International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Research
June 30, 2023
Hitesh Yadav, Surita Maini
3 citations
Brain oscillations vary due to neurological activities that play an important role in designing a cognitive task. In the proposed study, 27 subjects experimented with different cognitive activities (rest, meditation, and arithmetic) and their alpha and theta bands of frequencies were analyzed. BIOPAC-MP-160 has performed the data acquisition and further processing of the acquired dataset was...
Journal of Religious and Social Studies
June 30, 2023
Sadia Javed
Being a part of this spatiotemporal “phenomena” and wishing the knowledge of the “neuroma” or “Divine Reality,” which is above our commonly known capabilities and tools of acquiring knowledge through a particular way of meditation and absorbing mystical experience, is the main feature of mysticism. So questions arise: What is the nature of this experience? What are its essential...
June 30, 2023
Matt P D Gwyther, Jane E. Aspell
3 citations
preprint
Flotation-Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) and mindfulness meditation (MM) are known to induce altered states of consciousness (ASC) and self-consciousness. In this study, we use a phenomenological and predictive processing (PP) framework to compare the interventions alongside the psychedelic experience. Ego-dissolution scores were greater than ego-inflation scores in both...
The History of MDMA
June 29, 2023
Torsten Passie
Abstract MDMA and dancing became popular in the British nightlife scene from 1987 onwards, after the first DJs, inspired by their experiences in Ibiza, began to promote MDMA. In 1988, the ‘rave scene’ in the UK grew larger and generated some public controversy. After initially positive press coverage, the scene changed dramatically to a much more hostile social and political response,...
June 29, 2023
Torsten Passie
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the early, rather unknown, phase of MDMA as a recreational drug. MDMA was first detected by scientists in a forensic laboratory in 1970, and then a few more times up until 1976. A previously unknown document of the United States DEA has been used to describe these early detections. The evidence shows that up until 1976, the distribution of MDMA was...
The History of MDMA
June 29, 2023
Torsten Passie
Abstract In the 1920s, physicians discovered the potential for ‘speech induction’ offered by psychoactive substances. The German Nazis were the first to conduct experiments on the use of ‘truth drugs’ for interrogation purposes. Later, after some American prisoners of war ‘confessed’ to the use of biological weapons in the Korean war, the United States (US) Army suspected that they had been...
The MIT Press eBooks
June 29, 2023
Dyck, Erika 1975-, Chris Elcock
4 citations
The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada,...
June 29, 2023
David Luke, Pascal Michael, Oliver Robinson
Introduction: Much research has focused on the modeling of the near-death experience (NDE) by classical and atypical psychedelics; however, to date, no study has reported on the relationship between the NDE and the experience induced by the highly potent, endogenous psychedelic drug 5-Methoxy-DMT (5MeO-DMT). This article presents a case study of an individual who is popularly documented to have...
International Journal of Social Sciences
June 25, 2023
Shuang Li
Mystical experiences have always been studied with a sense of awe and mystery both by the laypersons as well as the scientists.Today due to advancements in Spiritual Psychology, Consciousness studies and Meditation studies, they are being explored from a scientific perspective.As a result several features, identifying criteria, and unique characteristic of these experiences have surfaced in...
Frontiers in Psychology
June 22, 2023
Ignacio Cea
3 citations
Commentary on: Meling D and Scheidegger M (2023) Not in the drug, not in the brain: Causality in psychedelic experiences from an enactive perspective. Front. Psychol. 14:1100058. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1100058 Word Count: 992 Figures and Tables: none We welcome with great enthusiasm Meling & Scheidegger (2023) (henceforth "M&S") timely contribution to advance an enactive approach to...