how to handle my mental health and not give up on school. He's pushing me to go to therapy and my whole family to get the help we need. It isn't a miracle drug. The drug is not what made this change. However, it helped him get new incites in to what we're feeling, how he feels about everything amd everyone, and how he chooses to see the world. Mom just had her first session but she's making small strides to betterment. I feel like I lost my family a long time ago and now I feel like I'm getting them back again. It's truly a time to be alive.
My ex step-mom is a narcissist, and doing psychedelics twice, made her legit get to her senses both times. She was so genuinely shocked and apologetic about her behavior, is like for the first time ever she was present and we could talk to her and be listened, she wasn’t on an eternal monologue anymore… then it wears off and is like her defense mechanism returns, and she’s not focusing her eyes on you anymore, back at living an alternative life where she’s the main character and we’re just part of her storyline, always trying to screw her up and take her shine and that’s why she’s always so unhappy.. I want more than anything for narcissism to be cured somehow, and maybe this may be one step to the solution if one is ever possible…
spi wrote, _"It isn't a miracle drug. The drug is not what made this change. However, it helped him get new incites in to what we're feeling, how he feels about everything amd everyone, and how he chooses to see the world."_ So, before taking the drug, he was volatile and abusive. After taking the drug, he's calm and more of a counselor. But, you say that _"the drug is not what made this change."_ What better explanation do you have for his abrupt changes for the better?
@@RichardHarlos Yeah it's such BS when people say "it's not the drugs, it's drugs+paying someone to help" because I've done both separately, and believe me when I say therapy did nothing to cure my fear of death but drugs did.
Psychedelic therapy is just one of those great leaps in the mental health space. It’s wonderful and the fact they serve recreational use and health as well.
Phsychedelics helped me quit illicit pills addiction, I was messed up I was depressed and a danger to myself. Good videos and help like this should be seen always.
Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, I would like to give them a try but haven't found anyone that deals on them
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporesss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
The Trips I've been having have really helped me a lot,I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
Psychedelics have the potential to make a significant impact on mental health issues like anxiety and depression. They've been incredibly helpful for me personally.
Ayahuasca was mind blowing for me. I found myself in a world where swirling colors created a mesmerizing kaleidoscope. Time stretched as I explored cosmic landscapes, feeling a profound connection to everything. It left me with a deep sense of peace and wonder, realizing the limitless potential of the mind.
what you are really doing right now is what the hippies did back then. what psychedellics, and its promotion, really does, is allows you to plant more chaos in news and events. you really even just lets the door open in your video, just exactly for this. (by you i mean the entire channel and its supporters. you are just a hippie actor, like all actors.) which is what you are really after, and what the hippies were after, in the past. for people like you and hippies, its liberating. and over 80% of the world populace is actually like this. so, there is no problem with promoting widespread psychedellics, legally, as 80% of the goverment is yours the world over. the issue hoever is, you goal is to generate fear. and the possibility that psychedellics could be legal soon, generates more fear, then, if psychedellics are legal and everyone already uses them. which is why, you will never make psychedellics legal, but always make it appear that, there is a big push going on, and psychedellics will soon be legal. its the same as, how, savegery is always appearing to be increasing, but it never really does. unless you rebrand "psychedellics", and come up with another thing, another brand, to generate fear, you will never make psychedellics readily available. generating fear is the real medicine of the many.
@@JuanLopez-uv5tg and how do they raise these millions? cause millions of people support them. the same millions of people who vote and elect governments, and can topple them whenever they want. conduct research however they want. interpret results however they want. there is no reason why they havent legalised psychedellics yet, if they wanted, except for the reason i mentioned.
@@whatsappvideos9665 Empath has since raised $2.1 million of a $10 million target for its first fund and made 10 investments. Portfolio companies include Mindstate
I had been going to therapy for about 18 months to help with depressions, anxiety, anger and alcohol misuse, while only making a little progress. I took acid at a festival and then everything that I'd been trying to change just 'fell into place'. It's hard to describe but to me it felt like someone turned a key and the door I'd been pushing on for so long just flew open. Everything fell into place instantly.
They already know they can tax it. I think the issue is that it make people NOT be sheep. It's more difficult to control people when they have a mind of their own.
@@_Ape_ The taxation of marijuana would be at a State level, so there's no incentive to legalize federally. In actual fact, the places where legalization has happened align perfectly with this narrative.
I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage. Got diagnosed with ADHD. Spent my whole life fighting ADHD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Ive done shrooms last month. It taught me how severely traumatized I was from alcohol. I healed from many mental traumas from my past and was able to forgive, let go. Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I even felt more refreshed the morning after. So no hangovers. No depression mood for days. No anxiety. I now have a more calm mind.
Yes he's Dr.alishrooms. Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.
I really appreciate not only the discussion of psychedelics but also the way the researcher characterized PTSD, depression, smoking, alcoholism as a "narrowed mental and behavioral repertoire". I found that description to be profound in its economy of words. I think that was very validating to the experience of being stuck in one of those ruts. And the prospect of something to help blast yourself out of one is just incredible.
All of these conditions, including ADHD, CAD, CDD, ADD, and many others have to do mostly with brain chemistry and are, in their core, neurological disorders. It's the brain's hardware and chemistry in disarray, and these therapies may help rearrange these brains to proper functions. Source: Dude, trust me. I have ADHD, diagnosed since 6 years old, and am a chronic online researcher :)
what you are really doing right now is what the hippies did back then. what psychedellics, and its promotion, really does, is allows you to plant more chaos in news and events. you really even just lets the door open in your video, just exactly for this. (by you i mean the entire channel and its supporters. you are just a hippie actor, like all actors.) which is what you are really after, and what the hippies were after, in the past. for people like you and hippies, its liberating. and over 80% of the world populace is actually like this. so, there is no problem with promoting widespread psychedellics, legally, as 80% of the goverment is yours the world over. the issue hoever is, you goal is to generate fear. and the possibility that psychedellics could be legal soon, generates more fear, then, if psychedellics are legal and everyone already uses them. which is why, you will never make psychedellics legal, but always make it appear that, there is a big push going on, and psychedellics will soon be legal. its the same as, how, savegery is always appearing to be increasing, but it never really does. unless you rebrand "psychedellics", and come up with another thing, another brand, to generate fear, you will never make psychedellics readily available. generating fear is the real medicine of the many.
Research shows that psilocybin mushrooms have promising results for mental health support, particularly in reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD.
I have to say, Cleo. The way that you approach subjects with an open mind, but always sceptical and truth seeking is very inspiring and great to see when sharing information like this. Keep up the good work and curiosity! I always love hearing about the topics you delve into as it is entertaining and educational. Thank you :)
I have struggled with ADD/ADHD for most of my life, and I am in my late 50's. After failed efforts of trying Ritalin and Adderall, and dealing with negative side effects of those drugs, a close friend talked me into micro-dosing LSD. In desperation, I tried it. It has completely changed my life. I am a completely different person. I kept it secret from my closest friends for almost a year, but people who had known me for years talked about how I seemed like a different person, someone who was comfortable in their own skin, relaxed, self assured, thoughtful, measured. They would always joke by saying "What ever you're taking I want some of that" and I would just smile and not tell them what had changed me lol. I fear that these types of treatment will never be legal because the corrupt pharma companies have too powerful of a lobby in Washington. Pharma companies want people to remain sick. Their worse fear would be for our population to become more healthy.
@@je6874 Nobody's gonna tell you where to source LSD in youtube comments. It's currently black market. And if you go with black market, you better know you can trust your source with your life, because some unscrupulous individuals will maybe lie about what they are selling and sell you drugs that really can and do kill people. Regulated and supervised drug use would probably result in far fewer deaths but right now there are a lot of fentanyl deaths, so be very careful with that. (Also you could go to jail in many jurisdictions; if you care about your freedom you should look at what's legal where you live.)
Thank you, Cleo, for an informative and helpful video. The '60's and '70's bracketed my young adult years. Back then, you could be offered a "toke" from a "joint"-Marijuana cigarette just by catching a ride with a friend in his car. As I matured and married, the anti-drug fervor gripped the country. A great deal of shame was doled out as parents and authority figures showed disgust towards any and all who were experimenting with Marijuana or mushrooms. I am in my early 70's now and have been plagued by clinical depression most of my life. I have found some relief through my faith, alternative medicines, and meditation techniques. Your videos are encouraging and helpful, pointing the way for younger generations to find relief and new tools to overcome emotional and behavioral challenges they may encounter on their life journey.
Psychedelic therapy is just one of those great leaps in the mental health space. It’s wonderful and the fact they serve recreational use and health as well. Can’t say I don’t trip once in a while.
Psychedelics tend to fix problems at their core,unlike modern medicine which tries to fix the symptoms. This is why psychedelics work great for depression,addiction etc.
Psychedelic help a lot and they’re like a cheat sheet to life, but you could also experience the same things. Psychedelic amp tf out whilst being sober, meditation and astral projection are key.
I'm so glad we're heading in the right direction on this. I went to an ayahuasca retreat about 7 years ago. I was just curious and someone told me it really helped them figure things out. What I got was way more than I expected. I was expecting an exciting and interesting trip, but what I got was a truth about myself and my family that I had somehow buried since childhood. It not only revealed a deep truth about me and my family, but it allowed me to continue with truth in my life. Not only that, but for the first time in my life, I felt some kind of presence if you will, a higher presence that some would call religious. I felt connected to the world around me in a way I had never felt before. I will forever be grateful to that experience and wish more people could have something similar, I think it could genuinely help a lot of people in ways they don't even realize.
Agree. Thanks for sharing your story with the world♥️ (Thing is long warning) I tried it and it was a crazy experience to sum it up. I cried and screamed and my neighbors saw I think since I was in my car with my bf and that’s embarrassing me right now but I’m trying to not think of it. It made me think of a lot of things and brought things buried in me to the surface. My bf and I had talked about our relationship too and probably helped us both kind of wake up to the loop we were living in. Hopefully tomorrow morning we’ll still have the same motivation to strive for better.
Research suggests Classic psychedelics such as DMT,LSD,and psilocybin mushrooms can facilitate deep personal insights and self awareness Foster empathy,compassion.
Microdosing psilocybin interrupted my addiction cycle ,enhancing self-awareness and emotional regulation. My story illustrates its potential as a therapeutic tool in conjunction with professional guidance and support
It's a trick to grab your attention, the animated hand move, grabbing the camera, talking like you are sitting in the room with them. Make no mistake cleo is not your friend.
As a person who has social anxiety, I can see how this can really help! Imagine if you have an irrational fear of people because of your past experiences, which might not be significant to others but to you personally has become a point of trauma. What I would give to be able to reset my brain and clear it of the irrational fear I have of just so many things... Fears that I don't even understand fully why it happens, just that I feel its to do with how my brain decided to rewire itself due to past trauma. If you could hit the reset button on all that, imagine the years not wasted trying to rewire the brain, and instead just hit reset and start fresh! Quality of life improvement, hell yeah!
@@mattb6646It's the thought of having a "reset button" that I'm referring to. you don't have to go far to find that even a beer or a cigarrette can do that. Hit it too often and, voila! alcoholism, anyone?!
I had very hard time having a connection with others or even myself through out my life growing up. I did not have a good empathetic skills, for anyone, even worse to myself. it's been 3 years that me with a small group of friends organise a psychedelic experience. We spend months curating psychedelic get together experience(I am so thankful that we treat psychedelic with respects and therapeutically). My life changed forever because of it. it stripped me down completely of my ego, judgements,fear, anxiety, and all the negative impulsive thoughts. For the first time I could hear myself, talk to my deepest self. For the first time I could sync with others emotionally. All and all, I truly see the value of the acts of kindness and compassion. expecially, the way that i see, think, and treat myself(forever) .... It is such a privilege for me to have experienced.
Measured approach is always the way to go. Establishing widespread public policies on something that's not fully understood based on fear is wrong on so many levels. Cleo did an awesome job to articulate this: that it stifled decades of what would've been meaningful research. But better late than never. I have been dealing with anxiety my entire life and I honestly want to try psilocybin to treat this condition. I've tried everything from meditation, anti-anxiety meds, exercising, etc., but I'm still dealing with anxiety. More manageable yes, but the ever present, underlying feeling of anxiety sucks. Anyway, great video Cleo. I honestly get inspired by how you and your team present the information.
Psilocybin is definitely worth trying! It may not cure your anxiety, but it can greatly help. LSD can also be very helpful, it's a more intense trip that can get incredibly emotional, but I've always found it beneficial. The most important thing is to remember that the hallucinations are temporary (it's good to write down the dose and the time at which you took them as a reminder), and also don't do psychedelics around strangers or people that don't approve of it, they can absolutely ruin the whole thing. Happy tripping!
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I've taken esketamine treatments for a year, it was FDA approved in 2019 and you basicly go into a hospital to get it and stay there supervised for 2 hours. People with major depression are quite cynical about treatments, since the success rates after the first couple of meds you try are nearly none existent. But what I found was that (most) people really appreciated and were grateful for the effects of this one. It's not perfect and didn't make anybody a fully functioning person again, but it's really helpful. As far as how it feels, for me it's like meeting myself without all the negative emotions I harbored towards myself over the years. That makes room for self compassion and feeling more at ease for some days after the treatment as well. Despite all that it's limited, and hasn't done all I've hoped it would. After a year it didn't feel as effective as it was in the beginning, but I was also in a better place(relatively) and couldn't justify the price tag and the fact that someone on the huge waiting list could benefit from it more than I was(very limited number of spots since it takes place in a hospital). But it's been so much more effective than any treatment I've received before and made me a lot more hopeful and excited for the treatments to come once they're made widely available!
Depressed people are cynical about everything, it's a core trait of depression. This is why psychedelics are so powerful in treating depression, they break up deeply rooted thought patterns and expand people's mind so they can see past their own cynicism. I don't think ketamine is nearly as effective as LSD or psilocybin though, just speaking from extensive experience.
Try psilocybin or LSD. Ketamine provides dissociative relief for symptoms, but other psychedelics work almost exactly opposite. They shove your face into the ground of reality and say, “are you sure about all this?” Trips for me are never easy but they do this and unlock a lot of memories and with them comes cathartic healing.
@@steinarjonsson_at least from what my therapist has told me, it’s just way easier for them to get ketamine than psilocybin or MDMA (which the clinic I go to for ketamine treatments does do but a lot less frequently). Hopefully access to things like psilocybin gets easier. Legally and for treatment I mean, I know you can just buy mushrooms online.
