Silicon Valley is the undisputed heavy-weight champion when it comes to attracting brilliant minds from around the world. Apple, Google, Facebook, and literally dozens of other companies worth billions of dollars each all compete to hire the best of the best.

These companies pay huge salaries, offer incredible work environments, and give stock options to their employees that can literally turn a low level employee into a millionaire in a couple years.

There’s got to be a catch, right?

Of course there is. These companies may provide incredible compensation packages to their employees, but the demands that are put on these young and brilliant minds are incredibly stressful and potentially detrimental to one’s health.

And that’s why many of Silicon Valley’s tech talent have turned to psychedelics.  

Psychedelics are common in use now. It’s a new trend for many tech professionals to consume everything from microdosed MDMA to traveling to Peru for the full ayahuasca experience. Here is how that can have a positive impact on their work and their lives:

TO CREATE TOP-NOTCH PRODUCTS

  • Nowadays, technology is rapidly changing on a daily basis. In order to keep up with these fast moving trends, some have turned to psychedelics in order to edge our their competition when it comes to creativity and thinking outside the box.
  • For full creative performance, they are using psychedelics in small dosages, to create and work more efficiently.  This process is known as ‘micro-dosing.’
  • It works as a stimulant for intellectual minds, to keep the innovators focused and alert at their workplace.
  • Engineers are using psychedelics as a quick fix to reach the maximum level of creativity. They believe that it makes their jobs easier and they work with more brilliance.

TO REDUCE POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

  • Silicon Valley professionals have a lot going on in their brains. They are faced with extreme criticism, tight deadlines, and high demands. If they don’t perform to the highest level, there is a long line of talent waiting to replace them. This kind of pressure can lead to immense stress, which can then turn to depression.
  • LSD, MDMA, and magic mushrooms (among many others) can help avoid that depressive state. It alters their state of mind and has proved very therapeutic for many.

TO STIMULATE COGNITIVE PROCESSES

  • Micro-dosing helps enhance one’s capabilities, to learn, memorize, or even collect data for research, that is usually exhausting. Micro-dosing helps the brain to heighten its alertness and stamina to go through these tasks, more efficiently.
  • Micro-dosing stimulates cognitive functions of the brain, necessary to carry out deep research by enhancing problem-solving skills.

TO ALTER PERCEPTION AND EXPERIENCE LIFE IN A BETTER WAY

  • Tech professionals in Silicon Valley claim that the use of psychedelics has had a positive impact on their professional lives, which has even made their personal lives better.
  • Psychedelics can alter one’s mood while at work, which helps to eliminate boredom, leading to more productive work days.
  • Micro-dosing LSD can enhance the overall well-being of a person. It improves sleeping and eating habits, and also urges one to participate in activities that are directly linked to physical health.
  • Psychedelics actually increase communication in different parts of the brain, causing the brain to signal more efficiently to the body, which can create euphoric sensations.

TO IMPROVE CLARITY

  • Psychedelics can help the brain think straight and see things from a different perspective.
  • By allowing one’s brain to view certain topics from a different perspective, efficiencies in work are accelerated due to the variety of creative viewpoints.
  • Consuming too much can cause hallucinations, which is why micro-dosing is so important. Just like many things in life, it’s all about moderation.  

TO UNDER-GO A PEACEFUL THERAPY

  • Psychedelics can also be used to cure and/or treat anxiety disorders, addictions, and depression. Though this treatment, patients have said that psychedelics act as a gateway to understanding their inner beings, leading to more peace within.

THE PSYCHEDELIC TREND THAT IS SOON TO SPREAD

Just like many trends that come out of Silicon Valley, micro-dosing select psychedelics will likely become common-place in the near future. As we all pile on more stress in our lives, while at the same time get bombarded by different media outlets, we’ll all need a way to focus on our inner self. Psychedelics may be the answer for many – it certainly is in Silicon Valley.