On the role of psychedelic drugs, mystical experiences, and "super placebo" effects in therapy (opens in new tab)

Mys­tics once spent years med­i­tat­ing in caves in search of tran­scen­dence. Today, a grow­ing num­ber of peo­ple believe some­thing sim­i­lar can be reached in a sin­gle after­noon with the help of a psy­che­del­ic drug. Swal­low a cap­sule of psilo­cy­bin or take a care­ful­ly super­vised dose of LSD and you may encounter what many describe as…