1960s documentary: Self-experimenting with magic mushrooms


	1960s documentary: Self-experimenting with magic mushrooms

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7-18-2008 5:23 AM

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John Newland ingests psilocybin under laboratory conditions, to investigate whether or not the hallucinogenic mushroom can enhance his abilities of extra-sensory perception.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8cf78d63-3ce8-49d6-8742-fc8c212e4b7b/49D7A58D-0231-4164-93AF-C7636D4FB4EC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php" href="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php" style="font-size: 11px;">scienceblogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php"><H2><A href="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php" id="a081963" linkindex="77" set="yes">1960s documentary: Self-experimenting with magic mushrooms</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php"><P class="categories">
				Category: <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/pharmacology/" linkindex="78">Pharmacology</A>
Posted on: July 17, 2008 10:11 AM, by <A href="" linkindex="79">Mo</A>
			</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php"><P class="lead">In the January 4th, 1961 episode of <EM>One Step Beyond</EM>, director and presenter John Newland ingests psilocybin under laboratory conditions, to investigate whether or not the hallucinogenic mushroom can enhance his abilities of extra-sensory perception.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php"><P>The programme was apparently inspired by a 1959 book called <EM>The Sacred Mushroom</EM>, by parapsychologist Andrija Puharich, who is known for taking the <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/12/us_military_psychic_spy_manual.php" linkindex="80">spoon-bending fraudster Uri Geller</A> to the United States for investigation.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php"><P>In the first part of the programme (embedded below), Newland, Puharich and others travel to Mexico to collect mushroom samples. They then return to Puharich's lab in Palo Alto, where Newland's ESP abilities are tested before and after ingestion of several mushroom stems.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fz7k00544PA&hl=en&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/07/selfexperimenting_with_magic_mushrooms.php"><P>Parts <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3NMqCij7cI&watch_response" linkindex="81">2</A> and <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9UyoFKgnIY&feature=related" linkindex="82">3</A> of the episode are also available on YouTube.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/49D7A58D-0231-4164-93AF-C7636D4FB4EC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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