What are Hallucinogens

What Hallucinogens Do

For years humanity has wondered whether or not there is another state of mind or even after life. The answer to their questions may lie in mother nature herself.

Most Hallucinogenic drugs make people think that its a modern day drug that had to be chemically enhanced in order to make people trip. The actual truth about this type of drug is that its been around ever since ancient times, many psychedelic chemicals are found in mushrooms, fungi, and even plant roots and bark. Due to their long history of availability throughout the ages, these plants have been used in rituals and spiritual voyages. These chemicals vaporize the walls that stand between reality and spiritual world, and usually are life changing to the individual. Its still unclear of what exactly occurs in the brain when this drug enters your system. One of the few things we do know is that that these chemicals disrupt communication between neurotransmitters. This blocks all the information and communication between your brain and spinal cord. This doesn't mean that you no longer can walk or that you'll be temporarily paralyzed, this means that all your thoughts and emotions well be out of the "norm" due to the psychedelic chemicals that have entered the nervous system.

   Today, we are learning more about how these drugs work in our systems.  There are many theories to what hallucinogens really do and exactly how
they work in the brain. The common belief amongst most scientists is that the psychedelic chemicals from LSD, Mushrooms, and other hallucinogenic agents block of the neurotransmitters the are throughout your body. These constant signals are being shot out of the brain every second of every day, they're basically responsible for reality as we know it. The psychedelic chemicals are able to block off the signals, giving the individual altered states of mind and make them feel as if they're out of the reality they know and are so familiar with. Your sense of touch in particular is supported by the the main highway of nerves and information from the brain, the spinal cord. If a high dosage is taken, these chemicals can even block of the sense of touch, if this occurs then the individual well have absolute loss of actual reality, they are now in their own world and really do believe that they're no longer physically present in the world. Most hallucinogenic trips last from 5 hours to 24 hours, depending on how much somebody would take. The main sense acid mostly affects is the eye sight of a person, its also mostly noticeable due to the individuals pupal dilating. The psychedelic chemicals alter the patterns in which your pupil receives light from the outside world, theres no longer that constant pattern out light bouncing of from receptor to receptor. The space between each receptor changes and they all begin to vibrate and move around, this is what is believed to make people hallucinate and see colors and shapes more vividly.

The research into psychedelic continues and in Brazil researchers are starting to use hallucinogens as therapy.  In this blog I will be researching types of hallucinogens, debates around the long-term effects of the drugs and the potential for these drugs to connect with alternative states of being.