{"id":76905,"date":"2022-08-13T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wholecelium.com\/?p=76905"},"modified":"2023-11-12T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:24:29","slug":"psykedeelien-ja-aistivoiman-ulkopuolisten-havaintojen-valinen-salaperainen-yhteys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholecelium.com\/fi\/blog\/the-mysterious-link-between-psychedelics-and-extrasensory-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Psykedeelien ja aistitiedon ulkopuolisten havaintojen v\u00e4linen salaper\u00e4inen yhteys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You might have extrasensory perception (ESP)<\/a><\/strong> triggered by full-on doses of psychedelics, such as psilocybin<\/a><\/strong> from magic mushrooms and truffles. It\u2019s a phenomenon often seen in those who enjoy the hardcore psychonaut<\/a><\/strong> lifestyle. This lifestyle often aligns with paranormal or non-materialist beliefs. Believe it or not, the mysterious link between psychedelics and ESP has been studied by world-renowned experts for decades. Not just by hippie psychics, mind you, but also by scientists in the field of psychedelics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, where does the tendency for ESP come from? Are the visions, sounds, and feelings real<\/em>, or are they just a placebo effect from the hallucinogenic high? Does the have something to do with opening your mind to higher planes of existence?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s only one way to find out\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Genie\u2019s Bottle<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Michael Pollan, author of the bestselling How to Change Your Mind<\/em> which served as the basis for the eponymous Netflix docuseries<\/a><\/strong>, revealed a magical, extrasensory experience while he was on a shroom trip. He started to see the plants in his garden as \u201cpersons\u201d full of life, as he shared in an interview with The New Statesman<\/em>:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the first time, I felt the presence of these plants. They were more alive than they had ever been.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollan\u2019s experience while on magic mushrooms is hardly rare. It is common for trippers to report paranormal events after taking such mind-altering compounds. David Luke, a psychologist at Greenwich University, studied surveys of people who took psychedelics. He saw that those who bumped into psi phenomena<\/a><\/strong> ranged from 18 to 83 percent. The most common category of which was telepathy. Others reported knowing an event before it happens, aka precognition<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luke wrote in his book Other Worlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs psychedelics become more mainstream, we are opening up the breadth of the population who are getting access to them. Once you take the cork out of the genie\u2019s bottle, we cannot ignore these kinds of experiences.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telepathic Pioneers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What is telepathy, exactly?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word itself derives from the Greek word tele<\/em>, which means \u201cfrom a distance\u201d, and patho<\/em>s, which means \u201cfeeling\u201d. As a term, telepathy <\/em>was coined in the 1880s by Frederick Myers, a British classicist who co-founded the Society for Psychical Research in London. Myers was intrigued by several case studies of near-death people who reported being able to talk with loved ones from far away. He would then visit the said loved ones to confirm that they got the \u201cmind-letters\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then, it wasn\u2019t strange for psychedelic scholars to be vocal about their interest in what lies beyond the visible world. The list of pioneers who were also deeply into psi phenomena includes Timothy Leary, Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Ken Kesey, Gordon Wasson, Humphry Osmond, Al Hubbard, Stanislav Grof, and Walter Pahnke, among other famous figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luke wrote in his book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPretty much all of the first discoverers, explorers, and encounters with psychedelics, they all had their own kind of paranormal-like experience. The literature is replete with this.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of those earliest researchers and explorers were all very much on board with the idea of psychedelics inducing genuine psychic experiences.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One theory by the British philosopher Gerald Heard, who belonged to the Society for Psychical Research, pushed that all of humanity once had telepathic powers a long, long time ago. When modern civilization came in, these abilities started to fade and then vanish. Heard wrote that we would regain these skills when society enters a New Age of Being \u2014 a renaissance, if you will.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psilocybin and Telepathy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Anna Lutkajtis, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Sydney, there are two main ways for people to experience telepathy while on psychedelics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n