Your cursory analysis of psychedelic use and treatment is a good intro to those who are uninformed. This is a vast topic that requires hours and hours of research and reading. A basic understanding of chemistry goes a long way as well. Good luck to all those willing to do the work.
what you are really doing right now is what the hippies did back then. what psychedellics, and its promotion, really does, is allows you to plant more chaos in news and events. you really even just lets the door open in your video, just exactly for this. (by you i mean the entire channel and its supporters. you are just a hippie actor, like all actors.) which is what you are really after, and what the hippies were after, in the past. for people like you and hippies, its liberating. and over 80% of the world populace is actually like this. so, there is no problem with promoting widespread psychedellics, legally, as 80% of the goverment is yours the world over. the issue hoever is, you goal is to generate fear. and the possibility that psychedellics could be legal soon, generates more fear, then, if psychedellics are legal and everyone already uses them. which is why, you will never make psychedellics legal, but always make it appear that, there is a big push going on, and psychedellics will soon be legal. its the same as, how, savegery is always appearing to be increasing, but it never really does. unless you rebrand "psychedellics", and come up with another thing, another brand, to generate fear, you will never make psychedellics readily available. generating fear is the real medicine of the many.
Hey, currently awaiting to be admitted into a doctoral program where i hope to conduct MDMA-assisted group therapy study. I have dedicated my life to psychedelics becoming at least medicalized. Im 40 now, it may have taken too long, but im so happy they are finally being recognized for the amazing tool they are. Seeing the psychedelic science summit go from 1k people to 18k this year was amazing. I cant waot for the next one. As leary put it, "it takes a generation to usltilize technologies [psychedelics] like these."
@Ryan88881 not in the traditional sense, sure. But for most context, it's a psychedelic. It shares enough properties with psychedelics to be considered psychedelic-like in most aspects.
@@noahbodhi8657 It really shares virtually no properties except some clarity effects and the fact that it's not intoxicating in its feel (except at certain lowish doses). Or some small hints of similar visual components but you're still comparing apples to elephants at the end of the day. MDMA is ultimately just an amphetamine stimulant with a tinge of psychedelia in terms of perception, but not at all in cognition. There is no abstraction or emotional vulnerability or true crispness and exploring going on.
@@noahbodhi8657 Real psychedelics (even cannabis) have basically shamanic characteristics whereas MDMA is merely psychosocial. And even the lesser, more superficial psychedelics still have "mind-opening" qualities while MDMA is really just a modulation and uplifting stabilization in mood.
Phase III, placebo controlled, multicenter, double blind, clinical trial is the final step before legalization and the outcome is so important and the words used in this journal article are the most positive that I have ever heard in a medical journal as I have read 1000s and have published many of my own but Nature Med is a journal every medical researcher would love to be accepted in and my best friend is a professor of neurological surgery and he got first author in Nature Med! Wow! I was so proud of him. But, the when the Article appeared which addressed what I have been suffering with for 10 years. I have cleared all the hurdles and am waiting for the date.
I took psilocybin a few years ago and, besides allaying my anxiety for months after, I can definitely say it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life. It completely changed my perception of the world in the most positive and profound way, and I think about the experience on a nearly daily basis. I can only hope others can experience the same journey and effects themselves.
Good segment. I'm happy that this area is moving forward. What's missing from this is mentioning that the toxicity, physiologically, of mushrooms, DMT and LSD is practically zero. Also the fact almost everybody( apart from the very few who should not go near them) can get benefits and new perspectives from taking these compounds. Not just the people who suffer from the maladies discussed above. If you are sound of mind and reasonably happy, we also should be able to take these things and have some fun and have our brains re-wired from time to time. These things are non-addictive!
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It's fantastic that psychedelics are finally getting some research again. As a person who has previously used psychedelics on occasion, I just cannot imagine doing mushrooms at a doctors/therapists office. It sounds so bizzare and I think that would give me a bad trip. The natural place to do psychedelics is in the woods or a nature setting, preferably with music and friends so you can laugh and explore a new world together in a more relaxed setting where you don't feel trapped or under any pressure and if it were to turn bad in your head you've got people there you know and trust to help get you back to enjoying it again.
The woods would certainly be a good setting for the experience as long as an uninvited grizzly bear or a pack of wolves don't show up to spoil the party.
You took them to party. The doses they are talking about in these settings are much more and much more potent. It’s not meant for college kids to party this is for terminally Ill patients. There’s always a shaman involved and their experiences were way beyond anything you lightly dabbled in. It has helped people whom are going to die within months no longer fear death.
There's also micro dosing which has a benefit but I think it's missing the point, if I needed serious help I'd go to mother aioaska. I'm sure the treatment room would be conducive to a safe trip, the therapist must have some training akin to shamanism dealing with this stuff.
I did 4g alone at home first time while listening to psytrance. You see more visuals that way, I felt like a cave man boarding an UFO. I think you should be fine as long you feel safe and listening to something
The reason Nixon and schrodinger outlawed L.S.D. is the military did an experiment on a group of soldiers that had been trained to kill. After the soldiers took L.S.D. they told the military they refused to kill, would never shoot that gun again and we're dropping out the military. Nixon then realized why so many people had become enlightened and were protesting war. I was born gay and by 10yo was very depressed. Society made me want to die. I started taking shrooms & L.S.D. at 17yo. It helped me love myself and fixed my depression. Life went on and I became consumed with work. I became depressed again. I went to doctors and tried many antidepressants that did not work. I turned to Alcohol and hermon for over 10 years living in misery. Around 10 years ago it hit me. I was never depressed when all I did was smoke weed and eat shrooms. Then I saw the studies. I ordered a shroom growing kit and started micro dosing. Life is absolutely wonderful. The last 10 years have been amazing. The only thing that matters in life is love.
I just found your videos yesterday and I love them! Science and tech are such fascinating fields that have so much to be desired in terms of discovery, so I love learning more about the advancements in both fields.
This is such a good video. I only recently found your channel but I am in love with the content. Your videos manage to present somewhat complex and debated topics in such an easy to understand format. Also, love how you keep to the facts and make sure it's all based on science. Keep up the amazing work :)
Been doing psylocibin weekly for a year and it's cured my depression, managed my bipolar disorder to the point where my baseline off meds is better than any other point on or off meds; my anxiety has gone from regularly shaking my legs to not being able to remember the last time I had restless legs keep me up. There've been some other effects including restored hearing which helped me (as a singer) begin singing better. My ability to visualize things has skyrocketted, I calculate math using weird visuals but it allows me to do larger calculations in my head than what I could do before. I've developed better balance, I used to veer to the sides when I'd walk straight but now my body walks in a way that just feels like it makes sense and I keep better footing as a result. 7/8 would recommend
Another great video Cleo! I love the way you objectively handle the topic. Having some experience with psychedelics in my youth, one of the biggest problems and what drives a lot of the negativity toward them, is that on the street, you don't really know what you're getting. There can be contamination. Mixing the drug with other drugs. You don't really know the dose you're taking.It's a free-for-all. And honestly some people just can't handle them. It's too strange. With regulated purity, dosing and in some cases supervision, I can see how psychedelics could be very therapeutic.
Dosing is a little tricky. I find you don't have to get "high" for long term benefits.. a 1/2" peice of stem pulled me out of deep depression like magic.. It allows your mind to rewire itself. Like defragmenting does for your hard drive ..
Thank you Cleo and Team for your awesome content, and for this episode! I'm excited to see where and how the medical industry is able to treat those living with the noted conditions. With many in my life dealing with these (along with myself), new treatments could be a real life changer! Science over stigma!
Just found this channel and I'm hooked. This is far better than anything you see on live TV nowadays. As someone who has had their perception of life changed by LSD and Mushrooms or "Shrooms", I found this video to be extremely interesting and intriguing. The episodes in general are all entertaining and now boring like some informational shows can be.
*Psychedelic definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PTSTD,ADDICTION,TRAUMA AND DEPRESSION ETC.The experience gave me freedom.I was Able to get shrooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to my location without hassel*
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression , anxiety and illicit pill addiction . Imagine carrying heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone . Believe it or not in a couple years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues . ⠀
Psychedelic is the answer to most severe anxiety and depression ... The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself ... I used antidepressants for some years but it only made me feel like a zombie but with immediate use of mushroom in few months I feel like I'm living a whole new Life .
I have researched and found out that shrooms are very helpful , it has really helps to reduce anxiety and depression . I would love to try magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some , Is there any realiable source I can purchase one
I was having this constant , unbearable anxiety because of stress. Not until I also came across Dr.Mile a very intelligent mycologist. He came through for me with his knowledge on psychs.
I’m feeling the same way too. I put too much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety level. I am so glad to be part of this community.
I do microdose on shrooms and other psychedelics and I can say it has improved my daily attitude. I'm more focused and feeling less trauma. I don't do it just for the trips, take a mini dose to ease my brain receptors. I can confirm that I have had some of the most profound mind bending experiences a human can have in their lives.
I love this video! Sanitised conversations about drugs is something missing from my upbringing. Glad the information is getting more clear and widespread
I'm fairly certain most of the bad after effects people get from MDMA, like awful comedowns, Tuesday blues etc. are from the impurities. Once had access to pure high grade MDMA in the 90's and it was a totally different experience from the usual stuff I could get, no awful comedowns, no bad week days. The main effect was also much nicer and very therapeutic. After I used it for about six weekends in a row I was fine, it just got less and less effective each weekend. Like to see some trials with lab grade stuff testing to see what after effects people got over a number of weeks.
With the purer stuff in the 80s, the come down was just heartbreaking. "I love you so much and...oh no...I'm coming down!" A friend took the same dose as his buddies, but he had to go to hospital for huge serotonin loss. He still takes zoloft to mitigate the mdma effect.
Thank you for making this video. I am still on this earth today because of psychedelics. I urge everyone to keep an open mind and encourage the scientific research, that is making a comeback, for its usage in a clinical setting as a treatment for mental health struggles. They are transformative and truly do work.
It works for some. Others have bad trips and accidentally injure themselves and others comit suicide to get away from the devils and the little green men in the attic. Some just Roll down a mountain for fun, laughing all the way yet breaking bones. And some try to drive
@@richiebricker Fair point, which is why encouraging scientific is important. As @vitokun3104 said, set and setting is key (you could also look at it as environment and intentions). I consider myself fairly experienced and prepare myself appropriately prior to each experience. Having said that, I truly believe that this needs to be prescribed and facilitated my medical/psychiatric professionals if it were to become legal.
The portion about rewiring your brain rings so true to me! I honestly wouldn’t call mdma a psychedelic, because I’d never try anything that would make me see things, but I tried it once at a party and having all my serotonin poured out at once at a party I was dragged to was really quite formative. I went to that party scared of any and all social interaction and left as a person who actually can derive happiness from social interaction. How many years of therapy would that take without chemical help?
Psychedelics don't really make you see things, they aren't hallucinogens. I mean, it is possible with high doses to see things that aren't there but when you would normally take them, it doesn't work like that. You just see the world in a different type of way like you see it with some kind of filter and things move. It's because your brain is working overtime you can see your thoughts, but you don't actually see them. It's really hard to explain to someone who doesn't know what you're talking about. But besides that, you can most definitely start seeing shit with mdma too. Mdma can most definitely be a psychedelic experience. When you've taken a lot of mdma it's also like thinking you're seeing something but not actually seeing something, just because you are in a wild state of mind. A friend of mine once went outside on mdma at a party to take a piss. He was pissing against a tree and he thought he saw a themepark character just standing there, but not like in a scary way or anything. But it wasn't like he actually saw the guy standing there, it's like when you think you see something in the corner of your eye when you're sober, but when you look back it isn't there. Sometimes when you're tripping hard on some psychedelic substance, you can actually see the things you think you see. It's because the filter you get on your sight from tripping and things moving, being cranked up to the extreme, which makes your vision so wild that even though you can see what's originally supposed to be there in your line of sight, it looks like something else. Things morph into other things which makes it possible to actually see things that aren't there. But this isn't something that happens when you want to try a substance and you just take a light dose. The inventor of lsd actually accidentally gave himself such a high dose that he had no more normal vision. His sight was so distorted because he took like a 1000 times the normal dose (yes this is possible because you can't die from lsd alone) and he just saw things that weren't there to see to begin with. He was technically blind because to him it was like he was peeking into another universe or something. I hope you learned something from my explanation and I'm glad to clear things up. By the way: the different mindset you get from mdma or magic mushrooms or other psychedelics is the biggest thing about the experience. I get that if you normally hate social interactions, that it is really weird but really amazing that you can have such a great time when you're on mdma. It has a great effect on you and even when you're sober again, you learn things about yourself and life from the experience itself. I really hope you've taken some things from your mdma experience to cherish that maybe give you a more positive outlook on things. Besides that, I think you would also really enjoy something like 2cb or magic truffles sometime in your life. It's a great experience and not that extreme like you would first think it to be
What you “see “or the visuals you get from psychedelics are by far is the least intimidating part of them. What you should be scared of is boundary dissolution and hardline introspection and being held accountable for all your life junk. If anything the visuals are what keep a lot of it positive.
Psychedelics is the answer to most severe anxiety and depression. The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself 😊
Would love to see you and the psychiatrist Dr K from HealthyGamer talk about this. He's talked about this on stream and in video format and understands the difference between therapeutic and recreational use.
Except Dr K is not really a good voice for science-based content like this. He has "an evidence-based background in Ayurvedic mental health"and "He began studying alternative therapies including yoga, meditation, and REIKI". Look up Ayurvedic and Reiki, this is not scientific, this is pseudo-science, he has the right to believe in them but you shouldn't put him on a piedestal on scientific subjects because some of his very important beliefs (the ones he uses to try to heal people) are not scientific at all. Ho yeah and also he has a full pyramidal coach thing going on...
Ok so speaking as a person who suffers from schizoaffective disorder and I feel like she kinda just jumped over psychosis really quickly and I want to try and spread awareness on what that means and the possible risks involved with taking a psychedelic.(Disclaimer I am not a psychiatrist I am working on it and right now this is my main area of expertise just based on experience with my disorder and with programs dealing with the family of disorders) So first off is how psychotic episodes and psychosis are onset. The way I’ve been taught about it is that your likely hood to get psychosis is like a bucket it gets filled by trauma and distress, negative emotions, once that bucket overflows is when we get psychosis. Some people are more likely to get psychosis and they start with some stuff in their bucket like family history of psychosis and brain injuries. The way I understand it is that psychedelics are a change in the brain that can cause more stuff to be put into the bucket that can fill you over the edge and onset psychosis which can last from a week to a month to your whole life. Drug induced psychosis is a whole thing and I feel like it deserves more than just a short sentence because it’s not fun it’s really scary. I also think that it scares me how little the general population know about psychosis, it isn’t all about schizophrenia it’s a spectrum like other mental illnesses and I would love to see her do a whole episode on it just so more people can understand it although I’m not sure if it fits her style. Sorry for such a long comment I just feel that people should understand the risks at play when you take a psychedelic and to try and help educate on something that is a part of me. Ask me questions if you have them.
