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Thus, on a functional level, your meditation triggers the corresponding neurobiological networks that are responsible for eliciting health effects.

Abhijit Naskar
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​As the neurobiology of our species gets more and more complicated, its functional expression, which we call the mind, shall get more vivid and productive.

Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
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Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.

Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
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A Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world.

Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
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The Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology.

Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
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Methods of detoxifying and processing plants for human use are known throughout the world, and include a variety of techniques, including dehydration, application of heat, leaching, and fermentation, among others (Johns and Kubo 1988). While it is difficult to trace the origins of these methods, or to answer the questions of how certain groups learned to detoxify and process useful plants in their environment, to make a blanket claim that certain cultures were incapable of discovering plant properties, and the methods necessary for rendering them same and useful, seems naive at best.

John Rush, Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience
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Several centuries ago it was believed that the fly agaric, combined with the bufotenin–containing mucus of toads, was an ingredient of witches' brews, which made flying on their broomsticks possible. Even Santa Claus and Father Christmas are connected to Fly Agaric and their reindeer, which, by the way, like their portion of fly agarics and 'living' water.

John Rush, Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience
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The growth patterns of mushrooms are difficult to view since they come and go so quickly, appearing and disappearing overnight as if by magic. Their apparent lack of seed is another feature that was likely observed by early peoples who encountered them, perhaps providing further mystery as to the origin of the strange organisms.

John Rush, Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience
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Due to their soft bodies and ephemeral nature, it is unlikely that biological evidence of mushrooms will even be discovered in the archaeological record. This fact poses certain difficulties in determining the antiquity of modern cultural uses of psychoactive mushrooms, like those in Mexico and Siberia, and makes it even more difficult to determine whether psychoactive mushrooms were recognized and used by historical culture groups that are now extinct.

John Rush, Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience
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The effect of hallucinogenic mushrooms on the user's experience and behavior depends in part on his or her personality and genetic predisposition, which can vary to a great extent from person to person. As symptoms of psychiatric disorders can sometimes be elicited after one-off use, people with a genetic tendency to depression or psychosis should be discouraged from using psychoactive mushrooms.

John Rush, Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience
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