Today I have a big announcement!
I have just published my second paper. Once again it is in the New Mind Journal. This paper is on Huachuma. To my knowledge this is the first ever published work brain imaging Huachuma whether it be EEGs, QEEGs, MRIs, SPECT scans or anything else. I think this is really cool! When I looked through the research and found that there has been so little done on San Pedro I thought this would be a great opportunity. We took 30 brain maps in all on ten people. Each person had a pre, a during, and a post brain map. This was a lot of data to process, but it was worth it in the end.
We continue to find interesting data points. From those who have tried plant medicines we know that they work but what exactly do they do? Well, that is a very complex question that involves consciousness and the human soul, it is a question that we will never be able to completely answer. This being said, QEEG brain mapping technology can be very effective at gleaning insight into different mechanisms that might be taking place. Neuroscience itself is a field still in its very early stages. How psychedelics affect the brain is even less well known. In fact, psychedelics seem to emphasize how little we know about brain function and even consciousness itself. What the neurofeedback community has gathered, and specifically my mentor Dr Richard Soutar, is that trauma seems to store itself in the brain in different ways. What we see in our brain mapping study is that the brain seems to move in a healthy direction when exposed to plant medicines. What this means is that the varying ways people’s brains are dysregulated, they seem to get better after the plant medicine experience. This may seem confusing, why would people’s brains all move in different directions but all appear to get healthier. The solution seems to be the trauma model set forth by Dr Soutar. When trauma is healed the brain begins to normalize, no matter where it starts from before. This is likely why we have so many different types of changes. More research must be done but I am very proud to do this preliminary research.
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