Great explanation. I know of almost no one who had a psychotic break with their first trip, but many who eventually had one after enough trips. The trauma is very real. I had nightmares for years before feeling like I had fully healed.
@@fins59 Basically she didn’t say much about psychosis but it’s like a bucket it gets filled up and when it overflows you get psychosis psychedelics can contribute to that. Hope that helps.
Girl, i know you prolly hear it all the time but you are just so beautiful and smart and talented. Thank you for sharing your greatness with all of us!
A little fear is good. Psychedelic experiences are about submission, not conquest and they’re feminine and penetrating. Overconfidence or casual/recreational or leisurely attitudes going in is what’s worse.
@@kylecarter1599 I know but the respect and reverence should be essentially boundless. The fear should be minimal but probably still there if your methodologies and dosing are sufficient. Good or bad, heavyweight psychedelics like LSD, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Ayahuasca, and Ibogaine are still formidable even when they're a blast. But something like Ibogaine supposedly never being a blast, or even tolerable during most of it. And Ayahuasca is so unpredictable. And with LSD, synchronicity goes so mad that the environment has to be so controlled but even this seems impossible to eliminate, only tune down and mitigate. Like you will look at the clock to see just randomly what time it is and it will not only be exactly midnight, not only exactly a start of a new week, but even a new month. Or storms will come out of nowhere, or unforgettable encounters with the weirdest people you've ever met or will ever meet in the weirdest situations and you just become all surreally twisted-out. That’s my theory on Acid at least. Regardless of psychedelics amazingly strong transducing of synchronistic phenomena even in the physical world, especially LSD. In many ways the emotio-cognitively, 'walking on egg-shells', hyperdimensional, meta-moralistic vulnerability-floodgates of the numinous tryptamine (especially base-tryptamine) compounds make almost even the extreme passivity of Nightshade-Datura related states seem preferable. When you get into high/strong dose areas of even oral hashish, let alone Ibogaine or Datura, Brugmansia, etc. You get into ascetic territory. Ordeal; a classic ascetic theme. Self-mortification for anthropic dignity. And this is a big thing with ayahuasca too; is not only purging but 'pain'. The "drama and pain" and nobility of life and death, social tension and struggle, health and disease, the Earth, animals and plants, etc. And psilocybin counters this theme of pain with ayahuasca with its own archetype of fear. Of unnerving, dark, jaw-dropping, uncannily creepy, emotional repulsion to the darkly ambiguous and emotionally shuddering, madhouse implicative psychological sensations of horrifying *unknowingness* or even abject terror and emotive fright. At least when invited that is. Especially with the psilocybe semilanceata species supposedly. Fresh (as in non-dried) psilocybe cubensis always made me feel more heavy and gave sort of a stronger, more self-exploratory experience. And I find psilocybin overall; to usually instead be pretty extrospective and outer-space oriented which is interesting because all of the others seem to have mostly, or even exclusively (such as mescaline) terrestrial motifs whereas the psilocybe mushrooms give off this whole.. idiosyncratic, quirky, zany, Irish, eerie, Mag Mell, elfin/fae, gnomic vibe but also blended and overlapping (or even predominated) by this really unconventional, kind of futuristic, galactarian, sci-fi, dramatic, Wagnerian, hortatory, species-based, destiny-based, humanitarian, transdimensionally tele-communicational, extraterrestrial, bio-technical life-force that is some kind of high-throughput, information and 'teaching' system that is more focused on knowledge and learning than ‘healing'. And it's so esoterically functional, overtly theologically and epistemically-charged, and with such preeminence, that I think we now quite visibly deserve a new spiritual signifier for the classical, (semi-lost) Western Esotericism tradition so as to make these epistemological and/or spiritual disciplines more focal and central in the western mind and culture. And just something to replace the idealist, neo-Tibetan, LSD/Cannabis-based, hippie-esque, New-Age movement and the 'Eastern mysticism' tropes or Huxley-esque echoes of the late 1960s and early 70s that still dominate much of the psychedelic and entheogenic world still. Right now we're heading back into the psychotherapeutic induction of these things and while they certainly are therapeutic in unparalleled ways and at many levels, they also are higher-dimensional mathematical operands perturbing (or retracting back) your conscious subjective state of awareness into higher mathematical spatial topological areas. In other words; math's way of saying "higher reality". This of course not at all being unusual for an information system with conductive nodes and wiring and semiconductors all running on electromagnetism; which is our brains and neural networks. That's also digital computers. Well we do this higher computational spatial-dimension stuff with normal digital computers all the time. It doesn't explain the phenomena of subjectivity, but it does shed light on the mere mathematical modalities of the apparent controversial topic or headline of "higher-dimensional perception", because it's just a functional operation in mathematical topology. A precise, molecularly-structured specific surface-binding, agnostic action affecting the conductivity of certain associated synapses resulting in a Euclidian manifold-related quantum-field phenomena. The same type of quantum-mathematical phenomena as those observed experimentally, and even just mundanely with computers, as well as with the regular functionalities or interactions happening at the nanoscale or subatomic (especially electron-level) scale in general; which these neuronal "drug" activities are occurring at in the first place. As far as I'm concerned, the mind is not a physical extension of the cells, atoms or particles in the cytoarchitectural recesses, but rather an electromagnetic radio waveform traversing from a higher-spatial source simply down into three-dimensional biogenic, organic nervous tissue; so that such an entity living in three-dimensional mathematical planes of existence can therefore experience itself through sentience. Well, like an information system with computational 'qualities', the electrical activity of cell-surface neuronal phenomena interfacing with the drug molecules at the bond site seems to inadvertently create a mathematic and computational operation. And in that higher, mathematical, topological space or manifold; you meet non-personally conscious nor unconsciously-related, but rather separate, higher intelligences or beings. And you are simultaneously bombarded with all kinds of other effects and feelings of course. But the 'thing' always has these strong intentional tones and harshly anti-reductive messages about metaphysics and this reflection on ‘magic’ and Otherness. And a simian-concentrated strong sense of epistemic humility in psilocybin’s case. Then there's the reoccurring, thematic, archetypal, motif-like nature of the trip that is sort of forefront, but also somewhat in the background; like the things I mentioned earlier about psilocybin or a bit with ayahuasca. But so they are a shamanic function. Arguably a divinatory one. We wont understand this stuff with just secular, non-scenic or non-phenomenologically proximate interventions, or even dissecting of the anterior cingular cortex. Probably wont at least be until fully-realized quantum computing comes around that such temporally polynomial-destroying formulas for consciousness and its quantum-prone, electrodynamic, mathematical-spatially-spastic abilities are finally computed and accepted. And/or insight into the mechanistic dynamics of how the bonding of these drug molecules really work, or what these plants, fungi, lichen or even oozy toad-secretions within the biome are actually trying to tell us. When you meet enough psychonauts/travelers and discern the archetypes, it becomes more or less apparent, albeit still open-ended what the “messaging” is all about. I'm not sure if we can contemporarily, as Westerners however; come to accept the 'message' of say, the antimuscarinic Nightshades like Datura in the way the West did in Ancient Greece, during Mycenaean and Hellenistic times. Not necessarily at the mystery rites at Eleusis (Elefsina); but certainly with the Maenads of Thrace, as well as the Delphic Oracle of Apollo. Maybe we can't socioculturally afford the maenadic, Occult-like, chthonic, witchy, sacral, dementing, lunar, bloody, morbid, malicious, herbalist, superstitious and empowering message imparted by the tropane-containing nightshade entheogens such as datura. Even though their conveyed theme of 'empowerment' seems to be yet again, geared in the way of the feminine. These things bizarrely enough, seem to actually have 'target demographics'. So maybe we can’t handle Sanderson Sister-types, or even “Rose the Hat”-types. But *surely* we can't be so chicken-shit these days, as moderns that we somehow can't embrace a realist, refined, meta-Hellenism/Mycenaean, culturally distinguished, esoteric but still spiritual and dignified form or hybrid-ontology of psychedelic, ritual plant-shamanism. Or at least a "biogenic shamanism/esotericism." But either way; theology, or ritual or merely tradition through nature, not scripture. And also not through 17th-century, dogmatic, purely faith-driven, Cartesian materialism/physicalism. Which is practically just another ideologically-unwavering religion posing as "philosophy". Such cultish philosophies have nothing to do with science, yet it's co-opted many or most of its authorities to the point of befuddlement and regression. The only method, the only *thing* that will be there when you strip it all away (the societies, architecture, culture, literature, worldvews) is going to be nature.
I've been a lifelong advocate for cannabis and psilocybin to be legal in the US like it was not long ago.... I quit buying recreational cannabis off the street because people in PA like putting Fentanyl or Carfentanil in stuff either to kill people or make it seem stronger, so this would be a dream for me to get legal psilocybin alongside of recreational cannabis. 😊❤❤❤
I will never forget my first breakthrough experience with DMT. It cannot really be described with words because in this state of consciousness the concept of language does not exist. It is also not possible to imagine these many dimensions because our ability to imagine in everyday consciousness is limited to 3 dimensions. I'll try to describe my experience as best I can. I smoked 50mg of DMT. I flew through a multi-dimensional fractal tunnel at the speed of light and as I did, my ego dissolved more and more. At that moment I thought I was about to die. I had already “forgotten” about the DMT. Then, from one moment to the next, my ego completely disappeared and I was “there.” It somehow felt like I had just woken up and my entire life, including my ego, had just been a dream that would immediately fade. It felt totally familiar and like I had always been “there.” I had absolutely no thoughts in this state of consciousness. I let everything happen without judging anything. I was everything and nothing at the same time. I was one with the universe. I was the universe. Absolute nonduality. Just pure being. While I was in this multi-dimensional "space" and "saw" highly complex, constantly changing fractals in all dimensions, I simultaneously looked right into the face of God. And then, in the final twist, I realized it's a mirror. Eventually, I slowly came back into my body and ego and couldn't believe what I had just experienced. This completely changed my idea of God. Before this experience I was an atheist. That was the most profound experience of my life.
I found your channel yesterday, and your vids are so insightful and informative. Especially when it comes to NFT, AI, and new tech in general. I've had many questions about these topics but it was always pushed to the back of my mind due to the amount of people saying it's bad, it's gonna take away our jobs, it's dumb, etc especially when I got too scared to asked questions cuz I didn't want ppl to think I'm bad too. I can't thank you enough for being so open minded and welcoming to differing opinions as well as answering complex questions in a way the average person can understand. I hope my understanding of a lot of things continue to grow & Tysmmm for this channel and yourself
na. I giggled pretty hard. Thank you so much for being SUPER thorough with citations and just generally laying out so much knowledge in such a coherent way. You reminded me to subscribe also because apparently I forgot to on the last 2 or 3 I watched so thanks for the reminder.
And who are you and who would you be. We need studies on that as well. Feeling good about yourself and actually being in a good place in life are two different things.
I’ve been depressed and suicidal my whole life. I almost killed myself at eight, and recently I have started ketamine. And although I’m not out of my depression I feel hundreds of times better. I think its important and revolutionary.
I really appreciate the nuance. Treating this stuff as a medical drug is going to give better results than either taking it willy-nilly or completely shutting it down.
I have complex PTSD and over a decade of traditional therapy did nothing for me. EMDR helped some, but it was also too destabilizing when it came to trying to work through my heavier traumas, and so I had to stop to avoid getting retrauamtized. I suspect I would benefit greatly from MDMA assisted therapy, as the main struggle for me is getting my nervous system into a regulated state where I'm able to feel safe, particularly when I'm around other people. It's that nervous system regulation and sense of safety that allows traumatic memories to be reprocessed, so if you can't access that, you get stuck unable to process the trauma, and continually subjected to reliving it every time you're triggered. My best hope for now is getting into a clinical trial for MDMA, but I'm not in the US, and I don't know if it will actually happen, as the study I was hoping to get into which was supposed to be recruiting this year disappeared off the list of studies, so I don't know if it was canceled or what. All I can do is hope and keep trying everything under the sun. This condition is so debilitating, and so so hard to treat. The sooner we can get effective treatments the better.
Sounds like you started at step 3 when 1 & 2 might be a big help (at least they’ve helped me). Andrew Huberman is a brain/nervous system scientist & tenured prof who has a YT channel independent of university restrictions on evolving matters like the transition underway from the drug war to helping folks. His videos cover basic brain-body stuff like - - no detectable brain evolution has taken place in the short 10k yrs of humans’ plantation agriculture (our brains evolved entirely when we lived in nature; physical danger was as critical as eating & surviving the elements); - stabilizing my circa-dian (around a day) rhythm (amazing story of colors, time of day, and how they affect the different eye-brain pathways that sync our sleep-wake patterns to nature’s rhythm); - understanding the brain-gut connection, the importance of a healthy gut biome to avoid immune system dysfunction (eg, get of all refined sugars & not eating SAD, the “standard American diet”); - and understanding each half of our nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system that chemically handles danger thru release of eg, cortisol, and tends to over-react to civilizational stresses, and the parasympathetic nervous system that enables meditation, daydreaming & “chilling-out”; and - developing the recognition skills that let us avoid dys-regulation of our emotions. (I don’t mean this to be a lecture; it’s writing practice & a way of putting into writing what I hear & see to better understand new ideas.) I became motivated to write here by your describing how your had to stop therapy when encountering heavier traumas. In the process of learning some fundamentals as I’ve described above, I ended up getting a lot more benefit from therapy as I work on it w/ a healthier body-mind that’s given me confidence to talk about some things I’d been avoiding before. After some screen-shots & subscribing, I’m done for now. Good luck to you. 😊
MDMA is exactly what you’re looking for. It breaks all barriers of communication down and allows love to flow through yourself. It might be worth just finding some and doing it in a way that you would see in a clinic. There would not be much difference in the feeling, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise
This was a nice, well-balanced video on an over-hyped topic. I appreciate your critical thinking. It would be good for you to update this video given the recent rejection of Lykos' proposal to use MDMA for PTSD. There were serious problems with the data.
