How 'magic mushroom' chemical could free the mind of depression, addictions

(CNN) -- Think of psychedelics and you'll likely think of bright colors, hallucinations, spirituality, and an overall "mystical" experience. For centuries these drugs have been used in social, religious and medicinal contexts by cultures across the globe. But today, the ability of these drugs to alter our brain function is being tapped into as a potential therapeutic for a range of mental health conditions from anxiety and depression to addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

"Only by losing the self, can you find the self," explains Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, from Imperial College London. These may not be the usual words of a scientist but there is biology behind them. "People try and run away from things and to forget, but with psychedelic drugs they're forced to confront and really look at themselves," he says.

The drugs Carhart-Harris is referring to are hallucinogens such as magic mushrooms -- specifically the active chemical inside them, psilocybin. "We're beginning to identify the biological basis of the reported mind expansion associated with psychedelic drugs," he says. Psilocybin is not addictive and is interesting to researchers for its ability to make users see the world differently. The team at Imperial College has begun to unravel why.

Carhart-Harris scanned the brains of 30 healthy volunteers after they had been injected with psilocybin and found the more primitive regions of the brain associated with emotional thinking became more active and the brain's "default mode network," associated with high-level thinking, self-consciousness and introspection, was disjointed and less active.

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Wow! I've been reading studies of medical marijuana being used for PTSD and other psychiatric disorders. I've spoken to people that have cured cancer with it. Saw Sonjay Gupta's documentaries on it curing ALS and so much more. Greedy drug companies are fighting it hard.

Thanks Tara, very interesting article..

All the cures for our aches, pains, ailments and diseases; whether physical, mental or emotional are all out there in God's green paradise. Little did most of us know throughout our lives that all our needs were truly provided for. It has been that way since the beginning.

If this interests you, I suggest looking into Terence McKenna's "Stoned Ape" theory and the role psilocybin mushrooms have played in human development.

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