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15/06/2023

8,000+ Films, Shows & Classes on Gaia. Start Your Free Trial - https://bit.ly/3SnVeuEMany have heard: “At first there was the word,” but does this really mea...

15/06/2023

Original film description:YOGI (yo-ge)An individual who has spent years in isolated retreat practicing secret self-transforming physical and mental exercises...

22/11/2022

"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed." - Terence McKenna

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20/11/2022

14/11/2022

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Esketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression — First FDA-Approved Antidepressant in a New Class

14/11/2022

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp1903305

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Esketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression — First FDA-Approved Antidepressant in a New Class

16/10/2022

The fungi kingdom is understudied, but there’s an effort underway to change that

07/10/2022

We introduce a novel hypothesis which states that the therapeutic utilisation of psilocybin has beneficial effects on genetic aging. Ex hypothesi, we predict a priori that controlled psilocybin interventions exert quantifiable positive impact on leucocyte telomere length (telomeres are a robust pred...

25/09/2022

02/08/2022

UPGRADE YOUR BRAIN, UPGRADE YOUR LIFE 🧠

🎯Our brain impacts how we think, feel, act, and interact. Our brain is the most complex organ in our body, with over 100 billion neurons and trillions of supporting cells. Our brain accounts for only 2% of our body's weight but uses 20-30% of our calories per day, and our daily behaviors can accelerate or decelerate aging in the brain. It is backed by science that a healthier brain leads to happier and more successful lives.

👁Five tips to implement today to decelerate aging in the brain and boost brain reserves!

😴Get a great night’s sleep (less sleep = less blood flow to the brain)

🤸🏻‍♂️Move throughout the day + exercise regularly (walking, gym, yoga, or your favorite mindful movement) + strength training several times a week.

🧘🏻‍♂️Meditate (Beginners can use or )

🙏🏼Practice gratitude, a grateful brain is healthier than a hateful brain.

🫐Nourish your body and brain with clean, organic, whole foods, reduce your sugar intake, increase your dark leafy greens, protein, antioxidants, and healthy fats!

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12/07/2022

Netflix and psychedelics!

We’re excited to announce that you can now stream “How to Change Your Mind,” featuring Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), on Netflix.

Based on the best-selling book by acclaimed author Michael Pollan, Chapter 3: M**A spotlights our psychedelic research with M**A-assisted therapy, featuring MAPS representatives including myself, MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC) Senior Medical Director for Medical Affairs, Training, and Supervision Michael Mithoefer, M.D., MAPS-sponsored researchers Annie Mithoefer, B.S.N., and Shari Taylor, Ph.D. Produced by esteemed filmmakers Lucy Walker, Alison Ellwood, and Alex Gibney, the documentary series explores the broad ecosystem of psychedelic science with additional episodes dedicated to psilocybin, L*D, and mescaline.

Help change minds by spreading awareness about psychedelics and the new Netflix series with your community!

netflix.com/howtochangeyourmind

13/06/2022

Is there a correlation between posture and cognition?

A mass survey of citizens aged 50 to 89 years examined whether cognitive decline could be detected by sagittal spinal balance measurement based on a radiological approach.

When viewed from the side, the more the head and neck protrude in front of the pelvis, the more likely subjects are to show symptoms of mild cognitive decline.

Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12605-7

07/04/2022

Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity

Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims

Clickable link to the article at PaulStamets.com

FTA: Fungi exhibit oscillations of extracellular electrical potential recorded via differential electrodes inserted into a substrate colonized by mycelium or directly into sporocarps. We analysed electrical activity of ghost fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis), Enoki fungi (Flammulina velutipes), split gill fungi (Schizophyllum commune) and caterpillar fungi (Cordyceps militaris). The spiking characteristics are species specific: a spike duration varies from 1 to 21 h and an amplitude from 0.03 to 2.1 mV. We found that spikes are often clustered into trains. Assuming that spikes of electrical activity are used by fungi to communicate and process information in mycelium networks, we group spikes into words and provide a linguistic and information complexity analysis of the fungal spiking activity. We demonstrate that distributions of fungal word lengths match that of human languages. We also construct algorithmic and Liz-Zempel complexity hierarchies of fungal sentences and show that species S. commune generate the most complex sentences.

15/12/2021

BDNF is like miracle grow for you brain btw 🧠

Nadia R. P. W. Hutten, Natasha L. Mason, Patrick C. Dolder, Eef L. Theunissen, Friederike Holze, Matthias E. Liechti, Nimmy Varghese, Anne Eckert, Amanda Feilding, Johannes G. Ramaekers, and Kim P. C. Kuypers – First published 31st August, 2020 in ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science – Link ...

03/12/2021

Clip: Culture Is Not Your Friend, US (1999)

Terence McKenna speaks about the impact of culture on our lives.

Clip taken from a lecture called "Psychedelics In The Age Of Intelligent Machines" (27 April, 1999 in Seattle, US).

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18/11/2021

Fellow Myconauts

We are greatly honored to notify you of our new paper published in Nature's Scientific Reports

Freely available online at www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01811-4
(Clickable link at Paulstamets.com)

Using app available at microdose.me, our team worked for more than two years gathering data on more than 8000 people, and within this set there is a surprising balance of more than 4000 non-microdosers compared to more than 4000 microdosers.

We hope this data will be useful for informing physicians in designing clinical studies.

We will have some more updates soon. Very exciting times!

We all are part of a great community, and...one giant consciousness.

We have much work to do. We have a planet and people to save.

Thank you deeply for your support on this shared journey.

Stay safe. Be hopeful. We can co-invent our future together.

Respectfully, Paul