RESEARCHERS at America's Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have enlisted the help of about twenty pastors, rabbis, priests and Buddhists to investigate the impact of mind-altering drugs on religious experiences.
Participants are go be given two monthly doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms - said to give users profound, mystical "trips".
The experiment aims to assess whether a transcendental experience makes the leaders more effective and confident in their work, and how it affects their religious thinking, according to a Guardian report.
A full analysis of the outcomes will be produced after a one-year follow-up, with lead researcher Dr William Richards saying so far "generally people seem to be getting a deeper appreciation of their own religious heritage".
too much chocolatecan be bad for you - but that's unlikely to be an issue with a newly released confection which costs more than $6,000 per kilogram.
The La Madeline au Truffe (above) is created by Danish chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt, who prepared a special version in New York this week to achieve the Guinness World Record for the most expensive chocolate.
The main ingredient is a rare French Perigord truffle - encased in a ganache of heavy cream, sugar, truffle oil and vanilla.
Each handcrafted piece is presented on a bed of faux pearls in a silver box tied with a bow.
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