Wired on how magic mushrooms rearrange the brain: In mathematical terms, said Petri, normal brains

Wired on how magic mushrooms rearrange the brain:

In mathematical terms, said Petri, normal brains have a well-ordered correlation state. There’s not much cross-linking between networks. That changes after the psilocybin dose. Suddenly the networks are cross-linking like crazy, but not in random ways. New types of order emerge.

NYT writing about Steve Jobs:

He told a reporter that taking LSD was one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life. He said there were things about him that people who had not tried psychedelics — even people who knew him well, including his wife — could never understand.