Uh, they did say "detrimental effects." Those don't sound detrimental to me.
In fact, knowing as we do that psilocybin has a significant impact on reducing depression for months after a single dose - including for otherwise untreatable major depression - it sounds like those folks may have had some low-level baseline depressive symptoms. [edit] Not to the point of being clinical of course. [1]
> I assert it is detrimental. There is a "mystic" "spiritual" shift as well, that I really dont think is grounded in reality. Just because current science cant measure these changes dont mean they dont happen.
I hate to break this to you, but mysticism and spirituality isn't grounded in reality no matter what.
[edit] > I would also describe the effect as "loopy"
> I hate to break this to you, but mysticism and spirituality isn't grounded in reality no matter what.
Some spiritual practices aim at direct experience of the true nature of reality. They're about sharpening your mind such that it is capable of intuiting such insights.
> I hate to break this to you, but mysticism and spirituality isn't grounded in reality no matter what.
Who among us determines what "reality" is and is not? Science is quite excellent at measuring the materialistic subset of it, but when one gets into the subjective, phenomenological aspects of it (including complex matters like causality, human psychology, emergence, etc), science is not much help (and is even a hindrance to some degree I'd say, since a lot of people (but not all) seem to believe that science is the only lens through which reality can be viewed, and that it sees all of reality, or that which it does not see is irrelevant).
In fact, knowing as we do that psilocybin has a significant impact on reducing depression for months after a single dose - including for otherwise untreatable major depression - it sounds like those folks may have had some low-level baseline depressive symptoms. [edit] Not to the point of being clinical of course. [1]
> I assert it is detrimental. There is a "mystic" "spiritual" shift as well, that I really dont think is grounded in reality. Just because current science cant measure these changes dont mean they dont happen.
I hate to break this to you, but mysticism and spirituality isn't grounded in reality no matter what.
[edit] > I would also describe the effect as "loopy"
While high, totes. After, no so much.
[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...