'Old' Therapy New Again

I thought this was great. Bravo to the one's who considered the benefits of this!!!

Psychedelic trips aid cancer patients in study

By MALCOLM RITTER (AP) – [April 23, 2010]

NEW YORK — The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She'd already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do.

She swallowed it, lay on the couch with her eyes covered, and waited. And then it came.

"The world was made up of jewels and I was in a dome," she recalled. Surrounded by brilliant, kaleidoscopic colors, she saw the dome open up to admit "this most incredible luminescence that made everything even more beautiful."

Tears trickled down her face as she saw "how beautiful the world could actually be."

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This patient has ovarian cancer and was very anxious and fearful. This study and a handful of others like it, using plain ol' LSD, MDMA (i.e., Ecstasy) and the primary ingredient of "magic mushrooms" (psilocybin), otherwise known as "mind-altering drugs" and which could also be titled "mind-expanding drugs", are getting a second look.

"There is now more psychedelic research taking place in the world than at any time in the last 40 years," said Rick Doblin, executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which funds some of the work. "We're at the end of the beginning of the renaissance."

Of special note, every single participant in the study stated they would . . .

" . . . do it a second time in a New York minute."