Even for non-religious people mystical experiences are often reported as being profoundly spiritual and meaningful. Despite this, mystical experiences have been largely ignored by mainstream psychology and psychiatry.
Why has this been the case?
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Mystical Experiences on 5-Meo-DMT & Psilocybin
Dr Dean Wright The Griffith Lab of Johns Hopkins, are one of the driving forces behind the current Psychedelic Renaissance. Their initial studies looked at how psilocybin can occasion Mystical Experiences. Mystical experiences are characterised by four primary domains, including: A sense of unity or profundity positive mood transcendence of time/space ineffability Having a mystical […]
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The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience
Dr Dean Wright The previous two posts (one and two) sought to identify how the Set of the person influences the psychedelic experience. The current study seeks to understand how the ‘drug‘ affects the psychedelic experience. The authors use the bounty of knowledge available from Erowid. They seek to help establish how different psychedelics influence the subjective effects of […]
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