Philosophy Wire: One time dose.

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Following up on their landmark 2016 study, researchers found that a one-time, single-dose treatment of psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, combined with psychotherapy appears to be associated with significant improvements in emotional and existential distress in cancer patients. [1] But it’s not only that mushroom. It is not only that drug. It’s not only that awful experience. It is not only that happy moment. It is everything. For there is nothing which does not affect us. Would you eat that mushroom if you hadn’t had cancer? Would you have cancer if you hadn’t been born? Would you die if you hadn’t lived? Look at that mushroom again. It is not just a mushroom. It is the cosmos itself. Ready to devour you…

(To be born once more...)

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