…dvocacy group, the Beckley Foundation, funds psychedelic research at universities around the world. “Our research shows that psychedelics can make people more connected to nature and less authoritarian, and I have no doubt that they can have a positive effect on the world as a whole,” she says.
sts measuring authoritarian political tendencies. The …er on tests for nature-relatedness and lower on tests measuring authoritarian political tendencies. The results suggest structured psilocybin sessions can produce what the authors describe as “lasting changes in attitudes and beliefs” in the direction of greener, more tolerant politics.