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title: ""Eight of the ten students receiving psilocybin reported a mystical…"
date: 2015-02-03
source: facebook
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# "Eight of the ten students receiving psilocybin reported a mystical…

*February 3, 2015 · Facebook*

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[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment){target="_blank"}
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\"Eight of the ten students receiving psilocybin reported a mystical experience, while only one in the control group experienced a feeling of "sacredness" and a "sense of peace." (Telling the subjects apart was not difficult, rendering the double-blind a somewhat hollow conceit: those on the placebo sat sedately in their pews while the others lay down or wandered around the chapel, muttering things like "God is everywhere" and "Oh, the glory!") \"
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