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
Stapelia hirsuta Stapelia hirsuta Stapelia hirsuta, common name starfish flower or carrion plant, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Apocynaceae. The genus epithet "Stapelia" was named in honour of Johannes van Stapel, who described the first plant discovered, while the species name derives from the Latin “hirsutus”, meaning "hairy”. "Stapelia hirsuta" stems are subquadrangular and about high. Concave groves run vertically along the stems, between their four angles. This feature distinguishes "S. hirsuta" from many other "Stapelia" species with which it naturally co-occurs (e.g. "Stapelia rufa", "Stapelia engleriana"), and which typically have stems which are also subquadrangular, but