The Trip Treatment
Here is a feature article, The Trip Treatment, in the New Yorker with a great in-depth history on the use of psilocybin for healing.
Tree of Knowledge by Hilma af Klimt. 1915.
“But more than a year after their psilocybin sessions volunteers who had had the most complete mystical experiences showed significant increases in their “openness,” one of the five domains that psychologists look at in assessing personality traits. (The others are conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.) Openness, which encompasses aesthetic appreciation, imagination, and tolerance of others’ viewpoints, is a good predictor of creativity.”
