psychoactive
Speech parts
1. psychoactive - Noun
2. psychoactive - Adjective
Meaning
affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes
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This self-experiment showed that LSD-25 behaved as a psychoactive substance with extraordinary properties and potency.
Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.
I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.
Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that direction, and the use of psychoactive drugs clearly is one path that has helped many people.
The question wasn't whether moving psychoactive alien seedpods between worlds was a good idea so much as whether someone was going to lose face in front of a committee meeting. Thus were the great decisions of history made.
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