Psychedelics

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A psychedelic drug or classical hallucinogen is a substance whose primary action is to alter cognition and perception, typically as a serotonin receptor agonist,^[2] causing thought and visual/auditory changes, and heightened state of consciousness.^[3] Major psychedelic drugs include LSD, mescaline (peyote's active ingredient), DMT and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

迷幻藥物是指主要功效為改變認知與知覺的精神藥品，與游離藥品（dissociatives）、致譫妄藥三者因能誘發幻覺而包含在致幻劑這一門類下。相較興奮劑或鴉片類藥物等影響意識狀態效果較類似的藥物，迷幻藥物傾向於誘發心智產生與一般意識相比有定性差異的體驗。迷幻體驗通常與恍惚、冥想、瑜伽、宗教狂喜、夢境、甚至瀕死經驗等非通常意識狀態相比較。除了少數例外，大部分迷幻藥物成分為以下三者之一：色胺、苯乙胺、麥角酸胺。

迷幻藥物在大部分國家除了醫療外的用途是違法的。而除了常規使用外，迷幻藥物也常被用在娛樂用途。

Origin of term[edit]

The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή (psyche, "soul, mind") and δηλείν (delein, "to manifest"), hence "soul-manifesting", the implication being that psychedelics can access the soul and develop unused potentials of the human mind.^[6] The word was coined in 1956 by British psychiatrist, Humphry Osmond, the spelling loathed by American ethnobotanist, Richard Schultes, but championed by the American psychologist, Timothy Leary.^[7]

Aldous Huxley had suggested to Humphry Osmond in 1956 his own coinage phanerothyme (Greek "phaneroein-" visible + Greek "thymos" soul, thus "visible soul").^[8] Recently, the term entheogenic has come into use to denote the use of psychedelic drugs in a religious/spiritual/mystical context.

Psychedelics