I would also like to say that compared to the modalities currently available for many of these disorders, Psychedelics comparatively are: 1) Cheaper 2) Safer 3) More reliably effective in a shorter time span 4) have longer-lasting effects (Mushrooms show antidepressant effects for up to 6mos.) In the case of major depression in particular, the science on SSRIs isn't really necessarily all that much more solid than what you mentioned in the video. The current hypothesis for their actual functioning is linked to neurogenesis but it is still entirely theoretical. (The horrible pop-psychology lie that levels of dopamine/serotonin are linked to depressive states is totally bunk from that simplistic of a level. These chemicals play a part but scientists do not know exactly why. There is no "normal" dopamine level per person.) On top of that, these drugs take up to 4-6 weeks to work and often require a balancing drug of a different kind to ensure that the patient functions. The drugs also have marked side effects when coming onto them and marked side effects when withdrawing from them (ironically, increased suicidality in both cases). I hate to be that hippie, but the fact that SSRIs are prescribed at the scale they are and are treated as well-researched healing modalities when they are anything but is one of the great tragedies of the war on drugs. Walking outside for 20-30minutes a day has the same efficacy as Prozac. Just saying. (Not advocating them for patients with clear demonstrated histories of mental disorders as well but that goes without saying).
@@pranavid Look into microbiome for autism in kids, or brain damage from WAY to much adjuvants acquired with vaccines (maybe Lions mane can help with that, as I would be scared to give psychedelics to a kid, god knows what will happen).
Absolutely outstanding little documentary put together here Cleo. I hope that we get to a place with psychedelics where we can choose our own set and setting after having bought it from a dispensary (cause the amounts are reliable).
This is so scary to me as ive just spent the past two years in PTSD therapy after my NHS surgeons put me in a coma after my 9th big surgery whilst pumping me full of ketamine. I spent a week in absolute terror seeing and hearing things that i pray were hallucinations 😢 i would rather suffer the horiffic physical pain than the tourture of being immobile and being mentally abused.
*Psychedelic definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PTSTD,ADDICTION,TRAUMA AND DEPRESSION ETC.The experience gave me freedom.I was Able to get shrooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to my location without hassel*
I’m 20 and have MDD (Major Depressive Disorder) I’ve only taken mushrooms twice but it definitely made me feel better about life and my overall happiness. Still want to take psilocybin with a registered therapist to help treat some of the traumas I’ve been through and fix my overall perception of life! Thanks for this video! Helps me stay positive about the future and hoping the government of Canada legalized it and starts researching to help fix my wack ass brain!
I am so glad I discovered this channel. The topics, quality of research and content, and production is unmatched. Maybe my new favofite channel on RUclips.
Mushroom completely turned my life around and my anxiety and panic attack disappeared and my personality changed into a much more generous loving person
I don't know anyone in my vast network of friends that isn't struggling on some level, mitigated by moments of joy, be it concerts or any other forms of group entertainment, intimate moments, etc...on their own, always a struggle ESPECIALLY post COVID. I have no doubt it would help many reset their perception of themselves and the world around them. PS: Music for Psychedelic Therapy by Jon Hopkins is a beautiful trip. PPS: Important work you're doing here Cleo!
I battled with depression, anxiety & C-PTSD. I do hear that shroom cures depression. Wish doctors could be more open to nature medicine over big pharmacy but we know why though
Psychedelics dissolved 10years of my depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in 10 minutes for me. When I opened my eyes I came back as a different me. All trauma has been dissolved before my very eyes. I understood what love and understanding truly meant and 9 months on, I've never experienced any of the depression and anxiety that plagued my existence beforehand. I saw every path that everyone had ever taken and why. It is the most profound experience of my life. Just my experience.
Psychedelics shrooms tend to fix problems at their core, unlike modern medicine which tries to fix the symptoms. This is why psychedelics work great for depression and addiction.
I realized too that psychedelics are also known to cause out of body experiences altered perception of time, ego dissolution, complete detachment from reality and entities at high doses.
Good video, I appreciate your scientific litteracy! It's cool watching this research unfold. I'm in grad school for clinical counseling and trying to evaluate whether I might want to assist in guiding trips as a part of my future practice. Just finished reading the 'Studying Harms Is Key to Improving Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy-Participants Call for Changes to Research Landscape' article -- thank you for the citation!
I've been watching your videos for some time and now I've finally subscribed. I was a little disappointed in that there was no mention of Ibogaine. But, nobody's perfect. Keep up the good work, it's a noble struggle, and yes, the struggle is real ;)
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s so hard to source here
Loved this. I battle from depression, anxiety and C-PTSD. I’ve heard shrooms cured depression. Wished doctors were more open to natural medicines over Bîg pharmaceuticals but we know why
This is a game changer for people like me suffering from severe depression (major depressive disorder), anxiety, and PTSD. I take 6 or 7 different meds that can affect the liver and kidneys to "treat" my conditions. I say "treat" because they don't really make much of a difference. I can't wait for more testing to be done so I can maybe find a safer and more effective way to treat my psych conditions.
It's been used for thousands of years. I really don't think you should wait for more testing. There are legal treatment centers in Colorado, Oregon, Mexico, Jamaica, Netherlands
Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by
When you've experienced psilocybin, the visions, the feeling that others feel, become really relatable and real. But when you haven't, it could sound very weird and wrong.
The good thing about LSD is its non addictive, the best experience l've EVER had on ANY drug was LSD, I've been so happy my face literally hurt from smiling so much for so many hours,
I can't find a source anywhere for any good psychedelics in my area, I suffer some pretty bad depression and i got a chance to try K and man it was a miracle substance, I felt free,the only high or euphoria was from the relief of my vices being released, that's exactly what it did
Mushroom completely turned my life around and my anxiety and panic attack disappeared and my personality changed into a much more generous loving person
Psychedelics changed my life. I have never struggled with depression the way I used to after my first experience, and for about a year to two years afterwards my social and general anxiety decreases so heavily!!! It was absolutely eye opening and wonderful. It definitely helped me become a better person, in general. (It didn’t help my spelling abilities though)
As someone who has had direct experience, I wouldn't recommend psychedelics be used recreationally, but I would recommend them be used therapeutically. I was in a very dark phase of my life when I tried them, and they changed my life. Reconnecting to the Oneness of everything experientially is more powerful than you could ever imagine. However, for recreation, it can be a disaster in the wrong set and setting. It should be used as medicine only. Edited to add: I actually prefer to call them "entheogens", because the meaning of that word is more closely related to the experience of these drugs, and it is "generating the divine within". Once you've had a heroic dose of psilocybin, you'll know what that means to the depth of your core.
Def don't take this stuff on your own if you're not in the right headspace. Clinically, sure, you'll have professionals on standby to assist you with your journey. I tried self medicating with LSD and then ibogaine when I was in a deep depression. It did not help me at all, and it was terrifying. And I have a lot of experience with LSD.
There were some studies conducted which would change your brain to make u more happy. Like with cancer survivors, they were not stressed with their check ups (if or not the cancer came back). A lot of therapy sessions before tl prepare mentally and emotionally the person. U gotta be in the mood of feeling good to feel good. I ain't no professional but the subject interests me
@@37Kilo2 Yes, a proper set and setting is absolutely essential, and an experienced trip sitter is very important. They can be taken if in depression (that's kind of the point of some of these studies), but it has to be done in the right set and setting on a day that the depression is subdued, and the person has to know how to surrender and how to handle certain parts of the trip. Good trip sitters can help with all those things.
I don't understand how people use psychedelics recreationally, it's intense and revealing, not pleasurable or fun. Maybe they use a low dose, I haven't had a low dose.
I’ll never forget my first time mushrooms a couple months ago and it was such a beautiful experience. It’s a game changer for severe depression and anxiety……Peace! Truly one of the most remarkable phenomenons on the planet
I live in NY and have no idea if dr.elvisperry postt?
Same for me. I was not expecting something so beautiful and soothing
Wish everyone on earth could experience these, people would be much kinder to others and themselves
Since I tired psychedelics for the first time, I’ve been trying to describe the experience to others so there can try it as well, but i couldn’t find the right words to describe it.
Did you do it alone? Like do you really need to have a tripsitter?
I have stage 4 cancer, and I have legally used psychedelic therapy to treat my end of life anxiety. (I'm the first Canadian to legally do this) I've had some extremely good results from this treatment, and I can personally verify that it is usually effective for about 6 months for me.
Thanks for helping to get good information out that might aid others who are struggling.
This.
If people are gaining relief from the the pains of life, why would we deny people that?
Thomas, I hope for you the best of days as you fight through this. Whatever you need to fight this and get some relief you get it. God bless you.
@@phil4986 thanks, that's kind of you to say.
@@borisj I know, I know….
But it’s not all bad here. I think we have some really lovely parks!
Where is the harm in letting the terminally ill live pain free.
DONT DO PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS IF YOU ARE NOT READY!!! I don’t know how to stress this enough, if you are anxious at all before you trip it is best not to take the risk, you need to know what you are going to do while you are tripping before you begin your trip (your going to forget but it’s good to have a game plan if you get bored or start having a bad trip), and always have a trip sitter. Only take about 100 micrograms or 1 tab of acid at the most for your first time and it would probably be better if you did less. If your doing shrooms start with 1-1.5 grams. Normally if you want a true psychedelic experience on shrooms people say take 3.5 grams. DO NOT TAKE A FULL DOSE UNTIL YOU HAVE ALREADY TRIED THE PSYCHEDELIC I cannot stress this enough. You are not ready for it. Start slow follow those rules and I promise you will have a good time.
It was the opposite for me. I had no idea what I was getting into, took 7gs with some friends and I was transported into another realm. It felt like i was there for a long long time. But it was also great because I had no idea what I was getting into. Now that I know a lot about them, I just freak out every time. But not everyone will have the same experience I did. Being with good friends probably saved me from freaking out
This is 100% true. But also, having someone there to trip sit you makes a HUGE difference. I remember, me and a couple of my friends did acid for the first time not knowing how it was, and the first 2-3 hours were good, we were watching cool videos and having a laugh but then we got bored and everyone just went back home, and then it got dark for me. On the other hand, I was trip sitting my friend who was doing acid for the first time and he had an AMAZING experience. He still talks about it to this day lmao 😂. His entire trip was amazing because I was there with him making sure no negative energy could ruin his trip. Because once a bad vide or a bad thought is brought up or thought about while doing psychedelics, it’s almost impossible to make your mind stop racing about the topic. So, I made sure he and I were in a good mood the entire time. I agreed with everything he was saying and kinda just kept a chill vibe. It was great, but I wish someone was there to do that for me. That is very important.
@@AcenDurran having a trip sitter is often the determining factor of if your gonna have a bad trip or not, especially if they’re tripping with you 👍
Listen to this guy he knows what he's saying ^^
Amen
Exploring psilocybin was a profound journey for me, it was the beginning of my path towards healing after years of battling heroin addiction. I'm 3 years clean now and i must tell you, the experience was incredibly therapeutic. It felt like a gentle unraveling of the knots in my mind, lifting the heavy fog of depression and anxiety that had plagued me for so long.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire article about psychedelics. They saved you from death bud, lets be honest.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? 🙏
Doctor.jeremyy is the person you want. He's the most knowledgeable about psychedelics that I know.
On instgram ??
Yes
My parents have both done therapy sessions involving psychedelics. My dad used to be constantly angry and snapping at everyone if you don't do exactly what was said right away and mom has progressively gotten afraid of her own shadow. After the sessions, I told my dad for the first time I'm taking a break from school. I fully expected retaliation and him to make me suffer. What I got instead, was advice on how to handle my mental health and not give up on school. He's pushing me to go to therapy and my whole family to get the help we need. It isn't a miracle drug. The drug is not what made this change. However, it helped him get new incites in to what we're feeling, how he feels about everything amd everyone, and how he chooses to see the world. Mom just had her first session but she's making small strides to betterment. I feel like I lost my family a long time ago and now I feel like I'm getting them back again. It's truly a time to be alive.
My ex step-mom is a narcissist, and doing psychedelics twice, made her legit get to her senses both times. She was so genuinely shocked and apologetic about her behavior, is like for the first time ever she was present and we could talk to her and be listened, she wasn’t on an eternal monologue anymore… then it wears off and is like her defense mechanism returns, and she’s not focusing her eyes on you anymore, back at living an alternative life where she’s the main character and we’re just part of her storyline, always trying to screw her up and take her shine and that’s why she’s always so unhappy..
I want more than anything for narcissism to be cured somehow, and maybe this may be one step to the solution if one is ever possible…
@@kora4185 - tell her do it some more, it can release repressions, etc.
spi wrote, _"It isn't a miracle drug. The drug is not what made this change. However, it helped him get new incites in to what we're feeling, how he feels about everything amd everyone, and how he chooses to see the world."_
So, before taking the drug, he was volatile and abusive. After taking the drug, he's calm and more of a counselor. But, you say that _"the drug is not what made this change."_ What better explanation do you have for his abrupt changes for the better?
insights
@@RichardHarlos Yeah it's such BS when people say "it's not the drugs, it's drugs+paying someone to help" because I've done both separately, and believe me when I say therapy did nothing to cure my fear of death but drugs did.
Psychedelic therapy is just one of those great leaps in the mental health space. It’s wonderful and the fact they serve recreational use and health as well.
You know a lot of people talk about the benefits of psychedelics but nobody talks of where to source em, any reliable source?
Sure, dr_xzavier his your guy for anything psychedelics.
How do I contact him, is he on inst?
Yea, his dr_xzavier!!!
Can dr_xzavier send across to me here in Manchester?
Phsychedelics helped me quit illicit pills addiction, I was messed up I was depressed and a danger to myself. Good videos and help like this should be seen always.
dr.blake, he's the best and reliable source for everything psychedelics.
Is he instgram?
Sure, dr.blakee
It’s wild, everyone’s feel of shrooms is different though
dr.blakee is amazing, I wish there are more good doctors like him who sell and administer good stuff.
Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, I would like to give them a try but haven't found anyone that deals on them
@@Victoria-lx3qj how can I get in touch with him
@@Victoria-lx3qj is there a way to contact him
@@Victoria-lx3qjdoes he move it for you ?
Shrooms was the best trip I had. It was an amazing experience.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporesss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
The Trips I've been having have really helped me a lot,I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
Is he on inst?
Yes he is. dr.sporesss
Psychedelics have the potential to make a significant impact on mental health issues like anxiety and depression. They've been incredibly helpful for me personally.
I've been wanting to give it a go, but I'm struggling to find a reliable source.
dr.scottshroom is your guy. The best shrooms and psychedelics guy I know.
How do I reach out to him? He on instgram??
Yes
I tried golden teachers for the first time, and it was an amazing experience.
Psychedelic mushrooms really healed me years back.
