Interesting read. I like that you didn't attack psychedelics, rather you were objective, and pointed out some known facts. I applaud you for this :) Not because I am an advocate for harm reduction and safe drug use, but because I am very FOR the betterment of humanity through any means possible! And the world of using psychedelics, or entheogens, for psychotherapeutic use is growing exponentially, and seeing more and more doctors and scientists around the world join in on the research. The most important of these is Dr Rick Doblin from MAPS http://www.maps.org/. These guys have been using MDMA in clinical environments, under the guidance of a psychiatrist or psychologists, to cure PTSD in 2/3 cases within 3 doses! It is such amazing research that the FDA has approved their stage 3 clinical trials in america to help Veterans, police, and fire fighters with PTSD by allowing them to join the clinical trials. Truly amazing work!

I would like to correct one thing for you though. Saying that the hallucination is "real" or "fake" is actually inaccurate. Studies done on humans with EEG readers (brain wave pattern readers), have conclusively agreed that the brain doesn't know the difference between all the different "realities" we experience. For example, EEG readings done on humans shows the same brainwave pattern whether they are in a normal state, dream state, drunk, hallucinatory state(through substance use, or natural occurrences), deep depression, schizophrenic state, epileptic states even, etc. The only exception is Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). When people with MPD go from multiple to multiple (each different personallity), they actually change brain wave patterns. its fascinating!
What this means is, our brain registers both our ordinary state of reality, and our non-ordinary experiences as the same. The brainwave doesn't change. So we can't actually say that what we experience, even right now, is "real" OR "fake"! As it stands, both ordinary and non-ordinary states of consciousness are both fake, AND real, until we learn more about how to quantify consciousness.

I want to continue by adding to your comments about mushrooms, LSD, and ketamine. All 3 of these have been used since the 50s and 60s by doctors and scientists when it was first legal to do research with these substances.
One man in particular, amongst many, is called Dr Stanislav Grof (also with his wife, Dr Christina Grof), did some incredible work with pre teen kids who had very severe mental illness. He was curing these kids with LSD and Psilcybin Cubensis mushrooms (Stropherea Cubensis was changed to Psilocybin Cubensis). Until one day the government said no more research, and all the kids ended up either dying, or being left in mental homes and pumped with legal drugs, doing nothing to help them, only prolong their horrid existence... Disgusting... Since ,Grof has come up with a new method of healing called "holotropic breathwork" (you would be VERY interested based on your article), which uses different breathing techniques to bring people into the same state of mine as the mushroom or LSD state, and guide them through past traumas, mental illness, and other ailments. Amazing stuff.
There is a lot of information out there about all the research still being done with LSD and psilcybin containing mushrooms. I highly recommend you have a read.

And lastly DMT and Ayahuasca. I'll try not to go on for too long because there is SO much more to this than I will type in 5 minutes...
Ok so... where to begin... DMT is endogenous in humans, 100s of 1000s of plants, trees, grass, insects, all mammals, the list goes on.... It is naturally occurring in humans,(unknown source, pineal gland in rats). DMT is the MOST potent entheogen that we know of, to date). It is also allowed through the blood brain barrier (BBB) from an external source. So for example, if you extract the DMT from a plants and smoke it, within seconds you will enter a state of mind that I wont bother trying to explain... Let's just say for 66 minutes or so, you will be taken to a new reality,and when you return you have no option but to understand how real it is... it is too difficult to explain in a few minutes. Why is our BBB allowing this compound to enter, especially considering how strict our brain is with letting in external compounds.
DMT is used in nature by tribes in the amazon. If you eat DMT, it is destroyed in our gutts by a MonoAmine Oxidise, or MAO, and has ZERO effect! You can eat 4 kilos and still nothing. But some how the Amazonians figured out that if you add another plant (which 1000s of years later we now call MAO inhibitors), allows the DMT through the gutts and gives you a prolonged DMT experience, but less intense... Still very VERY intense...
Amazonians use this brew of DMT they call AYAHUASCA to cure mental illness, and to learn how to heal their tribes. The visions they have while in the deepr hallucinatory state are of divine people, teaching them about the secrets of healing. This is very vague, and you can learn a lot more about this by watching a few documentaries or reading the many books on the subject. Ayahuasca shamanism is now a recognised international religion. Well done world :)
If ayahuasca was allowed in psychotherapeutic clinical environments, we could remove all mental illness from the world. Can you see why this wouldn't be legal?

Ok I think I'll stop there :p I am very passionate about this topic, in fact I have written my own articles on the topic. I will leave you with to ponder now :) Thank you for provoking though and allowing me to express my knowledge! I love to share, and educate! It seems you do too :)

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