One of the reasons I love this artistic depiction is their authors' expertise with depicting personal experience with structural and functional neuroanatomical condition that  strike mesmerizing similarities to the way that these plant structures can be depicted as a bright and delicate brain structures.  One of the most important functions that explains the mechanism of ketamine is that it increases "neuroplasticity," which is commonly used around these days,  but the neuroplastisticity acheive from ketamine is quite extreme.  Without trying to bore with extreme details (I have PLENTY) that demonstrate the efficacy of ketamine as a potent producer of BDNF (brain derived growth factor) indicating thickening and widening of neural dendrites, not unlike, as last visually, and symbolically being capable of forming dense, thick, more “dense” ketamine neural structures.  SSRIs and other medication classes can also increase BDNF, but not to the same degree.

 

I also welcome all skeptics, as one ought to approach a novel promising therapy, I am happy to share several great lectures, papers and possibly even live therapy sessions .    

“Neuroplasticity” allows for such rapid growthy rate allows for a “~2 week period in which new thoughts, memories, feelings, and development of new behavior that can much more easily adopted develop during this window. When paired with proper preparation, an ideal mindset, and environment, it can lead to profound changes in depression, anxiety, PTSD and other conditions that would otherwise take a much larger investment in time, energy, and psychotherapy. While all psychedelic experiences can vary even among the same person, there is no "guarantee" that you will you be guaranteed a specific a trip, traditional wisdom is that the “the universe give you exactly what you need.” The notion that ketamine could be use to “jump-start” the therapy process by initiating the start of ketamine, in concert with psychotherapy for integration, healing and recovery.  Users of ketamine often report that a one session of ketamine can feel like 5 years of therapy!  The larger than life, intense, spiritual, euphoric sense of  joy and purpose does not come spontaneously, but I’ve yet to find a person who has not found the experience  transcendental.