These are great healing compounds! When used in proper context.
I've been looking to try some recently, but I can't find anywhere to get them, anyone?
Is on Instgram?
Yessss
I just had my first experience with golden teachers, it was really great! I loved it.
Can doc.jeanne post to me in France?
Ayahuasca was mind blowing for me. I found myself in a world where swirling colors created a mesmerizing kaleidoscope. Time stretched as I explored cosmic landscapes, feeling a profound connection to everything. It left me with a deep sense of peace and wonder, realizing the limitless potential of the mind.
Psychedelics have the ability to induce profound altered states of consciousness 0:07
I've been looking to try shrooms. Can someone direct me to a source?
0:51 @@HummersCatherinadr.johnsonshrooo is the person you want. He's the most knowledgeable about
psychedelics that I know.
He's on instgram?? 0:02
@@HeJfjdjHeheYes, dude is excellent 0:06
I would love to see your research, writing, and filming process. You're an amazing journalist.
Yes 🙌
Definitely an amazing inspiration !!
Love your content 💕🙂
what you are really doing right now is what the hippies did back then. what psychedellics, and its promotion, really does, is allows you to plant more chaos in news and events. you really even just lets the door open in your video, just exactly for this. (by you i mean the entire channel and its supporters. you are just a hippie actor, like all actors.) which is what you are really after, and what the hippies were after, in the past. for people like you and hippies, its liberating. and over 80% of the world populace is actually like this. so, there is no problem with promoting widespread psychedellics, legally, as 80% of the goverment is yours the world over. the issue hoever is, you goal is to generate fear. and the possibility that psychedellics could be legal soon, generates more fear, then, if psychedellics are legal and everyone already uses them.
which is why, you will never make psychedellics legal, but always make it appear that, there is a big push going on, and psychedellics will soon be legal.
its the same as, how, savegery is always appearing to be increasing, but it never really does.
unless you rebrand "psychedellics", and come up with another thing, another brand, to generate fear, you will never make psychedellics readily available.
generating fear is the real medicine of the many.
@@whatsappvideos9665 for being hippies they do raise millions of dollars for research just saying 😂🙌
@@JuanLopez-uv5tg and how do they raise these millions? cause millions of people support them. the same millions of people who vote and elect governments, and can topple them whenever they want. conduct research however they want. interpret results however they want. there is no reason why they havent legalised psychedellics yet, if they wanted, except for the reason i mentioned.
@@whatsappvideos9665 Empath has since raised $2.1 million of a $10 million target for its first fund and made 10 investments. Portfolio companies include Mindstate
Your enthusiasm about all things science is contagious. Even your ad was enthusiastic and I forgot to skip thru it.
I had been going to therapy for about 18 months to help with depressions, anxiety, anger and alcohol misuse, while only making a little progress. I took acid at a festival and then everything that I'd been trying to change just 'fell into place'. It's hard to describe but to me it felt like someone turned a key and the door I'd been pushing on for so long just flew open. Everything fell into place instantly.
wow, this is incredible 💗💗 congratulations on working towards healing!!
Convince the government they can tax this, they will make it legal overnight.
@@_Ape_ Local Government...Fed is behind on this by 20 years already.
They already know they can tax it. I think the issue is that it make people NOT be sheep. It's more difficult to control people when they have a mind of their own.
and it’s actually very hard to collect tax on stuff anyone can make and sell
@@_Ape_ The taxation of marijuana would be at a State level, so there's no incentive to legalize federally. In actual fact, the places where legalization has happened align perfectly with this narrative.
Wall Street is already on it, strangely enough capitalism and greed might be what will allow us to finally access to these medicines legally.
I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage. Got diagnosed with ADHD. Spent my whole life fighting ADHD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
No doubts shrooms are 100% blessings from nature. Indeed nature's little miracles.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Ive done shrooms last month. It taught me how severely traumatized I was from alcohol. I healed from many mental traumas from my past and was able to forgive, let go. Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I even felt more refreshed the morning after. So no hangovers. No depression mood for days. No anxiety. I now have a more calm mind.
How do I find him? Is he on instgram
Yes he's Dr.alishrooms. Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.
Nature is magical and healing. what a beautiful experience
True, mushrooms helped me in facilitating deep emotional processing and introspection.
I really need this shit to clear my head, Is there any psychedelic therapy Online
Yeah doc.coby
Is he on Instag
Yes
This is so direct and complete. You deserve the utmost recognition for what you do
She does
She's not gonna bang you, for simping in the comments..
@@cynicalPixels You sound like a Tate simp tbh.
Yea. I'm glad that she and Johnny Harris left vox (big daddy bezos).
@@cynicalPixelsI....... I don't think that's what they were going for 💀
I really appreciate not only the discussion of psychedelics but also the way the researcher characterized PTSD, depression, smoking, alcoholism as a "narrowed mental and behavioral repertoire".
I found that description to be profound in its economy of words. I think that was very validating to the experience of being stuck in one of those ruts. And the prospect of something to help blast yourself out of one is just incredible.
Try cocaine before ya try acid, it makes people run out into traffic
All of these conditions, including ADHD, CAD, CDD, ADD, and many others have to do mostly with brain chemistry and are, in their core, neurological disorders. It's the brain's hardware and chemistry in disarray, and these therapies may help rearrange these brains to proper functions.
Source: Dude, trust me. I have ADHD, diagnosed since 6 years old, and am a chronic online researcher :)
❤
what you are really doing right now is what the hippies did back then. what psychedellics, and its promotion, really does, is allows you to plant more chaos in news and events. you really even just lets the door open in your video, just exactly for this. (by you i mean the entire channel and its supporters. you are just a hippie actor, like all actors.) which is what you are really after, and what the hippies were after, in the past. for people like you and hippies, its liberating. and over 80% of the world populace is actually like this. so, there is no problem with promoting widespread psychedellics, legally, as 80% of the goverment is yours the world over. the issue hoever is, you goal is to generate fear. and the possibility that psychedellics could be legal soon, generates more fear, then, if psychedellics are legal and everyone already uses them.
which is why, you will never make psychedellics legal, but always make it appear that, there is a big push going on, and psychedellics will soon be legal.
its the same as, how, savegery is always appearing to be increasing, but it never really does.
unless you rebrand "psychedellics", and come up with another thing, another brand, to generate fear, you will never make psychedellics readily available.
generating fear is the real medicine of the many.
@@whatsappvideos9665 dawg what
Mushroom is interesting
Research shows that psilocybin mushrooms have promising results for mental health support, particularly in reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD.
Where to get em?
doctormaxshrooms is your guy, got all kinds of psychedelics.-:(
Will he be on telgrm or TikTok?
Yes, that’s his name.
I have to say, Cleo. The way that you approach subjects with an open mind, but always sceptical and truth seeking is very inspiring and great to see when sharing information like this. Keep up the good work and curiosity! I always love hearing about the topics you delve into as it is entertaining and educational. Thank you :)
truth.
I have struggled with ADD/ADHD for most of my life, and I am in my late 50's. After failed efforts of trying Ritalin and Adderall, and dealing with negative side effects of those drugs, a close friend talked me into micro-dosing LSD. In desperation, I tried it. It has completely changed my life. I am a completely different person. I kept it secret from my closest friends for almost a year, but people who had known me for years talked about how I seemed like a different person, someone who was comfortable in their own skin, relaxed, self assured, thoughtful, measured. They would always joke by saying "What ever you're taking I want some of that" and I would just smile and not tell them what had changed me lol. I fear that these types of treatment will never be legal because the corrupt pharma companies have too powerful of a lobby in Washington. Pharma companies want people to remain sick. Their worse fear would be for our population to become more healthy.
Where would you source this? I assume you’re relatively tech savvy so, online?
I wish we had nzt.
@@je6874 Nobody's gonna tell you where to source LSD in youtube comments. It's currently black market. And if you go with black market, you better know you can trust your source with your life, because some unscrupulous individuals will maybe lie about what they are selling and sell you drugs that really can and do kill people. Regulated and supervised drug use would probably result in far fewer deaths but right now there are a lot of fentanyl deaths, so be very careful with that. (Also you could go to jail in many jurisdictions; if you care about your freedom you should look at what's legal where you live.)
@@je6874 Onion
Big pharm doesn't sell cures,
only treatments.
Thank you, Cleo, for an informative and helpful video.
The '60's and '70's bracketed my young adult years. Back then, you could be offered a "toke" from a "joint"-Marijuana cigarette just by catching a ride with a friend in his car. As I matured and married, the anti-drug fervor gripped the country. A great deal of shame was doled out as parents and authority figures showed disgust towards any and all who were experimenting with Marijuana or mushrooms.
I am in my early 70's now and have been plagued by clinical depression most of my life. I have found some relief through my faith, alternative medicines, and meditation techniques.
Your videos are encouraging and helpful, pointing the way for younger generations to find relief and new tools to overcome emotional and behavioral challenges they may encounter on their life journey.
Mr_jonahmicro17G
Psychedelic therapy is just one of those great leaps in the mental health space. It’s wonderful and the fact they serve recreational use and health as well. Can’t say I don’t trip once in a while.
Psychedelics tend to fix problems at their core,unlike modern medicine which tries to fix the symptoms. This is why psychedelics work great for depression,addiction etc.
Psychedelic help a lot and they’re like a cheat sheet to life, but you could also experience the same things. Psychedelic amp tf out whilst being sober, meditation and astral projection are key.
I'm so glad we're heading in the right direction on this. I went to an ayahuasca retreat about 7 years ago. I was just curious and someone told me it really helped them figure things out. What I got was way more than I expected. I was expecting an exciting and interesting trip, but what I got was a truth about myself and my family that I had somehow buried since childhood. It not only revealed a deep truth about me and my family, but it allowed me to continue with truth in my life. Not only that, but for the first time in my life, I felt some kind of presence if you will, a higher presence that some would call religious. I felt connected to the world around me in a way I had never felt before. I will forever be grateful to that experience and wish more people could have something similar, I think it could genuinely help a lot of people in ways they don't even realize.
Agree. Thanks for sharing your story with the world♥️
(Thing is long warning) I tried it and it was a crazy experience to sum it up. I cried and screamed and my neighbors saw I think since I was in my car with my bf and that’s embarrassing me right now but I’m trying to not think of it. It made me think of a lot of things and brought things buried in me to the surface. My bf and I had talked about our relationship too and probably helped us both kind of wake up to the loop we were living in. Hopefully tomorrow morning we’ll still have the same motivation to strive for better.
Research suggests Classic psychedelics such as DMT,LSD,and psilocybin mushrooms can facilitate deep personal insights and self awareness
Foster empathy,compassion.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional discovery.they are really effective against depression,stress disorders and other mental health issues.
Microdosing psilocybin interrupted my addiction cycle ,enhancing self-awareness and emotional regulation. My story illustrates its potential as a therapeutic tool in conjunction with professional guidance and support
“darc_spores is my exceptional mycologist,highly recommended.”
“Microdosing”by The Avett Brothers- Explores benefits.
I'm glad you mentioned darc_spores my shroom expert(playfull!)
Always love the amount of enthusiasm with which you present these topics, makes it even more enjoyable too watch.
It's a trick to grab your attention, the animated hand move, grabbing the camera, talking like you are sitting in the room with them. Make no mistake cleo is not your friend.
@@pseudonym9215 someone doesn't have to be your friend to enjoy to watch them. what in the world are you talking about?
Yea, she is just cute enough to stare at, but then she geeks out details.. I really like her content, enthusiasm and clarity..
Absolutely. Her enthusiasm is infectious ❤
As a person who has social anxiety, I can see how this can really help! Imagine if you have an irrational fear of people because of your past experiences, which might not be significant to others but to you personally has become a point of trauma. What I would give to be able to reset my brain and clear it of the irrational fear I have of just so many things... Fears that I don't even understand fully why it happens, just that I feel its to do with how my brain decided to rewire itself due to past trauma. If you could hit the reset button on all that, imagine the years not wasted trying to rewire the brain, and instead just hit reset and start fresh! Quality of life improvement, hell yeah!
"...just hit reset..." is where addiction enters.
@@FunDaBounceDJpsilocybin isn't addictive, at all, they actually help break addictions
@@mattb6646It's the thought of having a "reset button" that I'm referring to. you don't have to go far to find that even a beer or a cigarrette can do that. Hit it too often and, voila! alcoholism, anyone?!
2:10 i LOVE that they upgraded the intro for this one,
honestly all the art for this episode even the thumbnail is 1 to 3 tiers up⬆️
I had very hard time having a connection with others or even myself through out my life growing up. I did not have a good empathetic skills, for anyone, even worse to myself. it's been 3 years that me with a small group of friends organise a psychedelic experience. We spend months curating psychedelic get together experience(I am so thankful that we treat psychedelic with respects and therapeutically). My life changed forever because of it. it stripped me down completely of my ego, judgements,fear, anxiety, and all the negative impulsive thoughts. For the first time I could hear myself, talk to my deepest self. For the first time I could sync with others emotionally. All and all, I truly see the value of the acts of kindness and compassion. expecially, the way that i see, think, and treat myself(forever) .... It is such a privilege for me to have experienced.
Sounds like many peoples experience with God...
Measured approach is always the way to go. Establishing widespread public policies on something that's not fully understood based on fear is wrong on so many levels. Cleo did an awesome job to articulate this: that it stifled decades of what would've been meaningful research. But better late than never. I have been dealing with anxiety my entire life and I honestly want to try psilocybin to treat this condition. I've tried everything from meditation, anti-anxiety meds, exercising, etc., but I'm still dealing with anxiety. More manageable yes, but the ever present, underlying feeling of anxiety sucks.
Anyway, great video Cleo. I honestly get inspired by how you and your team present the information.
Psilocybin is definitely worth trying! It may not cure your anxiety, but it can greatly help. LSD can also be very helpful, it's a more intense trip that can get incredibly emotional, but I've always found it beneficial. The most important thing is to remember that the hallucinations are temporary (it's good to write down the dose and the time at which you took them as a reminder), and also don't do psychedelics around strangers or people that don't approve of it, they can absolutely ruin the whole thing. Happy tripping!
Knocked it out of the park again, Cleo. ❤️❤️
Subscribed after formula E and look forward to your long-form videos every month.
Psychedelic is a good remedy for mental health.
I’m really in need of a source, how can I get them?
I’m still very new to all these, still doing some research on dosages and all.
dr.cobb_ is great, I get all my psychedelic products from him.
@@bradleygreen5109 I just looked him up, does he deliver across the states?
I just had my first experience with penis envy🍄
I discovered your podcast by accident and now I’m addicted. RUclips just keeps feeding the episodes to me, I can’t get enough. Topics and style match just right. Thank you!
