idquest Posted March 25, 2013 Fascinating scientific study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050654/ The criteria used in the study: volunteers completed the Pahnke-Richards Mystical Experience Questionnaire (Griffiths et al., 2006), which assesses seven domains of mystical experiences: - internal unity (pure awareness; - a merging with ultimate reality); - external unity (unity of all things; all things are alive; all is one); - transcendence of time and space, - ineffability and paradoxicality (claim of difficulty in describing the experience in words); - sense of sacredness (awe); - noetic quality (claim of intuitive knowledge of ultimate reality); - and deeply-felt positive mood (joy, peace, love). Ratings were made on a 6-point scale relative to the participant’s overall life experience. The observations were made over 14 months periodof time. Some comments from the article: The most striking finding from this 14-month follow-up evaluation of the effects of psilocybin and methylphenidate administered to hallucinogen-naïve volunteers is that a large proportion of volunteers rate their “psilocybin experience”1as among the most personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives. Fifty-eight percent and 67% of volunteers, respectively, rated the experience as being among the five most personally meaningful experiences of their lives, and the five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives; 11% and 17%, respectively, indicated that it was the single most meaningful experience, and the single most spiritually significant experience. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flolfolil Posted March 25, 2013 yep. even manmade chems can result in stuff like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites