Magic mushrooms
Click here for a video of a "One Step Beyond" TV program from 1961 in which the host eats a magic mushroom and then conducts an ESP test.
Skeptic agrees that remote viewing is proven
Excerpt from a January 2008 item in the UK's The Daily Mail newspaper: In 1995, the US Congress asked two independent scientists to assess whether the $20 million that the government had spent on psychic research had produced anything of value. And the conclusions proved to be somewhat unexpected. Professor Jessica Utts, a statistician from the University of California, discovered that remote viewers were correct 34 per cent of the time, a figure way beyond what chance guessing would allow. She says: "Using the standards applied to any other area of science, you have to conclude that certain psychic phenomena, such as remote viewing, have been well established. "The results are not due to chance or flaws in the experiments." Of course, this doesn't wash with sceptical scientists. Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, refuses to believe in remote viewing. He says: "I agree that by the standards of any other area ...
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Have there been any published studies in ESP using hallucinogens?
This reminds me of someone I met in Australia who told me he had an OBE after taking a large dose of LSD. Quite remarkable really. He told of how one minute he seemed to be losing all sense of structured reality and the next minute there he was, outside his body experiencing things as vividly and as coherently as the normal waking state. From that position he observed his two friends carry his body out into the back yard and place him underneath a tree since he appeared unconscious to them at the time. He 'came round' underneath the tree and told them what had happened. No real indication of ESP, but I think its interesting that taking hallucinogens can lead to different but coherent experiences in addition to, well, not so coherent ones...
Dean, perhaps you should try a little ESP research in Amsterdam!
It's like combining the two most taboo topics together into one outrageous bundle of cultural heresy!
Nevertheless, I think there is much to learn about psi in altered states, so I'm cautiously exploring ways of gaining approval to do psi experiments with psychedelics, legally.
Aren't there certain areas in the USA which may have legalized/decriminalized cannabis? Perhaps even just for "medical" reasons etc? Over here in the UK they are doing a lot of research with psychedelics again, especially with ibogaine and psiloybin, for example on terminally ill cancer patients (to alleviate depression/anxiety), or as addiction breakers etc.
Do you know Dr.Rick Strassman (famous for the New Mexico DMT studies)? Perhaps he might be able to help you navigate the tense legal minefield that surrounds these things.
http://m0134.fmg.uva.nl/publications/2000/psychotropic_GF.pdf
for an experiment examining the effects of a psychedelic on psi performance under controlled conditions.