I've taken esketamine treatments for a year, it was FDA approved in 2019 and you basicly go into a hospital to get it and stay there supervised for 2 hours.
People with major depression are quite cynical about treatments, since the success rates after the first couple of meds you try are nearly none existent. But what I found was that (most) people really appreciated and were grateful for the effects of this one. It's not perfect and didn't make anybody a fully functioning person again, but it's really helpful.
As far as how it feels, for me it's like meeting myself without all the negative emotions I harbored towards myself over the years. That makes room for self compassion and feeling more at ease for some days after the treatment as well.
Despite all that it's limited, and hasn't done all I've hoped it would. After a year it didn't feel as effective as it was in the beginning, but I was also in a better place(relatively) and couldn't justify the price tag and the fact that someone on the huge waiting list could benefit from it more than I was(very limited number of spots since it takes place in a hospital). But it's been so much more effective than any treatment I've received before and made me a lot more hopeful and excited for the treatments to come once they're made widely available!
Depressed people are cynical about everything, it's a core trait of depression. This is why psychedelics are so powerful in treating depression, they break up deeply rooted thought patterns and expand people's mind so they can see past their own cynicism. I don't think ketamine is nearly as effective as LSD or psilocybin though, just speaking from extensive experience.
this is amazing to hear, and i'm glad to know that it's genuinely effective in creating that space for self compassion!
Try psilocybin or LSD. Ketamine provides dissociative relief for symptoms, but other psychedelics work almost exactly opposite. They shove your face into the ground of reality and say, “are you sure about all this?” Trips for me are never easy but they do this and unlock a lot of memories and with them comes cathartic healing.
@Cubzritps
@@steinarjonsson_at least from what my therapist has told me, it’s just way easier for them to get ketamine than psilocybin or MDMA (which the clinic I go to for ketamine treatments does do but a lot less frequently). Hopefully access to things like psilocybin gets easier. Legally and for treatment I mean, I know you can just buy mushrooms online.
Your cursory analysis of psychedelic use and treatment is a good intro to those who are uninformed. This is a vast topic that requires hours and hours of research and reading. A basic understanding of chemistry goes a long way as well. Good luck to all those willing to do the work.
Maybe it seems more vast when using psychedelics?
what you are really doing right now is what the hippies did back then. what psychedellics, and its promotion, really does, is allows you to plant more chaos in news and events. you really even just lets the door open in your video, just exactly for this. (by you i mean the entire channel and its supporters. you are just a hippie actor, like all actors.) which is what you are really after, and what the hippies were after, in the past. for people like you and hippies, its liberating. and over 80% of the world populace is actually like this. so, there is no problem with promoting widespread psychedellics, legally, as 80% of the goverment is yours the world over. the issue hoever is, you goal is to generate fear. and the possibility that psychedellics could be legal soon, generates more fear, then, if psychedellics are legal and everyone already uses them.
which is why, you will never make psychedellics legal, but always make it appear that, there is a big push going on, and psychedellics will soon be legal.
its the same as, how, savegery is always appearing to be increasing, but it never really does.
unless you rebrand "psychedellics", and come up with another thing, another brand, to generate fear, you will never make psychedellics readily available.
generating fear is the real medicine of the many.
@@whatsappvideos9665 Do you smoke a lot of Marijuana? This post makes it sound like you smoke a lot of Marijuana.
Hey, currently awaiting to be admitted into a doctoral program where i hope to conduct MDMA-assisted group therapy study.
I have dedicated my life to psychedelics becoming at least medicalized. Im 40 now, it may have taken too long, but im so happy they are finally being recognized for the amazing tool they are.
Seeing the psychedelic science summit go from 1k people to 18k this year was amazing. I cant waot for the next one.
As leary put it, "it takes a generation to usltilize technologies [psychedelics] like these."
Volunteer for any recreational drug studies here .......
MDMA’s not a psychedelic.
@Ryan88881 not in the traditional sense, sure. But for most context, it's a psychedelic. It shares enough properties with psychedelics to be considered psychedelic-like in most aspects.
@@noahbodhi8657 It really shares virtually no properties except some clarity effects and the fact that it's not intoxicating in its feel (except at certain lowish doses). Or some small hints of similar visual components but you're still comparing apples to elephants at the end of the day. MDMA is ultimately just an amphetamine stimulant with a tinge of psychedelia in terms of perception, but not at all in cognition. There is no abstraction or emotional vulnerability or true crispness and exploring going on.
@@noahbodhi8657 Real psychedelics (even cannabis) have basically shamanic characteristics whereas MDMA is merely psychosocial. And even the lesser, more superficial psychedelics still have "mind-opening" qualities while MDMA is really just a modulation and uplifting stabilization in mood.
I love the positive vibe and stories. Your enthusiasm leaps off the screen. Always a pleasure to see what you are learning about next.
Phase III, placebo controlled, multicenter, double blind, clinical trial is the final step before legalization and the outcome is so important and the words used in this journal article are the most positive that I have ever heard in a medical journal as I have read 1000s and have published many of my own but Nature Med is a journal every medical researcher would love to be accepted in and my best friend is a professor of neurological surgery and he got first author in Nature Med! Wow! I was so proud of him.
But, the when the Article appeared which addressed what I have been suffering with for 10 years. I have cleared all the hurdles and am waiting for the date.
I took psilocybin a few years ago and, besides allaying my anxiety for months after, I can definitely say it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life. It completely changed my perception of the world in the most positive and profound way, and I think about the experience on a nearly daily basis. I can only hope others can experience the same journey and effects themselves.
Good segment. I'm happy that this area is moving forward. What's missing from this is mentioning that the toxicity, physiologically, of mushrooms, DMT and LSD is practically zero. Also the fact almost everybody( apart from the very few who should not go near them) can get benefits and new perspectives from taking these compounds. Not just the people who suffer from the maladies discussed above. If you are sound of mind and reasonably happy, we also should be able to take these things and have some fun and have our brains re-wired from time to time. These things are non-addictive!
Your editing is really top notch! And your journalism level is superb! Really glad to be subscribed to your channel! Thank you for your hard work. Your presentation filters through the screen! Love your work!
It's fantastic that psychedelics are finally getting some research again. As a person who has previously used psychedelics on occasion, I just cannot imagine doing mushrooms at a doctors/therapists office. It sounds so bizzare and I think that would give me a bad trip. The natural place to do psychedelics is in the woods or a nature setting, preferably with music and friends so you can laugh and explore a new world together in a more relaxed setting where you don't feel trapped or under any pressure and if it were to turn bad in your head you've got people there you know and trust to help get you back to enjoying it again.
I was thinking the exact same thing I don't think I would get anything out of a clinical setting for psychedelics.
The woods would certainly be a good setting for the experience as long as an uninvited grizzly bear or a pack of wolves don't show up to spoil the party.
You took them to party. The doses they are talking about in these settings are much more and much more potent. It’s not meant for college kids to party this is for terminally Ill patients. There’s always a shaman involved and their experiences were way beyond anything you lightly dabbled in. It has helped people whom are going to die within months no longer fear death.
There's also micro dosing which has a benefit but I think it's missing the point, if I needed serious help I'd go to mother aioaska.
I'm sure the treatment room would be conducive to a safe trip, the therapist must have some training akin to shamanism dealing with this stuff.
I did 4g alone at home first time while listening to psytrance. You see more visuals that way, I felt like a cave man boarding an UFO. I think you should be fine as long you feel safe and listening to something
The reason Nixon and schrodinger outlawed L.S.D. is the military did an experiment on a group of soldiers that had been trained to kill. After the soldiers took L.S.D. they told the military they refused to kill, would never shoot that gun again and we're dropping out the military. Nixon then realized why so many people had become enlightened and were protesting war.
I was born gay and by 10yo was very depressed. Society made me want to die. I started taking shrooms & L.S.D. at 17yo. It helped me love myself and fixed my depression. Life went on and I became consumed with work. I became depressed again. I went to doctors and tried many antidepressants that did not work. I turned to Alcohol and hermon for over 10 years living in misery. Around 10 years ago it hit me. I was never depressed when all I did was smoke weed and eat shrooms. Then I saw the studies. I ordered a shroom growing kit and started micro dosing. Life is absolutely wonderful. The last 10 years have been amazing. The only thing that matters in life is love.
I just found your videos yesterday and I love them! Science and tech are such fascinating fields that have so much to be desired in terms of discovery, so I love learning more about the advancements in both fields.
The handl ^ is a good plug for psychdelics and more...
This is such a good video. I only recently found your channel but I am in love with the content. Your videos manage to present somewhat complex and debated topics in such an easy to understand format. Also, love how you keep to the facts and make sure it's all based on science. Keep up the amazing work :)
Been doing psylocibin weekly for a year and it's cured my depression, managed my bipolar disorder to the point where my baseline off meds is better than any other point on or off meds; my anxiety has gone from regularly shaking my legs to not being able to remember the last time I had restless legs keep me up. There've been some other effects including restored hearing which helped me (as a singer) begin singing better. My ability to visualize things has skyrocketted, I calculate math using weird visuals but it allows me to do larger calculations in my head than what I could do before. I've developed better balance, I used to veer to the sides when I'd walk straight but now my body walks in a way that just feels like it makes sense and I keep better footing as a result. 7/8 would recommend
I'm a strong advocate for, "Music Festival Therapy". It's like a year worth of regular psychotherapy crammed into a long weekend.
Kinda agree. Although some people take it too far
Another great video Cleo! I love the way you objectively handle the topic. Having some experience with psychedelics in my youth, one of the biggest problems and what drives a lot of the negativity toward them, is that on the street, you don't really know what you're getting. There can be contamination. Mixing the drug with other drugs. You don't really know the dose you're taking.It's a free-for-all. And honestly some people just can't handle them. It's too strange. With regulated purity, dosing and in some cases supervision, I can see how psychedelics could be very therapeutic.
Dosing is a little tricky. I find you don't have to get "high" for long term benefits.. a 1/2" peice of stem pulled me out of deep depression like magic.. It allows your mind to rewire itself. Like defragmenting does for your hard drive ..
Been going through the huge if true playlist and A++ it is so refreshing to have an optimistic look at things
Thank you Cleo and Team for your awesome content, and for this episode! I'm excited to see where and how the medical industry is able to treat those living with the noted conditions. With many in my life dealing with these (along with myself), new treatments could be a real life changer! Science over stigma!
The handl ^ is a good plug for psychdelics, and, more,........
Cant believe its been a year since 1955 when dude took psychedelics on TV, time flies, cant wait to see what 1956 holds in store for us
it’s 2023 now, Walt
I think you're getting old.
I’m 78 😂 I get the comment, sounds like a version of, “History books?? Whata you talkin about, history books - I was there!”
you gonna synth acid next boi?
Just found this channel and I'm hooked. This is far better than anything you see on live TV nowadays. As someone who has had their perception of life changed by LSD and Mushrooms or "Shrooms", I found this video to be extremely interesting and intriguing. The episodes in general are all entertaining and now boring like some informational shows can be.
*Psychedelic definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PTSTD,ADDICTION,TRAUMA AND DEPRESSION ETC.The experience gave me freedom.I was Able to get shrooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to my location without hassel*
@TRIPCLAN
You have to remember that government would rather people suffer than admit a mistake.
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression , anxiety and illicit pill addiction . Imagine carrying heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone . Believe it or not in a couple years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues . ⠀
Psychedelic is the answer to most severe anxiety and depression ... The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself ... I used antidepressants for some years but it only made me feel like a zombie but with immediate use of mushroom in few months I feel like I'm living a whole new Life .
I have researched and found out that shrooms are very helpful , it has really helps to reduce anxiety and depression . I would love to try magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some , Is there any realiable source I can purchase one
I was having this constant , unbearable anxiety because of stress. Not until I also came across Dr.Mile a very intelligent mycologist. He came through for me with his knowledge on psychs.
I’m feeling the same way too. I put too much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety level. I am so glad to be part of this community.
I do microdose on shrooms and other psychedelics and I can say it has improved my daily attitude. I'm more focused and feeling less trauma. I don't do it just for the trips, take a mini dose to ease my brain receptors. I can confirm that I have had some of the most profound mind bending experiences a human can have in their lives.
I love this video! Sanitised conversations about drugs is something missing from my upbringing. Glad the information is getting more clear and widespread
I'm fairly certain most of the bad after effects people get from MDMA, like awful comedowns, Tuesday blues etc. are from the impurities. Once had access to pure high grade MDMA in the 90's and it was a totally different experience from the usual stuff I could get, no awful comedowns, no bad week days. The main effect was also much nicer and very therapeutic. After I used it for about six weekends in a row I was fine, it just got less and less effective each weekend. Like to see some trials with lab grade stuff testing to see what after effects people got over a number of weeks.
With the purer stuff in the 80s, the come down was just heartbreaking. "I love you so much and...oh no...I'm coming down!" A friend took the same dose as his buddies, but he had to go to hospital for huge serotonin loss. He still takes zoloft to mitigate the mdma effect.
I just found your channel and love it. You chose great topics to speak on !! Thanks
Liberty cap mushrooms used to grow in the fields near where I grey up. Crazy times.
I'll refer you to and online store where I got my own psychedelics and microdosing stuff very good reliable vendor
Thank you for making this video. I am still on this earth today because of psychedelics. I urge everyone to keep an open mind and encourage the scientific research, that is making a comeback, for its usage in a clinical setting as a treatment for mental health struggles. They are transformative and truly do work.
It works for some. Others have bad trips and accidentally injure themselves and others comit suicide to get away from the devils and the little green men in the attic. Some just Roll down a mountain for fun, laughing all the way yet breaking bones. And some try to drive
@@richiebricker Set and Setting is key
@@richiebricker Fair point, which is why encouraging scientific is important.
As @vitokun3104 said, set and setting is key (you could also look at it as environment and intentions). I consider myself fairly experienced and prepare myself appropriately prior to each experience. Having said that, I truly believe that this needs to be prescribed and facilitated my medical/psychiatric professionals if it were to become legal.
The portion about rewiring your brain rings so true to me!
I honestly wouldn’t call mdma a psychedelic, because I’d never try anything that would make me see things, but I tried it once at a party and having all my serotonin poured out at once at a party I was dragged to was really quite formative.
I went to that party scared of any and all social interaction and left as a person who actually can derive happiness from social interaction.
How many years of therapy would that take without chemical help?
