Limitations on the Scientific Study of Drug-Enabled Mystical Experiences
Scientific interest in drug-induced mystical experiences reemerged in the 1990s. This warrants reexamining the philosophical issues surrounding such studies: Do psychedelic drugs cause mystical experiences? Are drug-induced experiences the same in nature as other mystical experiences? Does the fact...
Subtitles: | DRUG‐ENABLED MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Zygon
Year: 2019, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 756-792 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Psychedelic experience
/ Mysticism
/ Research
/ Scientific nature
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Further subjects: | B
Attribution Theory
B Neuroscience B Consciousness B Mysticism B scientific study of mystical experiences B Mystical Experience B Psychedelics B Huston Smith B entheogens |
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Summary: | Scientific interest in drug-induced mystical experiences reemerged in the 1990s. This warrants reexamining the philosophical issues surrounding such studies: Do psychedelic drugs cause mystical experiences? Are drug-induced experiences the same in nature as other mystical experiences? Does the fact that mystical experiences can be induced by drugs invalidate or validate mystical cognitive claims? Those questions will be examined here. An overview of the scientific examination of drug-induced mystical experiences is included, as is a brief overview of the history of the use of psychedelic drugs in religion. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12546 |