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3500 BCE
Mushrooms
Rock surfaces painted in Tossilli Plateau, frescoes of mushroom holding shamans with cattle. -
2000 BCE
Mushroom discovery
Psilocybe (psychedelic/mystical) mushrooms discovered and used by shamans. -
1000
Ayahuasca
1000 year old shamanic pouch was found in 2019 in a Bolivian cave. Ayahuasca is used as a brew used for traditional spiritual medicine with psychoactive effects. -
1000
Peyote discovery
Peyote, a cactus aka “Divine messenger” was discovered and used by Indian shamans. -
Lsd discovery
Lsd was discovered by a scientist named Albert Hoffman in 1938. Lsd is a chemical that is found in a fungus called Ergot. -
Lsd therapy
Between 1950-1965 over a thousand pages of psychedelic research were published and over 40,000 patients went through lsd therapy. -
Psychedelics made illegal
In 1970 mescaline, mushrooms, peyote, cannabis, DMT, MDA and lsd became schedule 1 drugs left unavailable for research. -
Interesting study
A study at John Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland a private university showed that mushrooms can induce mystical experience having substantial and sustained persons meaning and spiritual significance. -
Michael Pollan writes a book about psychedelics
In 2018 Michael Pollan wrote a book called “How to change your mind” providing us with research information, and tells his first hand experiences trying different psychedelics. -
Psychedelic comeback
49 years after lsd and other psychedelics were first banned and unavailable for research, in 2019 its finally making a comeback. The only research we have to this date is mostly what was studied at John Hopkins and other privately run research underground.
