Psychedelic

The word psychedelic is a word invented in the 20th century by joining the Greek words for "mind," ψυχή (psyche), and "manifest," δήλος (delos).

A person in a "psychedelic state" is supposed to be able to feel new ways of looking at his mind that were unknown to him before. This can be caused by taking psychedelic drugs, like LSD. In medicine, the new feelings a patient has when he is in psychedelic state are called hallucinations and synesthesia; these are also seen in patients with psychosis.

Psychedelic Media

Synthetic mescaline. Normally biosynthesized from peyote and some other cacti, mescaline was the first psychedelic compound to be extracted and isolated.
Human 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) receptor 2A, G protein-coupledpredicted with SWISS-MODEL:*Arnold K., Bordoli L., Kopp J., and Schwede T. (2006). The SWISS-MODEL Workspace: A web-based environment for protein structure homology modeling. Bioinformatics, 22,195-201.
Doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
Free base N,N-DMT extracted from Mimosa hostilis root bark (left); vape cartridge made with freebase N,N-DMT extract (right)
Preparation of Ayahuasca, Province of Pastaza, Ecuador.
N,N-DMT
Structural formula of mescaline.
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
Psilocybin session at Johns Hopkins
Psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane in 1967

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