The best way to prevent this — or mitigate harm, if it cannot be prevented — is through social support, via good parenting and other loving relationships, which calm the brain’s stress systems.
A study of mice recently published in Nature suggests that psychedelics can reopen what’s known as a critical period for learning social and emotional skills that occurs during the animal’s adolescence.
And psychedelics known to produce a longer “trip” in humans seem to reopen the critical learning period in mice for a longer period of time.
This ability to specifically enhance social learning is why these drugs may be so useful for helping those who are harmed by cults or early life trauma.
NXIVM did not drug its victims, although other cults have — most notoriously the murderous “family” led by Charles Manson, who gave his followers LSD.
Persons:
It’s, NXIVM, ”, Charles Manson
Organizations:
India, NXIVM