How Hallucinogens Play Their Mind-Bending Games

"Researchers isolate cells affected by LSD and mescaline, potentially leading to more treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders"

An article by Scientific American. Read it here.

Psychedelic Healing?

"Hallucinogenic drugs, which blew minds in the 1960s, soon may be used to treat mental ailments".

Writes David Jay Brown in Scientific American Magazine (dated 26th February 2005).

Psychedelic medicine: Mind bending, health giving

An article by New Scientist Magazine. Read it here.

"Tripping De-Light Fantastic - Are psychedelic drugs good for you?

Like someone said in an Entheogen-related forum, this article by Slate has some balls. That is, unlike the previously posted TIME-article which feels rather conformistic..

Introduction

Greetings Visitors,

This Blog is about Altered States of Consciousness. Now, just what is the "altered state of consciousness"?

According to Wikipedia it is: "any state which is significantly different from a normative waking beta wave state.". A person can induce this phenomena to oneself via "accidentally through indigestion, fever, sleep deprivation, starvation, oxygen deprivation, nitrogen narcosis (deep diving), or a traumatic accident.".

It can be also achieved intentionally by the use of a sensory deprivation tank or mind-control techniques, hypnosis, meditation, prayer, or disciplines (e.g. Mantra Meditation, Yoga, Sufism). It is sometimes attained through the ingestion of psychoactive drugs such as alcohol and opiates, or psychoactive plants and chemicals such as LSD, peyote, marijuana, mescaline, Salvia divinorum, MDMA, psychedelic mushrooms, ayahuasca or datura.

Naturally occurring altered states of consciousness include dreams, lucid dreams, euphoria, ecstasy, psychosis as well as purported premonitions, out-of-body experiences, and channeling.

Source: Wikipedia