The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Psychedelics traditionally, whether it was Iawaska or psilocybin, were taken in the context of a ceremony where you had a shaman who through chanting or drum beats or whatever it might be created a situation where the body was very relaxed and felt safe.
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And so you have the shaman with you. You have the experience of ego death. You see whatever you're going to see and that person helps you reintegrate that and make sense of it.
Dave the one thing that's really important when you take psilocybin is you have to feel supremely safe because when that moment of self-dissolution comes or ego death comes it can be beautiful or it can be terrifying and if you don't feel safe it can go the wrong way.