A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin (2019) [Full Documentary]

A New Understanding explores the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in some mushrooms, to facilitate deeply spiritual experiences. The documentary explores the confluence of science and spirituality in the first psychedelic research studies since the 1970s with terminally ill patients.

As a society we devote a great deal of attention to treating cancer, but very little to treating the human being who is dying of cancer. The recent resurgence of psychedelic research is once again revealing the power of compounds like psilocybin to profoundly alter our understanding of both life and death. Through the eyes of patients, their loved ones, therapists, and researchers, A New Understanding examines the use of psilocybin in a controlled setting to reduce psychospiritual anxiety, depression, and physical pain.

The treatment aims to help the patient understand that a 'good' death is possible, and to help the patient's family deal well with the dying process. A New Understanding shows patients and their families coming to terms with dying through the skillful treatment of the whole human being. If we can learn to work more skillfully with dying, we will also learn to take better care of life.

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[Josytt]

Psilocybin mushrooms were the only thing that got me out of my suicidal depression, I also saw a red energy exiting my body which I can’t explain. I had inflammatory bowl disease which disappeared after the trip. There’s a lot more to psychedelics then we realise. But I owe my life to that one profound experience, afterwards I felt like I just had 100 years of therapy and released all the emotional shit locked up in my body from the past. They really should be doing these sessions out in nature, it’s so much more powerful... get these people out of a indoor hospital like environment & out into the powerful healing energy from nature.

[LoganWayne-bo]

My recovery journey was greatly enhanced by the therapeutic benefits of mushrooms. Other psychedelics like DMT and LSD have also proven to be remarkable.

[neon-yxvc]

When I was in my late teens, my mother died, after struggling with cancer for years. Taking Psi slowed things down. When I talked her into smoking cannabis, she gained 30 lbs. Psilocybin grew a few blocks from my house. After having a botanist teach us how to identify them, we'd go shroom hunting, We'd all have big bags of them, dry them out and find creative ways to combine different strains. She lived much longer than anyone thought. We made wonderful recipes with them. The flavor was subtle but distinct.

[AllyWhiteArtist]

Why not allow the epiphanies BEFORE someone gets ill? Why can't everyone have spiritual understanding? Shouldn't this be one of the first gifts a young adult receives? Why just treat depression and anxiety? Couldn't this potentially PREVENT depression in the first place?

[danielbrown]

DMT, Mescaline and Psilocybin are portals for consciousness to connect with the other side. I love them.

[gattiyon]

*R.I.P.* Matt & Annie.Great documentary.

[shu-hualuo]

How inspiring! Being a Chinese, I eat lots of mushrooms regularly, but never realize the magic behind them until this past few weeks. How lucky we are to have so many experts giving these (psychedelic mushroom) lectures and podcast and make them available on YouTube for everyone. Like the virus, these information are spreading in the speed of light!

[davidsabo]

i just hope as many people can see this documentary as possible

[jdub]

Legalize recreational psilocybin mushrooms!

[Rahel]

It makes me cry hearing these testimonies.

[rekless]

Something this positive is a risk to pharmaceutical industry
We don't need approval from governments
If you approve that's enough.

[MrSchweppes]

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
― Terence McKenna

[geraldmiller]

I've heard a lot of tripping stories, and they are very exciting, i would love to try magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??

[kiyana]

I'm starting my journey into healing, by feeding my mind w/ as much knowledge as I can. Great documentary!

[cerebral-liberty]

Banning any medicine is a crime against humanity.

[lomigreen]

It’s truly heart warming that so many people want to help.

[kirillzapple]

The entire matrix of this world is build around human brain and human instinct, and a single mushroom, how small and fragile it looks, has the potential to dimolish it complitly. 😅

[rwharrington]

45:13 - so well said. It feels extremely cliche and shallow trying to describe the experience in words. It is only done justice if the person on the receiving end has had a relatable experience. We just don't vocabulary to accurately describe something so profound and transformative.

[cthecav]

It makes me so sad that this miraculous compound had been shunned from mainstream society

[Aum_shantishantishanti]

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day ! The benefits to me are more profound than little words can convey . Open up people .. it’s a good thing . Connections being made and conveyed through this beautiful plant teacher .