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An article from the 60’s on LSD and the ‘third eye’, or more accurately, the role of serotonin in psychedelic states
22 Jan 2022
An article from the 60’s on LSD and the ‘third eye’, or more accurately, the role of serotonin in psychedelic states.
the mystery of the LSD-serotonin antagonism persisted. Serotonin is not an unusual chemical in nature; it is found in many places–some of them odd, like the salivary glands of octopuses; others ordinary: it abounds in plants; bananas, figs, plums are especially rich in it. What was it doing in the brains of humans? What was its evolutionary history? In 1958 a Yale Medical School professor of dermatology named Aaron B. Lerner published a paper on the pineal gland which placed this elusive substance in some vague kind of historical perspective and provided for it a real functional role in the brains of mammals.
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