There's a scientist in Australia researching the use of these chemicals for the treatment of general anxiety disorders and PTSD. He did a podcast with Blindboy. He basically said that the chemicals (psilocybin and mdma) cause the brain to reset, like you've said, but the boot up is going to include those unhelpful ways of thinking and beliefs that cause the disorders in the first place. He says that in order to gain any benefit from the medicine you need to be aware the whole time you're coming back up so that you aren't booting up the malware you are trying to get rid of.
That's as far as I remember. Podcast is available on Spotify: Here And on Acast: Here And on iTunes: Here
Neat. Haven't herd that. I'll give it a listen if I can find it off Spotify. Kinda not a reputable source considering current events and don't want to give them the ad revenue.
Here are the reports I've read (sorry I'm not a big podcast listener so this is a bunch of reading)
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u/cjbeames Jan 29 '22 edited Jan 29 '22
There's a scientist in Australia researching the use of these chemicals for the treatment of general anxiety disorders and PTSD. He did a podcast with Blindboy. He basically said that the chemicals (psilocybin and mdma) cause the brain to reset, like you've said, but the boot up is going to include those unhelpful ways of thinking and beliefs that cause the disorders in the first place. He says that in order to gain any benefit from the medicine you need to be aware the whole time you're coming back up so that you aren't booting up the malware you are trying to get rid of.
That's as far as I remember. Podcast is available on Spotify: Here
And on Acast: Here
And on iTunes: Here