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spiritual experience
Also known as: spiritual experience, spiritual experiences
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Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 3 facts
claimPsychedelics can contribute to curing illnesses in pre-modern contexts because they produce spiritual experiences and provide a sense of control over preternatural realms.
claimKometer et al. (2015) found that psilocybin-induced spiritual experiences and insightfulness are associated with the synchronization of neuronal oscillations.
claimPre-modern societies typically conceptualized psychedelics as entheogens, defined as gateways to spiritual or religious experiences and communication with spirit worlds, which provided sacred knowledge and power.
The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences - Frontiers frontiersin.org Sep 27, 2017 3 facts
claimDecreased integrity of the Default Mode Network is reflected by decreased functional connectivity between the parahippocampus and retrosplenial cortex, the magnitude of which is strongly correlated with self-report ratings of spiritual experience and ego-dissolution, according to Kometer et al. (2013), Lebedev et al. (2015), Carhart-Harris et al. (2016), and Tagliazucchi et al. (2016).
referenceInstitutionalized use of psychedelics in the religions of pre-modern societies worldwide played a central role in the evolution of spiritual experiences, cultures, and religions, as documented by researchers including Schultes et al. (1992), Rätsch (2005), Rush (2013), Ellens (2014), Winkelman (2014), Winkelman and Hoffman (2015), and Panda et al. (2016).
claimDouble-blind clinical studies conducted by Griffiths et al. (2006, 2008, 2011) provide evidence that spiritual experiences are directly caused by the neuropharmacological effects of psychedelic substances.
The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution link.springer.com Apr 8, 2022 2 facts
referenceR. E. Smith published 'Empowered imagination and mental vulnerability: local theory of mind and spiritual experience in Vanuatu' in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2020.
quoteWeisman and Luhrmann (2020: 7) state: ‘that people who conceptualize the mind as more “porous” tend to have more frequent and more vivid spiritual experiences than people who conceptualize the mind as more “bounded”.’
Classification Schemes of Altered States of Consciousness - ORBi orbi.uliege.be 1 fact
referenceK. Harel, J. Czamanski-Cohen, and N. Turjeman published a study in 2021 on the spiritual experience of Sufi whirling dervishes, specifically regarding rising above the separation and duality of the world.
Published Studies — Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and ... hopkinspsychedelic.org 1 fact
referenceChirico et al. published 'The Oxford Handbook of Psychedelic, Religious, Spiritual, and Mystical Experience' in Principles of Addiction Medicine in 2024.