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F. Leron Shults

2 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2024-2025

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Treating Childhood Trauma through Psilocybin

June 16, 2025 Bénédicte Mannix, F. Leron Shults, Michael J. Winkelman

This chapter describes a psychedelic healing protocol developed by Bénédicte Mannix for treating childhood trauma, explaining its therapeutic approaches and the philosophical and psychological traditions that inform her healing practices. The motivation for the development of this protocol has been to harness the power of psilocybin to heal human minds, bodies, and souls from psychological...

The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion

Religion Brain & Behavior July 11, 2024 Ari Brouwer, Charles L. Raison, F. Leron Shults 3 citations

Fruitful comparison of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences requires a degree of phenomenological nuance. Some shared features of these phenomena, such as encounters and communications with supernatural entities, are obfuscated by scientific and clinical terminology. Other supposed distinctions are based on an atemporal view of dynamic experiences. In Section 2 of this...