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John Hopkins University is about to conduct another psilocybin study, and is therefore looking for volunteers with a cancer diagnosis. The study is directed at self exploration and personal meaning.

The institute received a lot of attention when they published the results of a follow-up to research showing that psilocybin, a substance contained in “sacred mushrooms,” produces substantial spiritual effects (2006). The team reported that those beneficial effects appear to last more than a year.

“Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives,” says lead investigator Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor in the Johns Hopkins departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience.

Watch the CNN video.

This news was found on a new website, Psychointegrator, a Brazilian initiative aiming to collect all psychedelic research worldwide. Thumbs up!

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