in the 1950s, showed signs of therapeutic potential or value in research into the nature of consciousness and sensory perception. “Human consciousness…is a function of the ebb and flow of neural impulses in various regions of the brain-the very substrate that drugs such as psilocybin act upon,” Schuster says. “Understanding what mediates these effects is clearly within the realm of neuroscience and deserves investigation.”

“A vast gap exists between what we know of these drugs-mostly from descriptive anthropology-and what we believe we can understand using modern clinical pharmacology techniques,” says study leader Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor with Hopkins’ departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Biology. “That gap is large because, as a reaction to the excesses of the 1960s, human research with hallucinogens has been basically frozen in time these last forty years.”

Interesting, the author Graham Hancock explores the same themes in his book "Supernatural" (it's not quite as 'out there' as his other books); http://www.grahamhancock.com/supernatural/

They should secretly feed people with these mushrooms...

Well noted, Judge

Time to hit the pastures and look for some shroomies

Unfortunately, the only affect I ever got from mushrooms was an intense and prolonged case of flatulence; I think I cleared the house.