Cancer rates are on the rise worldwide, which means that in coming generations more and more people will have their lives turned inside out with a diagnosis, and with having to turn their attention to battling this new plague. The psychological effects of having your world turned on its so quickly can be devastating, and often put people in a depressed, anxious and negative emotional state.
With so many types of cancers affecting people these days, there is no such thing as a single cure for cancer, because each type is different and will respond to different remedies. Finding the miracle cure often requires an intense search, deviation from standard doctor’s recommendations, a huge investment of time and money, and tremendous amount of hope, belief and faith. Not everything works for every cancer, but, some things consistently aid in the struggle with all cancers, like the right diet, appropriate exercise, and a proper mental attitude and outlook.
Having a positive mental outlook may, or may not, actually help one survive cancer, but without question, having a positive disposition while battling cancer makes the battle easier and can help one to be more accepting of any outcome, including the possibility of losing the battle.
Few things are available to cancer patients to help them achieve and maintain a state of positive acceptance, free from the anxiety, fear, melancholy and despair that ordinarily accompany this struggle. However, science has repeatedly confirmed that psilocybin mushrooms, and synthetic psilocybin, offer provable psychological benefits in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and the dark moods associated with coming to grips with terminal illness and one’s certain death.
A Typical Psilocybin ‘Trip’
Here is an interesting and detailed account of a clinical psilocybin ‘trip’ taken by a 27 year old leukemia patient who had suffered through years of traumatic chemotherapy before undergoing a clinical trial of the effects of psilocybin:
“‘Good luck,’ Ross said, handing
Fernandez the pill, which he washed down with water that he drank from a
large antique chalice. Then he slipped on the headphones, put on a face
mask to block out the light, lay down on the couch and waited.
About an hour later, as the drug began to
take effect, the blackness inside his head turned into an onrushing
cascade of white dots that swiftly morphed into a kaleidoscope of
geometric patterns – gears, stars, triangles, trapezoids – in all the
colours of the rainbow. He started to hear an insistent voice in his
head, telling him over and over: ‘I’m going to show you what I can do.’
Fernandez slowly suspended his skepticism and reluctantly surrendered to
the experience. What he perceived to be his spirit guide took him on a
Marley’s ghost-style journey, with stops at his own funeral, a hellish
place littered with skulls that smelled of death where he was in
excruciating pain. Once his agony reached an almost unbearable
crescendo, his spirit guide catapulted him through hundreds of light
years of space, allowing him to escape the pain. ‘I went into this
mystical state, and this intense visual palate took over my mind,’
Fernandez said.
He suddenly found himself in Grand
Central Terminal, which was filled with hundreds of people he knew
dressed in tuxedos and ball gowns, dancing happily to symphonic music.
He spied his girlfriend, Claire, across the dance floor. They walked
towards each other and embraced, which filled him with intense feelings
of bliss and joy. Soon he was again catapulted, down into the sewers of
the city, and then to the top of the Empire State Building where he
serenely surveyed the city just as dawn broke its rosy glow over the
skyscrapers. The spirit guide took him from there to a cave in the
forest where he went shopping for another body, but the only body to be
had was his own. This realisation gave Fernandez a new appreciation of
his body, and all it had been through: the workouts, the swims, the bike
rides, the sickness when the cancer cells had taken over, and the
chemotherapy drugs that had destroyed them. ‘For the first time in my
life, I felt like there was a creator of the universe, a force greater
than myself, and that I should be kind and loving,’ he said. ‘Something
inside me snapped and I experienced a profound psychic shift that made
me realise all my anxieties, defences and insecurities weren’t something
to worry about.’” [Source]
This description is rather common and fairly consistent in terms of
how the psychological effects of ingesting this natural substance can
have on the mind and spirit.It is easy to understand how an experience like this can help someone get out from under an emotional pattern of doom and gloom, and move into a mental space with more freedom to feel ‘healed,’ and be more accepting of one’s fate. The experience can give people a real and genuine opportunity to let go of negative patterns of thought, because it can in very real terms help people see through the veil of material life, into the spiritual dimensions, often drawing information and insight about life that simply cannot be garnered in any other way.
Psilocybin and Depression
Recently, the results of a John Hopkins study into the effects of psilocybin on depression were released, and the results were quite revealing, pointing directly to the fact that the experience to be found in a few hours of a medically administered ‘trip’ can have profound and long-lasting psychological benefits in many people.
“The researchers were personally
unfamiliar with psychedelic experiences, and they had expected increased
frontal lobe activity. Frontal lobes are the brain parts used in day to
day conscious activity and thinking, and excess frontal lobe activity
is common among those who are depressed. Instead, things slowed down,
both under MRI scrutiny and from study subjects’ feedback.
The subjects were advised to look inward.
To help turn their attention away from medical machinery, they were
usually given blindfolds and headsets piping in pleasant music. Around
60% of the subjects reported mystical experiences while all of them felt
they were in a strange but pleasant world. And they all experienced a
greater degree of openness, awareness, or empathy.
Here are the study results:
- 83% given the higher doses of psilocybin said they felt greater well-being
- 89% reported improvements in their behavior
- 94% ranked the experience as one of the most “spiritually significant” in their lives
- None of the subjects went crazy despite their prior inexperience with psychedelics
“Under supportive conditions, 20 and 30 mg/70 kg psilocybin occasioned mystical-type experiences having persisting positive effects on attitudes, mood, and behavior. Implications for therapeutic trials are discussed.”” [Source]...
Read more: Waking Times
http://www.earth-heal.com/news/news/71-cancer-prevention/2136-medical-mushrooms.html
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