ist gott eine droge oder haben wir sie falsch verstanden?
Verfasst: 20. Mai 2009, 17:53
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =104240746
erster teil einer 5 teiligen serie.The lighting is low, the carpeting plush. There's a cross on the wall, a statue of Buddha, a Shinto shrine. In the middle of the room is a sofa where volunteers can lie down after they've ingested a capsule of psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in mushrooms. Griffiths, a neuro-pharmacologist, is the lead investigator in the first major study of drugs and spirituality since the 1970s.... Griffiths says that when he took up meditation 15 years ago, he began thinking differently about the nature of reality. He wondered: What if he could study what happens to the brain when people enjoy spiritual experiences? Griffiths recruited 36 people. They were all middle-aged and stable, had an active spiritual practice — whether Christian, Jewish or other — and were willing to take the trip of their lives.