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Can psychedelic use benefit meditation practice? Examining individual, psychedelic, and meditation-related factors. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
IntroductionMeditation practice and psychedelic use have attracted increasing attention in the public sphere and scientific research. Both methods induce non-ordinary states of consciousness that may have significant therapeutic benefits.
Zishan Jiwani, Simon B Goldberg, Jack Stroud, Jacob Young, John Curtin, John D Dunne, Otto Simonsson, Christian A Webb, Robin Carhart-Harris, Marco Schlosser   +9 more
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Psychedelics [PDF]

Current Biology, 2022
Psychedelics are compounds that alter consciousness by acting on serotonin receptors in the brain. The term 'psychedelic', from the Greek for mind manifesting, refers to the drugs' subjective effects and was first proposed by Humphry Osmond in 1956. Other terms have been used to emphasize different aspects of the psychological experiences produced by ...
Benjamin, Kelmendi, Alfred P, Kaye, Christopher, Pittenger, Alex C, Kwan   +3 more
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Psychedelic Churches Need Philosophy of Religion [PDF]

Religions
Many new psychedelic religious organizations have recently emerged in the United States. These psychedelic churches operate in a legal gray area, which provides job opportunities not just for lawyers but also for philosophers of religion.
Eric Steinhart
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Personalised Perception: The Effect of Personality on the Sensory Effects of Psychedelics. [PDF]

Drug Alcohol Rev
ABSTRACT Introduction Psychedelics induce a wide range of sensory distortions and hallucinations (henceforth ‘distortions’). Yet, little is known about factors that influence the occurrence of certain distortions. Extra‐pharmacological variables including personality traits have been found to correlate with the occurrence of different subjective ...
Boardman A, Whelan J, Ward RD.
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Psychedelics and Personality [PDF]

ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2018
In the past decade, an increasing number of clinical trials are reporting evidence that psychedelics or serotonergic hallucinogens (such as lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin, and ayahuasca/dimethyltryptamine) could be effective in the treatment of mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders.
Marc, Aixalà, Rafael G, Dos Santos, Jaime E C, Hallak, José Carlos, Bouso   +3 more
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Psychedelics and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

American Journal of Psychiatry, 2020
The authors provide an evidenced-based summary of the literature on the clinical application of psychedelic drugs in psychiatric disorders.Searches of PubMed and PsycINFO via Ovid were conducted for articles in English, in peer-reviewed journals, reporting on "psilocybin," "lysergic acid diethylamide," "LSD," "ayahuasca," "3,4 ...
Collin M, Reiff, Elon E, Richman, Charles B, Nemeroff, Linda L, Carpenter, Alik S, Widge, Carolyn I, Rodriguez, Ned H, Kalin, William M, McDonald   +7 more
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Integrating the Mystical Experience Questionnaire Into a Broader Psychometric Framework: English Validation of the Psychedelic Experience Scale and Comparison of Psilocybin and LSD Sessions Across Two Controlled Settings. [PDF]

Int J Methods Psychiatr Res
ABSTRACT Objectives For English, the validated part of Psychedelic Experience Scale (PES48) is a four‐factor structure called the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30). The other validated part of the PES48 consists of four more factors: two more mystical factors (paradoxicality and connectedness, which together with the MEQ30 form the MEQ40), and ...
Stocker K, Hartmann M, Barrett FS, Richards WA, Sepeda ND, Ley L, Becker AM, Holze F, Liechti ME.   +8 more
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A Missing Voice? Peer Support Workers' Perceptions of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in Australia: A Cross-Sectional Survey. [PDF]

Brain Behav
Despite their capacity to bridge providers and clients, peer support workers remain largely absent from Australia's emerging psychedelic‐assisted therapy (PAT) landscape. This study identifies a broadly supportive and optimistic PSW workforce, while highlighting the need for tailored education pathways and structured integration models to enable ...
Lau AA, Arunogiri S, Raner-Galutera B, Lichtwark S, Catchlove SJ.   +4 more
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Psychedelic biomedicalization: mainstreaming a scientific revolution

, 2023
Friedman, AsiaPsychedelic drugs have again become the subject of numerous scientific and scholarly investigations with much attention given to their viability as treatments for an array of mental health conditions.
Neitzke-Spruill, Logan
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CE: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy [PDF]

, 2021
Psychedelics are a class of psychoactive substances that were studied extensively between 1943 and 1970 as potential therapies for treating a host of mental health disorders, including addiction. Despite promising early results, U.S. psychedelic research
Dorsen, Caroline G, Rosa, William E, Penn, Andrew, William E. Rosa, Andrew Penn, Stephanie Hope, Caroline G. Dorsen, Hope, Stephanie   +7 more
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