02/07/2026
Here are 5 things worth understanding about neuroplasticity and why 🍄 journeys have a transformative effect on our brains.
1/ Your brain is not fixed. For a long time we thought the brain you had as an adult was basically the brain you were stuck with. The patterns laid down in childhood, the neural pathways built through years of experience, the wiring that determines how you respond to things. We now know that is not true. The brain retains the ability to form new connections and restructure itself based on new experience across your entire life. That capacity is called neuroplasticity.
2/ Under ordinary circumstances, that capacity is limited. The brain is efficient. It prefers the routes it already knows. Every time you respond to a situation the same way you have always responded to it, the existing pathway gets more established and the chance of a different response gets smaller.
3/ 🍄 can temporarily opens that window. They quieten the default mode network, the part responsible for your sense of self, your internal narrative and your usual ways of processing experience. In that quieter state, the brain enters a period of increased neuroplasticity. Dendritic spines, the tiny structures that form connections between neurons, have been shown to increase in density by around 10% in the prefrontal cortex after a single dose, with changes persisting for at least a month.
4/ New connections become available that were not available before. Patterns that felt completely fixed start to feel workable, sometimes for the first time.
5/ What happens in the days and weeks after the ceremony matters just as much as the experience itself. The neuroplasticity window stays open. The brain is unusually receptive during that period, and what you do in it determines how much of the change actually sticks. This is why integration is a key part of the experience.
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