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Routledge eBooks April 28, 2025 Charmaine Husum
This chapter provides a comprehensive guide to integrating and grounding after a psychedelic journey. Grounding is essential for solidifying the insights gained from a non-ordinary state of consciousness (NOSC) and ensuring they contribute to lasting healing and transformation. The chapter emphasizes the importance of rebuilding your aura and energetic field, which can become vulnerable after...
April 28, 2025 Charmaine Husum
This chapter explores the key differences between entheogens and synthetic psychedelics, focusing on their origins, cultural contexts, and effects on consciousness. Entheogens are naturally occurring substances, such as psilocybin, ayahuasca, and peyote, traditionally used by Indigenous cultures for spiritual and healing purposes. These substances are often consumed in ceremonial settings with...
April 28, 2025 Charmaine Husum
This chapter explores the intricate connections between transpersonal psychology, psychedelic experiences, and the power of art as a therapeutic tool. It delves into how altered states of consciousness—achieved through psychedelics or techniques like meditation and breathwork—allow individuals to access deeper realms of the psyche, facilitating spiritual and psychological growth. The work of...
April 28, 2025 Charmaine Husum
This chapter explores the importance of dreams in personal growth and psychedelic integration, offering practical tools for remembering and interpreting dreams. By actively engaging with the unconscious mind through dream recording, individuals can foster deeper self-awareness and accelerate their transformative journeys. The chapter provides a step-by-step guide to remembering dreams,...
Preprints.org April 25, 2025 Johannes Bronkhorst preprint
There can be degrees of attention. Greater depth of attention is often referred to as concentration or absorption. Great depth of attention may affect the way we experience the world, leading in extreme cases to religious experiences. In spite of its importance, little is known about the neural correlates (NCCs) of those states. This paper makes a proposal as to those correlates. It suggests...
Expert Opinion on Drug Safety April 24, 2025 Yingqiu Tu, Xin Lai, Qing Wan et al. 2 citations
This study aimed to analyze adverse drug events (ADEs) of oseltamivir or baloxavir marboxil monotherapy using the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database, providing a valuable reference for clinical drug safety. FAERS data for oseltamivir and baloxavir marboxil from their market approval in the United States until the third quarter of 2023 were retrieved....
Journal of Neuroscience April 23, 2025 Tomoya Taguchi, Jun Kitazono, Shuntaro Sasai et al.
The brain comprises a complex network of interacting regions. To understand the roles and mechanisms of this intricate network, it is crucial to elucidate its structural features related to cognitive functions. Recent empirical evidence suggests that both feedforward and feedback signals are necessary for conscious perception, emphasizing the importance of subnetworks with bidirectional...
PsyArXiv April 18, 2025 Eleftheria Pistolas, Corinna Kühnapfel, Boris Quétard et al. preprint
The Ganzfeld has attracted interest from various fields over the past 9 decades. Beyond the fields of visual perception and consciousness, this multifaceted effect has garnered attention from a wider public by virtue of its application in contemporary art by artists such as James Turrell. Until now, these art experiences have merely been described to elicit immersive experiences in the field of...
Communications Biology April 18, 2025 S Parker Singleton, Christopher Timmermann, Andrea I. Luppi et al. 17 citations
Psychedelics offer a profound window into the human brain through their robust effects on perception, subjective experience, and brain activity patterns. The serotonergic psychedelic N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) induces a profoundly immersive altered state of consciousness lasting under 20 min, allowing the entire experience to be captured during a single functional magnetic resonance imaging...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies April 17, 2025 Jacob T. Dines
AbstractBackground and aimsPsychedelic and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy are at the forefront of new treatment models for mental illnesses such as PTSD and depression, as well as improving well-being. Mindfulness meditation and loving-kindness meditation have also gained research traction, showing promise for enhancing emotional regulation and psychological well-being. This paper explores the...