Mind from the Inside

[Arkilogue]

It's one thing to go on a trip.  It's another to bring something useful back, right?

I know a lot of guys who thought they discovered some deep truth while stoned, and that they'd managed to write some of it down in a notebook.  More often than not, they had something like, "The universe is an egg!  That's the key!" or whatever.

On the other hand, I know a lot of artists and musicians who used drugs to shake up their minds and keep getting new angles at which to look at things.  I mean. . . name a really great rock band whose members never did drugs, right?

You have a point. There are times in my life where I've been stuck on something, and while I was stoned considered a solution I hadn't previously been able to think of. What's the science behind the "open-minded" side effect of cannabis?

Probably similarly to LSD just different regions of the brain are communicating in real time.

But the best would probably be psilocybin.

http://www.livescience.com/48502-magic-m...works.html
The active ingredient in the psychedelic drug, psilocybin, seems to completely disrupt the normal communication networks in the brain, by connecting "brain regions that don't normally talk together," said study co-author Paul Expert, a physicist at King's College London.




My answer would be, the "open minded" effect is due to cross-communicating regions of the brain that "normally" don't, giving a larger collection of processors in sync, applicable to what ever you cast you mind upon, inwards or outwards.

The only reason it affects the brain is because it's built to receive and act upon similar molecules either found in the environment or internaly produced. Also; neurons that fire together tend to wire together....there may be a similar capacity between brain regions/organs magnetically, increasing coherency.