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Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to spend $1 billion on ridding the state of potholes.

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to spend $1 billion on ridding the state of potholes.

Psychotherapist and author of the upcoming book 'Disconnected' Tom Kersting offers tips on 'Fox & Friends First.' In 1957, when the British psychiatrist Humprhey Osmond was looking to coin a word for the mind-bending effects of LSD, he wrote a letter to his friend Aldous Huxley. The "Brave New World" author — who had also written a book called "The Doors of Perception" detailing his experiences with the hallucinogenic drug mescaline — suggested to Osmond the word "phanerothyme" — taken from the Greek for "to show" and "spirit." Osmond didn’t think this was at all pleasant-sounding, so...

The drug lowers brain barriers, allowing distant regions to talk and thoughts to flow more freely.

LSD really does open your mind: Psychedelic drugs 'rewind' brain functions making it easier to 'unlearn normal perception', new study finds A group of researchers at Cornell University found that psychedelics like LSD can break down the barriers of the brain that shape the way we perceive reality The brain takes information and and filters it based on our past experiences, but psychedelics can weaken the influence of those prior beliefs  This allows the different parts of the brain to better communicate with each other in a way they haven't since we were children