Psychedelic experience sources of some psychedelic drugs such as ayahuasca and mescaline-containing cacti are sometimes referred to as "plant teachers". Similarly, in a follow-up to the psilocybin and mysticism study at Johns Hopkins, researchers observed that psilocybin: "occasions personally and spiritually significant mystical experiences that predict long-term changes in behaviors, attitudes and values". Psychedelic experience includes the full range of mystical or religious experiential phenomena. Two scientific studies have concluded that psilocybin (a typical psychedelic compound that occurs naturally in psilocybin mushrooms) reliably triggers mystical-type experiences. The more recent study at Johns Hopkins University identified mystical experiences by means of several questionnaires
Gastonia (plant) Gastonia (plant) Gastonia is a formerly accepted genus of flowering plants in the ivy and ginseng family, Araliaceae. It had been known as an unnatural group, but was recognized as late as 2010, when its nine species were distributed to four different subgenera of the large genus "Polyscias". Because the genus "Gastonia" is now obsolete, its species are herein referred to by their names in "Polyscias". The species that constituted "Gastonia" are mostly island endemics, with Madagascar and New Guinea being the largest land masses on which any of them naturally occur. "Gastonia" had a disjunct distribution, with three species