[HN Gopher] What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
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       What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2025-06-16 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | quantified wrote:
       | Pretty much nothing of substance in the writeup. All about
       | studying and flaws.
        
       | worik wrote:
       | See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment
        
         | worik wrote:
         | I am no fan of Timothy Leary, I think he put the cause of
         | Psychedelics back decades. He was also a very flawed
         | researcher, which effected this study.
         | 
         | Nevertheless, it was ground breaking for 1962 and had a huge
         | impact.
         | 
         | Not so significant in the twenty first century.
        
       | bravesoul2 wrote:
       | > Almost a decade ago, a Baptist Biblical scholar, a Catholic
       | priest, several rabbis, an Islamic leader, a Zen Buddhist roshi,
       | and more than a dozen other religious leaders walked into a lab--
       | and took high doses of magic mushrooms.
       | 
       | Wild. Maybe what the world needs.
        
         | BitwiseFool wrote:
         | Quite frankly, that quote sounds like the premise of some new
         | Netflix original series.
        
       | readthenotes1 wrote:
       | "William James, considered the father of American psychology
       | ...., is said to have to come to many of his own most central
       | ideas at least in part through hallucinatory experiences with
       | nitrous oxide"
       | 
       | That's a pretty good explainer for psychology. We have a Coke
       | addled Freud who is the father of it all and another drug abuser
       | shepherding the USA.
       | 
       | I wonder how many people have tried to replicate their
       | experiments and succeeded?
        
         | kevinsync wrote:
         | Yeah, keep in mind that significant abuse of the drugs
         | mentioned are, uh, let's say, prone to inflating the ego rather
         | than killing it and showing a different path.
         | 
         | Kinda fills in some unspoken gaps about the 'discipline' of
         | psychology...
        
           | hsbauauvhabzb wrote:
           | Can you explain this for those of us with minimal background
           | in psychology? Is there a substantial amount of pseudoscience
           | in modern psychology, or just historically?
        
         | clipsy wrote:
         | > That's a pretty good explainer for psychology. We have a Coke
         | addled Freud who is the father of it all and another drug
         | abuser shepherding the USA.
         | 
         | Now do tech CEOs
        
       | caycep wrote:
       | a corollary is - can a clergy still practice if implanted with a
       | neuromodulator device, i.e. deep brain stimulation, for epilepsy,
       | or Parkinson's, or depression?
        
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