Psychedelic experiences can catalyze career realignment by dissolving ego-based ambitions, enhancing somatic awareness, and reorienting motivation toward value-based, purpose-driven work. Based on 28 in-depth interviews and grounded theory analysis, four integrative categories emerged: psychedelic influences on work, creativity and innovation, personal transformation, and career transitions. Participants often integrated spiritual insight and sacred intuition into professional life, reframing labor as a mode of existential expression rather than a means of achievement. The findings extend psychedelic science into underexplored domains of career development, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior.
The author introduces a "Zen-informed spiritual research paradigm" grounded in an Eastern Buddhist worldview, arguing that it fundamentally transcends Western mainstream functionalism. The article defines "spiritual research" and discusses its philosophical and methodological implications, elaborating on features concerning ontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodology. A field study demonstrates the application of Zen methodologies in research design, data sampling, collection, analysis, theorizing, and report writing. The author proposes six evaluation criteria for spiritual research along with applicable methodological strategies. The work is described as pioneering in decolonizing mainstream research paradigms through Zen-informed approaches in response to calls for a paradigmatic shift toward global consciousness.
A qualitative study of entrepreneurs who had long practiced the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program found that their meditation practice helped them cultivate inner experiences rooted in an unshakeable, transcendental inner spiritual core. These entrepreneurs reported that this inner experience enhanced their intuition and broadened their awareness to include the wider interests of the community and environment. The findings are discussed in relation to prior scholarship on spirituality in entrepreneurs. The study offers insight into how spiritual values and behaviors might become more fully realized in the workplace.