{"id":25111,"date":"2019-04-30T05:31:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25111"},"modified":"2019-04-30T05:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:31:02","slug":"a-trip-into-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/30\/a-trip-into-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip into history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting, if rather preliminary, article in <em>Scientific American<\/em> this week, on new research which asks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/do-microdoses-of-lsd-change-your-mind\/\">Do Microdoses of LSD Change Your Mind?<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So what\u2019s riding on these studies? For those that are already convinced of microdosing\u2019s powers, probably not much. But quite a lot is at stake for our broader understanding of the brain and the potential for drugs \u2014 LSD or otherwise \u2014 to enhance cognitive abilities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is potentially also of interest to historians of the supernatural, in relation to the debate among scientists and historians about <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/scholar?hl=en&amp;q=witchcraft%20ergot\">the possible role of natural hallucinogens present in food<\/a> during the historic &#8216;witchcraft&#8217; outbreaks, re: the impact on the general population and their susceptibility to such wild claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting, if rather preliminary, article in Scientific American this week, on new research which asks Do Microdoses of LSD &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/30\/a-trip-into-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}