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The psychological and human brain effects of music in combination with psychedelic drugs Mendel Kaelen 2017

“Music may be a human invention, but if so, it resembles the ability to make and control fire: it is something we invented that transforms human life. Indeed, it is more remarkable than fire making in some ways, because not only is it a product of our brain’s mental capacities, it also has the power to change the brain. It is thus emblematic of our species’ unique ability to change the nature of ourselves.”

Aniruddh D. Patel

This paper covers the interaction in the mind between music and psychedelic drugs. The paper is very science based as it was published to Imperial College London and includes a lot of tests that were done on patients that were given placebos and LSD and were tested with and without music.

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Title – The effects of Psychedelia with Sound.

Psychedelics have a profound effect on culture and the psyche. They have been prevalent within mainstream culture since the first synthesis of LSD by Albert Hoffman in 1938.

As psychedelic drugs are illegal and inaccessible in most countries this has made it impossible for scientists to do research on them as they cannot publish their papers.

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