Psychedelics don't really make you see things, they aren't hallucinogens. I mean, it is possible with high doses to see things that aren't there but when you would normally take them, it doesn't work like that. You just see the world in a different type of way like you see it with some kind of filter and things move. It's because your brain is working overtime you can see your thoughts, but you don't actually see them. It's really hard to explain to someone who doesn't know what you're talking about. But besides that, you can most definitely start seeing shit with mdma too. Mdma can most definitely be a psychedelic experience. When you've taken a lot of mdma it's also like thinking you're seeing something but not actually seeing something, just because you are in a wild state of mind. A friend of mine once went outside on mdma at a party to take a piss. He was pissing against a tree and he thought he saw a themepark character just standing there, but not like in a scary way or anything. But it wasn't like he actually saw the guy standing there, it's like when you think you see something in the corner of your eye when you're sober, but when you look back it isn't there. Sometimes when you're tripping hard on some psychedelic substance, you can actually see the things you think you see. It's because the filter you get on your sight from tripping and things moving, being cranked up to the extreme, which makes your vision so wild that even though you can see what's originally supposed to be there in your line of sight, it looks like something else. Things morph into other things which makes it possible to actually see things that aren't there. But this isn't something that happens when you want to try a substance and you just take a light dose. The inventor of lsd actually accidentally gave himself such a high dose that he had no more normal vision. His sight was so distorted because he took like a 1000 times the normal dose (yes this is possible because you can't die from lsd alone) and he just saw things that weren't there to see to begin with. He was technically blind because to him it was like he was peeking into another universe or something. I hope you learned something from my explanation and I'm glad to clear things up.
By the way: the different mindset you get from mdma or magic mushrooms or other psychedelics is the biggest thing about the experience. I get that if you normally hate social interactions, that it is really weird but really amazing that you can have such a great time when you're on mdma. It has a great effect on you and even when you're sober again, you learn things about yourself and life from the experience itself. I really hope you've taken some things from your mdma experience to cherish that maybe give you a more positive outlook on things. Besides that, I think you would also really enjoy something like 2cb or magic truffles sometime in your life. It's a great experience and not that extreme like you would first think it to be
Conversion therapy for introverts
@@pilspolitie171closed eye visuals exist
What you “see “or the visuals you get from psychedelics are by far is the least intimidating part of them. What you should be scared of is boundary dissolution and hardline introspection and being held accountable for all your life junk. If anything the visuals are what keep a lot of it positive.
Wow. Great video. Excited to see what else you have uploaded on your channel
Psychedelics is the answer to most severe anxiety and depression. The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself 😊
Would love to see you and the psychiatrist Dr K from HealthyGamer talk about this. He's talked about this on stream and in video format and understands the difference between therapeutic and recreational use.
I strongly, strongly second this! Dr K from HealthyGamer would have an incredible discussion with Cleo
Except Dr K is not really a good voice for science-based content like this. He has "an evidence-based background in Ayurvedic mental health"and "He began studying alternative therapies including yoga, meditation, and REIKI". Look up Ayurvedic and Reiki, this is not scientific, this is pseudo-science, he has the right to believe in them but you shouldn't put him on a piedestal on scientific subjects because some of his very important beliefs (the ones he uses to try to heal people) are not scientific at all.
Ho yeah and also he has a full pyramidal coach thing going on...
Ok so speaking as a person who suffers from schizoaffective disorder and I feel like she kinda just jumped over psychosis really quickly and I want to try and spread awareness on what that means and the possible risks involved with taking a psychedelic.(Disclaimer I am not a psychiatrist I am working on it and right now this is my main area of expertise just based on experience with my disorder and with programs dealing with the family of disorders) So first off is how psychotic episodes and psychosis are onset. The way I’ve been taught about it is that your likely hood to get psychosis is like a bucket it gets filled by trauma and distress, negative emotions, once that bucket overflows is when we get psychosis. Some people are more likely to get psychosis and they start with some stuff in their bucket like family history of psychosis and brain injuries. The way I understand it is that psychedelics are a change in the brain that can cause more stuff to be put into the bucket that can fill you over the edge and onset psychosis which can last from a week to a month to your whole life. Drug induced psychosis is a whole thing and I feel like it deserves more than just a short sentence because it’s not fun it’s really scary. I also think that it scares me how little the general population know about psychosis, it isn’t all about schizophrenia it’s a spectrum like other mental illnesses and I would love to see her do a whole episode on it just so more people can understand it although I’m not sure if it fits her style. Sorry for such a long comment I just feel that people should understand the risks at play when you take a psychedelic and to try and help educate on something that is a part of me. Ask me questions if you have them.
This is incredibly helpful thank you for sharing.
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Great explanation. I know of almost no one who had a psychotic break with their first trip, but many who eventually had one after enough trips. The trauma is very real. I had nightmares for years before feeling like I had fully healed.
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@@fins59 Basically she didn’t say much about psychosis but it’s like a bucket it gets filled up and when it overflows you get psychosis psychedelics can contribute to that. Hope that helps.
Excellent reporting on a fascinating topic. Thank you. ✌️❤️
Psilocibyn is nothing short of a miracle. Gret video!
Psychedelics need more clear and rational diffusion to dispell so many decades of lies.
Girl, i know you prolly hear it all the time but you are just so beautiful and smart and talented. Thank you for sharing your greatness with all of us!
The first thing to know about psychedelics is that fear is the worst thing to take with you on a trip
@pham_smart1
A little fear is good. Psychedelic experiences are about submission, not conquest and they’re feminine and penetrating. Overconfidence or casual/recreational or leisurely attitudes going in is what’s worse.
@@Ryan88881 respect is not fear
@@kylecarter1599 I know but the respect and reverence should be essentially boundless. The fear should be minimal but probably still there if your methodologies and dosing are sufficient. Good or bad, heavyweight psychedelics like LSD, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Ayahuasca, and Ibogaine are still formidable even when they're a blast. But something like Ibogaine supposedly never being a blast, or even tolerable during most of it. And Ayahuasca is so unpredictable. And with LSD, synchronicity goes so mad that the environment has to be so controlled but even this seems impossible to eliminate, only tune down and mitigate. Like you will look at the clock to see just randomly what time it is and it will not only be exactly midnight, not only exactly a start of a new week, but even a new month. Or storms will come out of nowhere, or unforgettable encounters with the weirdest people you've ever met or will ever meet in the weirdest situations and you just become all surreally twisted-out. That’s my theory on Acid at least.
Regardless of psychedelics amazingly strong transducing of synchronistic phenomena even in the physical world, especially LSD. In many ways the emotio-cognitively, 'walking on egg-shells', hyperdimensional, meta-moralistic vulnerability-floodgates of the numinous tryptamine (especially base-tryptamine) compounds make almost even the extreme passivity of Nightshade-Datura related states seem preferable. When you get into high/strong dose areas of even oral hashish, let alone Ibogaine or Datura, Brugmansia, etc. You get into ascetic territory. Ordeal; a classic ascetic theme. Self-mortification for anthropic dignity. And this is a big thing with ayahuasca too; is not only purging but 'pain'. The "drama and pain" and nobility of life and death, social tension and struggle, health and disease, the Earth, animals and plants, etc.
And psilocybin counters this theme of pain with ayahuasca with its own archetype of fear. Of unnerving, dark, jaw-dropping, uncannily creepy, emotional repulsion to the darkly ambiguous and emotionally shuddering, madhouse implicative psychological sensations of horrifying *unknowingness* or even abject terror and emotive fright. At least when invited that is. Especially with the psilocybe semilanceata species supposedly. Fresh (as in non-dried) psilocybe cubensis always made me feel more heavy and gave sort of a stronger, more self-exploratory experience. And I find psilocybin overall; to usually instead be pretty extrospective and outer-space oriented which is interesting because all of the others seem to have mostly, or even exclusively (such as mescaline) terrestrial motifs whereas the psilocybe mushrooms give off this whole.. idiosyncratic, quirky, zany, Irish, eerie, Mag Mell, elfin/fae, gnomic vibe but also blended and overlapping (or even predominated) by this really unconventional, kind of futuristic, galactarian, sci-fi, dramatic, Wagnerian, hortatory, species-based, destiny-based, humanitarian, transdimensionally tele-communicational, extraterrestrial, bio-technical life-force that is some kind of high-throughput, information and 'teaching' system that is more focused on knowledge and learning than ‘healing'. And it's so esoterically functional, overtly theologically and epistemically-charged, and with such preeminence, that I think we now quite visibly deserve a new spiritual signifier for the classical, (semi-lost) Western Esotericism tradition so as to make these epistemological and/or spiritual disciplines more focal and central in the western mind and culture. And just something to replace the idealist, neo-Tibetan, LSD/Cannabis-based, hippie-esque, New-Age movement and the 'Eastern mysticism' tropes or Huxley-esque echoes of the late 1960s and early 70s that still dominate much of the psychedelic and entheogenic world still.
Right now we're heading back into the psychotherapeutic induction of these things and while they certainly are therapeutic in unparalleled ways and at many levels, they also are higher-dimensional mathematical operands perturbing (or retracting back) your conscious subjective state of awareness into higher mathematical spatial topological areas. In other words; math's way of saying "higher reality". This of course not at all being unusual for an information system with conductive nodes and wiring and semiconductors all running on electromagnetism; which is our brains and neural networks. That's also digital computers. Well we do this higher computational spatial-dimension stuff with normal digital computers all the time. It doesn't explain the phenomena of subjectivity, but it does shed light on the mere mathematical modalities of the apparent controversial topic or headline of "higher-dimensional perception", because it's just a functional operation in mathematical topology. A precise, molecularly-structured specific surface-binding, agnostic action affecting the conductivity of certain associated synapses resulting in a Euclidian manifold-related quantum-field phenomena. The same type of quantum-mathematical phenomena as those observed experimentally, and even just mundanely with computers, as well as with the regular functionalities or interactions happening at the nanoscale or subatomic (especially electron-level) scale in general; which these neuronal "drug" activities are occurring at in the first place. As far as I'm concerned, the mind is not a physical extension of the cells, atoms or particles in the cytoarchitectural recesses, but rather an electromagnetic radio waveform traversing from a higher-spatial source simply down into three-dimensional biogenic, organic nervous tissue; so that such an entity living in three-dimensional mathematical planes of existence can therefore experience itself through sentience. Well, like an information system with computational 'qualities', the electrical activity of cell-surface neuronal phenomena interfacing with the drug molecules at the bond site seems to inadvertently create a mathematic and computational operation. And in that higher, mathematical, topological space or manifold; you meet non-personally conscious nor unconsciously-related, but rather separate, higher intelligences or beings. And you are simultaneously bombarded with all kinds of other effects and feelings of course. But the 'thing' always has these strong intentional tones and harshly anti-reductive messages about metaphysics and this reflection on ‘magic’ and Otherness. And a simian-concentrated strong sense of epistemic humility in psilocybin’s case. Then there's the reoccurring, thematic, archetypal, motif-like nature of the trip that is sort of forefront, but also somewhat in the background; like the things I mentioned earlier about psilocybin or a bit with ayahuasca. But so they are a shamanic function. Arguably a divinatory one. We wont understand this stuff with just secular, non-scenic or non-phenomenologically proximate interventions, or even dissecting of the anterior cingular cortex.
Probably wont at least be until fully-realized quantum computing comes around that such temporally polynomial-destroying formulas for consciousness and its quantum-prone, electrodynamic, mathematical-spatially-spastic abilities are finally computed and accepted. And/or insight into the mechanistic dynamics of how the bonding of these drug molecules really work, or what these plants, fungi, lichen or even oozy toad-secretions within the biome are actually trying to tell us. When you meet enough psychonauts/travelers and discern the archetypes, it becomes more or less apparent, albeit still open-ended what the “messaging” is all about. I'm not sure if we can contemporarily, as Westerners however; come to accept the 'message' of say, the antimuscarinic Nightshades like Datura in the way the West did in Ancient Greece, during Mycenaean and Hellenistic times. Not necessarily at the mystery rites at Eleusis (Elefsina); but certainly with the Maenads of Thrace, as well as the Delphic Oracle of Apollo. Maybe we can't socioculturally afford the maenadic, Occult-like, chthonic, witchy, sacral, dementing, lunar, bloody, morbid, malicious, herbalist, superstitious and empowering message imparted by the tropane-containing nightshade entheogens such as datura. Even though their conveyed theme of 'empowerment' seems to be yet again, geared in the way of the feminine. These things bizarrely enough, seem to actually have 'target demographics'. So maybe we can’t handle Sanderson Sister-types, or even “Rose the Hat”-types. But *surely* we can't be so chicken-shit these days, as moderns that we somehow can't embrace a realist, refined, meta-Hellenism/Mycenaean, culturally distinguished, esoteric but still spiritual and dignified form or hybrid-ontology of psychedelic, ritual plant-shamanism. Or at least a "biogenic shamanism/esotericism." But either way; theology, or ritual or merely tradition through nature, not scripture. And also not through 17th-century, dogmatic, purely faith-driven, Cartesian materialism/physicalism. Which is practically just another ideologically-unwavering religion posing as "philosophy". Such cultish philosophies have nothing to do with science, yet it's co-opted many or most of its authorities to the point of befuddlement and regression. The only method, the only *thing* that will be there when you strip it all away (the societies, architecture, culture, literature, worldvews) is going to be nature.
I've been a lifelong advocate for cannabis and psilocybin to be legal in the US like it was not long ago.... I quit buying recreational cannabis off the street because people in PA like putting Fentanyl or Carfentanil in stuff either to kill people or make it seem stronger, so this would be a dream for me to get legal psilocybin alongside of recreational cannabis. 😊❤❤❤
The handl ^ is a good plug for psychdelics, and, more..
I will never forget my first breakthrough experience with DMT. It cannot really be described with words because in this state of consciousness the concept of language does not exist. It is also not possible to imagine these many dimensions because our ability to imagine in everyday consciousness is limited to 3 dimensions. I'll try to describe my experience as best I can. I smoked 50mg of DMT. I flew through a multi-dimensional fractal tunnel at the speed of light and as I did, my ego dissolved more and more. At that moment I thought I was about to die. I had already “forgotten” about the DMT. Then, from one moment to the next, my ego completely disappeared and I was “there.” It somehow felt like I had just woken up and my entire life, including my ego, had just been a dream that would immediately fade. It felt totally familiar and like I had always been “there.” I had absolutely no thoughts in this state of consciousness. I let everything happen without judging anything. I was everything and nothing at the same time. I was one with the universe. I was the universe. Absolute nonduality. Just pure being. While I was in this multi-dimensional "space" and "saw" highly complex, constantly changing fractals in all dimensions, I simultaneously looked right into the face of God. And then, in the final twist, I realized it's a mirror. Eventually, I slowly came back into my body and ego and couldn't believe what I had just experienced. This completely changed my idea of God. Before this experience I was an atheist. That was the most profound experience of my life.
