passivity of mystical experiences, 72
peak experiences, Maslow’s concept of, 49 , 55
perceptions and senses, 308 –9
Person to Person CBS news program, 113
personality disorders, 56
petrochemical waste, mycoremediation of, 88
peyote, 17 , 27 , 368 , 404 , 405 . See also mescaline
pharmaceutical companies, 400
phase 3 trials for psychedelics, 397 , 400
phenomenology, 42 , 149
The Philosophical Baby (Gopnik), 325
placebo effect, 347 , 368 , 382
placebo-controlled double-blind trials, 208
platitudes, 251
Plotkin, Mark, 107
Plowman, Tim, 107
political effects of psychedelics, 315
pollution, mycoremediation of, 88
posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), 322 , 387 –88, 391 –93
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 18 , 36 –37
prayer, 306
predictive coding by brain, 307 –8, 310 , 311 , 321 , 325
Previn, André, 156
primates’ consumption of mushrooms, 97 –98, 123
problem solving
high/low temperature searches in, 325 –27
impact of LSD on, 179 , 182
and rewiring of brain, 318 –19
protocols for psychedelic use, value of, 214 –15
psilocin
and animals’ mushroom consumption, 123
Hofmann’s isolation of, 113
and materialist perspective, 135
measuring, 102
and mushroom identification, 95 , 119
in mycelium, 122
Psilocybe Mushrooms and Their Allies (Stamets), 101
Psilocybes
author’s early experience with, 5 –6
and Aztecs, 2
consumed by animals, 93 , 98 , 122 –23
evolutionary function of psilocybin in, 84 , 121 –24
as “flesh of the gods,” 2 , 83 , 109
habitats of, 93 –94, 101
identification of, 94 –96
Latin American sources of, 101
legal penalties for possession of, 118
and mushroom conferences, 102 –3
Native Americans’ use of, 2 , 83 , 107
new species identified, 86 , 101 –2
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