Psilocybin

Jason Bermas on the CIA's experiments with Psilocybin.

They used Psilocybin in Hollywood in 1968 to make movies about God, according to this piece in the New Yorker! 😂❤️💓💕 On the making of Kubrick's 2001:

For the final section of the film, “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite,” Ordway, the film’s scientific consultant, read up on a doctoral thesis on psychedelics advised by Timothy Leary. Theology students had taken psilocybin, then attended a service at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel to see if they’d be hit with religious revelations. They dutifully reported their findings: most of the participants had indeed touched God. Such wide-ranging research was characteristic of Clarke and Kubrick’s approach, although the two men, both self-professed squares, might have saved time had they been willing to try hallucinogens themselves.