The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: Sanguine on May 07, 2019, 01:26:51 am
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The encounter experiences, whether spontaneous or originated by a psychedelic, resulted in similar positive impact
Profound experiences of “God†or “ultimate reality†-- with psychedelics or not -- linked to self-reported mental health benefits.
More than 2/3 of self-identified atheists no longer identified as such after a personal encounter with “ultimate reality†or “the God of your understanding,†whether occasioned by a psychedelic or not.
People over the millennia have reported having deeply moving religious experiences either spontaneously or while under the influence of psychedelic substances such as psilocybin-containing mushrooms or the Amazonian brew ayahuasca, and a portion of those experiences have been encounters with what the person regards as “God†or “ultimate reality.†In a survey of thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with God, Johns Hopkins researchers report that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic...
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/experiences-of-ultimate-reality-or-god-confer-lasting-benefits-to-mental-health (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/experiences-of-ultimate-reality-or-god-confer-lasting-benefits-to-mental-health)
Interesting story.