Have you heard the saying about how you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? At Evolution Retreats, we believe that euphemism is obsolete!

A New Age, A New Era for Therapeutic Psilocybin

As we mature, our ability to learn and adjust to the ever-evolving nature of reality decreases. It’s common knowledge that natural human neuroplasticity slows to a crawl after around 25 years of age, with little differences depending on the individual’s lifestyle. It appears that we are evolutionarily hard-wired to know and completely comprehend our environment before we are 30.

The modern world is rapidly changing in a whirlwind of information. One hundred years ago, human beings were able to learn the information and skills required of them before they were 30 – and it would last them for a lifetime. Sons took up their fathers’ ways, and the world kept spinning. Now it seems like we are waking up to a different reality every few years. Professions rapidly change, some of them vanish. Scientific advancements take place at a breathtaking speed, social norms and traditions mutate, and the Internet acts as a global hive mind that is an embodiment of the constant flow and sum of the changes.

How can we keep up with such fast-paced change? Should we?

Is there a way to reignite neurological growth in adults?

Psychedelic Medicine – Trials on Psilocybin

Psilocybin is known for its neurogenerative qualities and profound effects on mental health and psychological support. There is no shortage of psilocybin research or data backing the practice of psychedelic therapy and the efficacy of its usage for many depressive symptoms. Outlined in the clinical trial presented here, this study indicates that a single dose of psilocybin leads to long-lasting increases in spine density and spine head width in the medial frontal cortex of the brain.

In simple terms, psilocybin is a psychedelic compound that allows the brain to rearrange its neural networks. What are those networks? It’s a human being – personality, experience, skills, memory, and so on. A single dose of psilocybin starts rapid and persistent growth of new connections in the brain, and it allows the brain to unlearn the traits no longer of use, as well as acquire new ones efficiently.

But it’s not only about the therapeutic effects of psilocybin. In the process of learning, dendritic spines formation and dendritic spines elimination are two equally important phenomena. This means that psilocybin only functions as a catalyst to the Evolution Retreats program, a compound that makes change possible. But the change starts long before drug administration, long before the actual effects of psilocybin.

Psilocybin Therapy Sessions – The Use of Psilocybin

In our program, we combine the natural neurotrophic qualities of psilocybin with therapeutic techniques, which allow our clients to realign with their in a benevolent manner. We offer “personality editing” in its most modern and powerful form. Is there a lingering memory that keeps you up at night? Do you suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder? With psilocybin-assisted therapy, you get the chance to cut the emotional ties to those painful past associations. Struggling with motivation to learn new skills and information? You get the chance to dismantle your inner obstacles in the way of your goals. The potential for change is only limited by your own imagination.

Upgrade yourself – the Evolution Retreats program offers you the ability to fine-tune your mind and realign yourself with your current state of affairs on your own terms.

Pretty exciting, right? Let’s get started on the path to You 2.0. Please begin our process by completing our application form.

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Evolution Retreats is not only working to be the destination in Jamaica for legal, guided psilocybin experiences and post-trip processing in a luxury resort setting – we’re also here to provide education, the latest research on mycotherapy (psilocybin mushrooms and more), and to be advocates for the powerful world of psychedelics and the possibilities for transformation therein.

We were delighted to recently come across reporting on the CNN website covering the largest study of its kind on the use and efficacy of psilocybin for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression – a malady that currently afflicts an estimated 100 million individuals globally. These people, from all walks of life, are not affected positively by anti-depressants and suffer with debilitating symptoms and even suicidal ideation. Researchers are hoping to find new treatment options to help this population, and psilocybin is looking promising as one such resource.

As the article explains:

“A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in people with a treatment-resistant form of the disease, a new study found.

The randomized, double-blind clinical trial, which authors called ‘the largest of its kind,’ compared results of a 25-milligram dose to a 10-milligram and 1-milligram dose of a synthetic psilocybin, COMP360, that was administered in the presence of trained therapists.

Results of the study, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, found ‘an immediate, fast, rapid-acting, sustained response to 25 milligrams (of COMP360),’ said study coauthor Dr. Guy Goodwin, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

‘This drug can be extracted from magic mushrooms, but that is not the way our compound is generated. It’s synthesized in a purely chemical process to produce a crystalline form,’ said Goodwin, who is the chief medical officer of COMPASS Pathways, the company that manufactures COMP360 and conducted the study.

Experts in the field found the study findings promising.”

We find it promising as well!

We do wish to point out that Evolution Retreats doesn’t support the idea that psilocybin needs to be “synthesized” and sold in a pharmaceutical package. We don’t support corporate attempts to “reinvent” psilocybin. The molecule is perfect as-is, it doesn’t need editing. The “betterment” of a naturally occurring compound, honed and polished by evolutionary processes over tens of thousands of years, is a laughable jest – yet another corporate attempt to restrict the free market. The only reason corporations are trying to “reinvent” psychedelics is because they want to have exclusive rights to the compounds and to their therapeutic results, thus creating an abundant and completely isolated market for themselves to control. (GMOs, anyone?) Luckily for us, and for you, markets do not work this way.

Even with the caveats that this study was conducted using a synthetic version of psilocybin as opposed to the natural version that we cultivate for our psychedelic retreats, and that the study was conducted by the company that is manufacturing the synthetic psilocybin – it is still very exciting and offers future hope for individuals with serious depression issues. Bravo, keep it coming! At least Big Pharma paid for the encouraging study!

Please read the full CNN article and watch their video by following this link.
Interested in learning more about Evolution Retreats and our use of “magic mushrooms” for personal transformation? You can lean about our approach and how we work with all our guests, meet our guides and facilitators, or get started with the application process by completing our form. Thanks for reading!