Science and spirituality have long been deemed two worlds apart. But what happens when mysticism becomes part of a mechanism of action in a medical treatment?
This human drive to find meaning has historically given rise to behaviors and practices liable to induce states that academics in the psychedelics space call mystical-type experiences. These are experiences wherein the individual has an embodied sense of conviction they've interacted with something powerful that's larger than themselves, says Raison.
But for researchers like Garcia-Romeu, measuring and quantifying the relationship between mystical states and mental health improvement goes beyond mere academicism. “We're interested in finding this intersection between the subjective inner experience that people have [under psychedelics] and the biology of what that looks like in the brain and body,” says Garcia-Romeau.
Amanda Feilding, Founder & Director of the Beckley Foundation, assures us that in treatment with psychedelics, patients who have a mystical experience are much more likely to showcase a positive outcome.“What our research was the first to show was that at the root of the healing experience in psychedelic-assisted therapy is the mystical experience,” says Feilding.
“If I was left to my own wishes, I would probably concentrate 80 percent of the research I'm doing on the mystical experience,” says Feilding, adding that the mystery behind the mystical aspect of psychedelics was the fuel that sparked her career as one of the leading researchers in the field, which today spans over five decades.
a device developed as an effort to understand the complex emotions brought on by psychedelics and other spirituality-inducing agents.. Awe is often described as one of the building blocks of the mystical experience and defined as “the perception of vastness and the need to accommodate this vastness into existing mental models.”
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