Navy said:
Modern medicine is at a terrible level for understanding of the holistic nature of the body, as well as anything pertaining to growth. So this article may be true, but it is missing lots of essential context.
What is caused some confusion here is that you might believe that these mushrooms are the only way you can achieve neural growth, or that the 8-fold path is weak in this regard. However, the truth is that the 8-fold path creates huge degrees of safe and effective neural growth, whereas hallucinogenics create weak and sometimes dangerous forms of neural growth.
It is like taking a medicine with many side effects, when there is a much better and safer alternative. This is especially true as hallucinogens can create stability problems for people, which is critical for success.
If you are talking about simply micro-dosing, then this produces a certain small amount of neural growth, but how much neural growth do you think is achieved by void meditation, sensory meditations, pineal meditation, working with sensory or mentally stimulating runes, and so on?
With this in mind, there is no reason to worry about these poor solutions that modern humanity has, especially if they come from a hallucinogenic background. Speaking of mushrooms, I know of some like, Lion's Mane, which can stimulate neural growth without the potential to create as much damage as psilocybin, as far as I know. The same is true of marijuana, where its alleged benefits can be found in 100's of other safe herbs.