Magic mushrooms for the dying... Psychedelic experience as therapy

"The world was made up of jewels and I was in a dome.... I saw how beautiful the world can be." -67 year old woman description of her drug trip


So I stumbled on this article about psychedelic drug trials and this woman that had a spiritual/psychedelic experience during a study on Psilocybin, the active drug in magic mushrooms. I just couldn't help but wonder what the hell she did with the other 67 years of her life waiting for that experience?
And then I realized, that as a culture we don't stress the significance of a spiritual epiphanies, and we don't really do anything to promote a healthy exploration of ourselves in this way.
When we see it in other countries, rural villages, and even subcultures it's portrayed as drug induced. This is not the case. You know the Evangelical preachers?  The one always yelling, "channeling god" to heal by parading the old and sick on a stage and then bellow, "HOLY FATHER PLEASE TAKE THIS PERSONS PAIN AWAY, PLEASE HEAVENLY FATHER UP ABOVE, LET THIS PERSON SEE THE BEAUTY THAT IS YOU!" and then the guy slaps the person's forehead and they fall to the ground.
All this looks so over the top, silly to most. But in all actuality, that person is having a psychedelic experience. If not at the moment, but later when they count the chunk of change donated to the church, but I digress... Did you know that in some sects of Evangelicals, they work themselves up to a point where they are in a trance and "speak in tongues?" The psychedelic experience is here in our society, but it's not the norm. Which is sad because it's not always a freak event that it's made up to be.

  What if you could have a psychedelic/spiritual experience every day? That's my favorite part about raising my son. Everyday he sees or learns something that totally blows his mind. When you feel everything as a beautiful happening, life becomes an amazing splendor of psychedelic experience.
Now if that was a drug, I would take it....




Here are the articles that I mentioned above, check it out it's pretty interesting.
Cancer patients try out psychedelic drug - latimes.com
Placebo Journal Blog: Medical Humor With A Purpose: Shrooming For Anxiety