Or Silly Siben as I found it to be called at the "Hongo" capital of the world at the Mayan ruins in Palenque, Mexico. So named because the day following the experience ones’ cheeks and the sides ached from all the smiling and laughing from the day before. A turkey falling off the overhead into your lap or colors Mexicans choose to paint just about everything can set one off into 10 minutes of uncontrolled laughter. When it happens one soon learns the word "Hongo" as the locals say as they point at the gringos gone silly.
Those in this study said the experience – once called "tripping" – was that they said the experience as one of the five most important in their lives. Who knew! Well besides just about everyone who went to a Moody Blues or Pink Floyd concert in the late 60s or early 70s…
This article follows a terminal cancer patient through the process which he claimed not only cured his depression, but changed his life for the better in many other ways.
We reported pretty much the same thing back in 2008 here with a John Hopkins study finding it very positive to their lives! Psilocybin is good for you!
What I found surprising in this article was no mention of Aldous Huxley who not only went over all this in his classic non fiction book "The Doors of Perception" (1954), and his last work of fiction "Island" but also took LSD a few hours before he passed away in bed in 1963.
This reminds me of those enlightening articles we see each year where we learn that college students often drink too often and too much at once! Which everyone who has gone to college for more than a week has known to be the case since Socrates was conducting classes…