I recently watched a Netflix documentary on psychedelics called “How To Change Your Mind” from Michael Pollan (who also has a book on the same subject). The documentary and the book talk about the effects that substances like Psilocybin (the chemical released by “magic mushrooms”) have on the brain.
This is fascinating for me in many ways, since this is a substance that naturally occurs in nature and it almost seems like it is nature’s way to enhance our creativity and experience by altering our normal state of consciousness.