Controlled studies show that psychedelics reliably produce mystical-type experiences involving self-loss, awe, and connectedness, as well as anomalous experiences like synaesthesia, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and entity encounters, which are commonly interpreted as spiritual interactions in pre-modern cultures.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Frontiers
  Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution

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• Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution www.frontiersin.org Frontiers via serper

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• mystical experience concept
• out-of-body experience concept
• near-death experience concept