There’s one thing each of us have in common, and that is that we all die eventually. During our final days, barring that our deaths aren’t sudden or accidental, a great deal of care goes into taking care of the person making the next big leap in life. And psilocybin, or “magic” mushrooms could play a part.
I know I know, it sounds like the fixins for a pretty rough trip, being near death and all. But as it turns out, people experience it as a very liberating experience and helps the user feel alive again, especially if they’ve been ill for a length of time.
“All of our subjects expressed a lot of gratitude that this opportunity was open to them,” says Dr. Charles Grob of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Near death, many of his patients had lost their sense of meaning and purpose. And this helped...
