re: Magic mushrooms allows paralyzed man to walk again

Paralyzed from the chest down, per the article. But he had enough trunk control to balance on a knee scooter before the magic mushrooms healed him. Per the article:

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Reveling in nature’s beauty is common for people on hallucinogens, but something surprising happened to Harris that night. He commandeered an acquaintance’s padded knee scooter so he could rest one leg at a time and still sway to the music. In the middle of a switch, he discovered that he could pick up his right foot and pull it back toward his butt. He tapped his right hamstring with a finger and the muscle contracted—a muscle that had been completely unresponsive since his injury,

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He was paralyzed but switched legs even before the magic shrooms? Did the shrooms also form into a catheter for him to do an in/out catheter? Did he also do a mushroom suppository on his bowel program to fix his neurogenic bowels?

Anyone paralyzed from the “chest down” or knows anything about spinal cord levels/myotomes knows that a thoracic spinal cord injury victim could never balance on a knee scooter.