I found your channel yesterday, and your vids are so insightful and informative. Especially when it comes to NFT, AI, and new tech in general. I've had many questions about these topics but it was always pushed to the back of my mind due to the amount of people saying it's bad, it's gonna take away our jobs, it's dumb, etc especially when I got too scared to asked questions cuz I didn't want ppl to think I'm bad too. I can't thank you enough for being so open minded and welcoming to differing opinions as well as answering complex questions in a way the average person can understand. I hope my understanding of a lot of things continue to grow & Tysmmm for this channel and yourself
The handl ^ is a good plug for psychdelics and more,
na. I giggled pretty hard. Thank you so much for being SUPER thorough with citations and just generally laying out so much knowledge in such a coherent way. You reminded me to subscribe also because apparently I forgot to on the last 2 or 3 I watched so thanks for the reminder.
Psychedelics have produced incredibly enriching and beautifully profound experiences throughout my life that shaped who I am.
a mouse??
@@alanelukman2516 I'm not selling anything. I know what you're joking about though.
And who are you and who would you be. We need studies on that as well. Feeling good about yourself and actually being in a good place in life are two different things.
Psychedelics have also produced beautiful music, my favourites in fact.
@@adriannuske chinchilla
I’ve been depressed and suicidal my whole life. I almost killed myself at eight, and recently I have started ketamine. And although I’m not out of my depression I feel hundreds of times better. I think its important and revolutionary.
It's not , I can help
I really appreciate the nuance. Treating this stuff as a medical drug is going to give better results than either taking it willy-nilly or completely shutting it down.
I have complex PTSD and over a decade of traditional therapy did nothing for me. EMDR helped some, but it was also too destabilizing when it came to trying to work through my heavier traumas, and so I had to stop to avoid getting retrauamtized. I suspect I would benefit greatly from MDMA assisted therapy, as the main struggle for me is getting my nervous system into a regulated state where I'm able to feel safe, particularly when I'm around other people. It's that nervous system regulation and sense of safety that allows traumatic memories to be reprocessed, so if you can't access that, you get stuck unable to process the trauma, and continually subjected to reliving it every time you're triggered. My best hope for now is getting into a clinical trial for MDMA, but I'm not in the US, and I don't know if it will actually happen, as the study I was hoping to get into which was supposed to be recruiting this year disappeared off the list of studies, so I don't know if it was canceled or what. All I can do is hope and keep trying everything under the sun. This condition is so debilitating, and so so hard to treat. The sooner we can get effective treatments the better.
Sounds like you started at step 3 when 1 & 2 might be a big help (at least they’ve helped me). Andrew Huberman is a brain/nervous system scientist & tenured prof who has a YT channel independent of university restrictions on evolving matters like the transition underway from the drug war to helping folks. His videos cover basic brain-body stuff like -
- no detectable brain evolution has taken place in the short 10k yrs of humans’ plantation agriculture (our brains evolved entirely when we lived in nature; physical danger was as critical as eating & surviving the elements);
- stabilizing my circa-dian (around a day) rhythm (amazing story of colors, time of day, and how they affect the different eye-brain pathways that sync our sleep-wake patterns to nature’s rhythm);
- understanding the brain-gut connection, the importance of a healthy gut biome to avoid immune system dysfunction (eg, get of all refined sugars & not eating SAD, the “standard American diet”);
- and understanding each half of our nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system that chemically handles danger thru release of eg, cortisol, and tends to over-react to civilizational stresses, and the parasympathetic nervous system that enables meditation, daydreaming & “chilling-out”; and
- developing the recognition skills that let us avoid dys-regulation of our emotions.
(I don’t mean this to be a lecture; it’s writing practice & a way of putting into writing what I hear & see to better understand new ideas.)
I became motivated to write here by your describing how your had to stop therapy when encountering heavier traumas. In the process of learning some fundamentals as I’ve described above, I ended up getting a lot more benefit from therapy as I work on it w/ a healthier body-mind that’s given me confidence to talk about some things I’d been avoiding before. After some screen-shots & subscribing, I’m done for now. Good luck to you. 😊
MDMA is exactly what you’re looking for. It breaks all barriers of communication down and allows love to flow through yourself. It might be worth just finding some and doing it in a way that you would see in a clinic. There would not be much difference in the feeling, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise
This was a nice, well-balanced video on an over-hyped topic. I appreciate your critical thinking. It would be good for you to update this video given the recent rejection of Lykos' proposal to use MDMA for PTSD. There were serious problems with the data.
I would also like to say that compared to the modalities currently available for many of these disorders, Psychedelics comparatively are:
1) Cheaper
2) Safer
3) More reliably effective in a shorter time span
4) have longer-lasting effects (Mushrooms show antidepressant effects for up to 6mos.)
In the case of major depression in particular, the science on SSRIs isn't really necessarily all that much more solid than what you mentioned in the video. The current hypothesis for their actual functioning is linked to neurogenesis but it is still entirely theoretical.
(The horrible pop-psychology lie that levels of dopamine/serotonin are linked to depressive states is totally bunk from that simplistic of a level. These chemicals play a part but scientists do not know exactly why. There is no "normal" dopamine level per person.)
On top of that, these drugs take up to 4-6 weeks to work and often require a balancing drug of a different kind to ensure that the patient functions. The drugs also have marked side effects when coming onto them and marked side effects when withdrawing from them (ironically, increased suicidality in both cases).
I hate to be that hippie, but the fact that SSRIs are prescribed at the scale they are and are treated as well-researched healing modalities when they are anything but is one of the great tragedies of the war on drugs.
Walking outside for 20-30minutes a day has the same efficacy as Prozac. Just saying.
(Not advocating them for patients with clear demonstrated histories of mental disorders as well but that goes without saying).
Can psychedelics help with Autism and global development delay in children via neurogenesis?
@@pranavid"help with autism"? What does that mean?
@@pranavid Look into microbiome for autism in kids, or brain damage from WAY to much adjuvants acquired with vaccines (maybe Lions mane can help with that, as I would be scared to give psychedelics to a kid, god knows what will happen).
@@pranavid I can honestly say I do not know. Never researched that particular subset of things! 👍
@@pranavid We don't know, this is why legalization is important, so we can do more research.
Absolutely outstanding little documentary put together here Cleo.
I hope that we get to a place with psychedelics where we can choose our own set and setting after having bought it from a dispensary (cause the amounts are reliable).
The handl ^ is a good plug for psychdelics and more.....
This is so scary to me as ive just spent the past two years in PTSD therapy after my NHS surgeons put me in a coma after my 9th big surgery whilst pumping me full of ketamine. I spent a week in absolute terror seeing and hearing things that i pray were hallucinations 😢 i would rather suffer the horiffic physical pain than the tourture of being immobile and being mentally abused.
*Psychedelic definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PTSTD,ADDICTION,TRAUMA AND DEPRESSION ETC.The experience gave me freedom.I was Able to get shrooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to my location without hassel*
@TRIPCLAN
Psilocybin saved my life from 16 years of depression and PTSD
Can you describe the process in yourself... assuming your thought and memory patterns took a while to change?
Alcohol and cigarettes saved mine
@@paulthek1488 and unfortunately they will take it away from you later
@@paulthek1488they will destroy your liver and lungs in return for saving you👀
did you do microdosing, or larger doses from time to time, or both?
I’m 20 and have MDD (Major Depressive Disorder) I’ve only taken mushrooms twice but it definitely made me feel better about life and my overall happiness. Still want to take psilocybin with a registered therapist to help treat some of the traumas I’ve been through and fix my overall perception of life! Thanks for this video! Helps me stay positive about the future and hoping the government of Canada legalized it and starts researching to help fix my wack ass brain!
I am so glad I discovered this channel. The topics, quality of research and content, and production is unmatched. Maybe my new favofite channel on RUclips.
I've heard a lot about magic mushrooms, DMT, LSD but can't find a place to get them, I've got terrible depression and anxiety
The psychedelic experience is temporary but many people have permanent results
Mushroom completely turned my life around and my anxiety and panic attack disappeared and my personality changed into a much more generous loving person
(doctor_mckenzie)
Got psych's
I had 3.5 grams dried lemon tek most beautiful experience ever!!
I recommend 🆙☝️You can always order from him, he's legit & reliable,he's got magic shrooms,LSD,DMT, chocolate bars and many more, he's the best 💯.
how can i get shrooms
I’ll hook you up with this mycologist who’s been guiding me for some time, she got lsd, dmt, mdma, mushrooms, chocolate bars, gummies etc
@karentripz
She's on instxgram
go to forest
Don't beg, study.
I don't know anyone in my vast network of friends that isn't struggling on some level, mitigated by moments of joy, be it concerts or any other forms of group entertainment, intimate moments, etc...on their own, always a struggle ESPECIALLY post COVID. I have no doubt it would help many reset their perception of themselves and the world around them. PS: Music for Psychedelic Therapy by Jon Hopkins is a beautiful trip. PPS: Important work you're doing here Cleo!
I battled with depression, anxiety & C-PTSD. I do hear that shroom cures depression. Wish doctors could be more open to nature medicine over big pharmacy but we know why though
Psychedelics dissolved 10years of my depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in 10 minutes for me.
When I opened my eyes I came back as a different me.
All trauma has been dissolved before my very eyes.
I understood what love and understanding truly meant and 9 months on, I've never experienced any of the depression and anxiety that plagued my existence beforehand.
I saw every path that everyone had ever taken and why.
It is the most profound experience of my life. Just my experience.
Psychedelics shrooms tend to fix problems at their core, unlike modern medicine which tries to fix the symptoms. This is why psychedelics work great for depression and addiction.
I realized too that psychedelics are also known to cause out of body experiences altered perception of time, ego dissolution, complete detachment from reality and entities at high doses.
How to research and locate them??
I can recommend you to Frierson Selman he is a genius
Good video, I appreciate your scientific litteracy! It's cool watching this research unfold. I'm in grad school for clinical counseling and trying to evaluate whether I might want to assist in guiding trips as a part of my future practice. Just finished reading the 'Studying Harms Is Key to Improving Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy-Participants Call for Changes to Research Landscape' article -- thank you for the citation!
The handl ^ is a good plug for psychdelics and more......
I've been watching your videos for some time and now I've finally subscribed. I was a little disappointed in that there was no mention of Ibogaine. But, nobody's perfect. Keep up the good work, it's a noble struggle, and yes, the struggle is real ;)
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s so hard to source here
Mushrooms changed me too. I became a better version of myself
[trippy_psych]
Ships psychedelics
Loved this. I battle from depression, anxiety and C-PTSD.
I’ve heard shrooms cured depression. Wished doctors were more open to natural medicines over Bîg pharmaceuticals but we know why
@@Scott-x where to search??
@@Scott-x I’ll order some immediately
This is a game changer for people like me suffering from severe depression (major depressive disorder), anxiety, and PTSD. I take 6 or 7 different meds that can affect the liver and kidneys to "treat" my conditions. I say "treat" because they don't really make much of a difference.
I can't wait for more testing to be done so I can maybe find a safer and more effective way to treat my psych conditions.
It's been used for thousands of years. I really don't think you should wait for more testing. There are legal treatment centers in Colorado, Oregon, Mexico, Jamaica, Netherlands
Great video! Thank you. They helped me a lot here in the Netherlands.
Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by
When you've experienced psilocybin, the visions, the feeling that others feel, become really relatable and real. But when you haven't, it could sound very weird and wrong.
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Ships psychedelics
The good thing about LSD is its non addictive, the best experience l've EVER had on ANY drug was LSD, I've been so happy my face literally hurt from smiling so much for so many hours,
@@Stephanie56739
where to search?? Is it IG?
1 literally don't know why but shrooms make me giggle so much like I be cheesin for no goddamn reason
I can't find a source anywhere for any good psychedelics in my area, I suffer some pretty bad depression and i got a chance to try K and man it was a miracle substance, I felt free,the only high or euphoria was from the relief of my vices being released, that's exactly what it did
The psychedelic experience is temporary but many people have permanent results
Mushroom completely turned my life around and my anxiety and panic attack disappeared and my personality changed into a much more generous loving person
doctor_Mckenzie
Got psychedelics
I had 3.5 grams dried lemon tek most beautiful experience ever!!
Psychedelics changed my life. I have never struggled with depression the way I used to after my first experience, and for about a year to two years afterwards my social and general anxiety decreases so heavily!!! It was absolutely eye opening and wonderful. It definitely helped me become a better person, in general.
(It didn’t help my spelling abilities though)
As someone who has had direct experience, I wouldn't recommend psychedelics be used recreationally, but I would recommend them be used therapeutically. I was in a very dark phase of my life when I tried them, and they changed my life. Reconnecting to the Oneness of everything experientially is more powerful than you could ever imagine. However, for recreation, it can be a disaster in the wrong set and setting. It should be used as medicine only.
Edited to add: I actually prefer to call them "entheogens", because the meaning of that word is more closely related to the experience of these drugs, and it is "generating the divine within". Once you've had a heroic dose of psilocybin, you'll know what that means to the depth of your core.
Def don't take this stuff on your own if you're not in the right headspace. Clinically, sure, you'll have professionals on standby to assist you with your journey. I tried self medicating with LSD and then ibogaine when I was in a deep depression. It did not help me at all, and it was terrifying. And I have a lot of experience with LSD.
There were some studies conducted which would change your brain to make u more happy. Like with cancer survivors, they were not stressed with their check ups (if or not the cancer came back). A lot of therapy sessions before tl prepare mentally and emotionally the person. U gotta be in the mood of feeling good to feel good. I ain't no professional but the subject interests me
So, I commented before watching the video...
@@37Kilo2 Yes, a proper set and setting is absolutely essential, and an experienced trip sitter is very important. They can be taken if in depression (that's kind of the point of some of these studies), but it has to be done in the right set and setting on a day that the depression is subdued, and the person has to know how to surrender and how to handle certain parts of the trip. Good trip sitters can help with all those things.
I don't understand how people use psychedelics recreationally, it's intense and revealing, not pleasurable or fun. Maybe they use a low dose, I haven't had a low dose.
I have tried mushrooms, DMT and Acid once each and all I can say, its amazing. All I can say, "Don't judge, unless you first try.
I believe in people again. Very direct and onpoint thank you for being you
1:54 - While I was watching the clearly druggy animation, I realized that video intros in general are kind of psychedelic in general 😎🌞🤯