snake in a bamboo cane (editing)
In the current heydays of research with psychedelics, the film observes the worldwide first clinical study outside the hospital but within the group-setting of a well structured meditation retreat during five days in a ZEN monastery at the Rigi mountain in Switzerland. 39 expert meditators without any drug experience receive either 25mg of the psychedelic compound of certain mushrooms, called PSILOCYBIN, or 25mg of a placebo in a double-blind manner. Their collective trip bec