Background: Despite the rapid growth of psychedelic research, limited attention has been given to how psychedelics are used, experienced and integrated within highly conservative religious communities, and in Jewish contexts more broadly. This study addresses this gap by examining ayahuasca use among the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community, a highly religious, conservative, and collectivist...
Idiot dancing is a British term. It was mostly used between the late 1960s and the mid-to-late 1970s. It referred to an extreme form of what I am calling here expressive dancing. Expressive dancing refers to dancing that is lacking, or almost lacking, in any choreography. Rather, expressive dancing is dancing where the dancer responds to the beat, other embellishments from the drummer and...
Everyone lives within a Perception Box (PB). What we see and hear—how we interpret it and what it means to us—depends on our brain and learning history. Recognizing that perception is subjective, and understanding why, are key steps to open our minds, counteract bias, and reduce suffering. This project seeks to establish a rigorous theoretical and empirical foundation for the science of the PB....
Emerging clinical research with psilocybin highlights the value of the psychedelic experience on successful treatment of a multitude of psychiatric disorders. While the psychedelic trip or clinical support procedures cannot be modeled in rodents, neural processes critical to meta-learning and flexible modification of previously learned strategies can be quantified during psilocybin exposure....
Background: Women often face emotional, hormonal, psychological, and physical challenges at different stages of life. Issues like anxiety, stress, poor sleep, fatigue, mood swings, and perimenopausal symptoms such as hot flushes are becoming more common in community wellness settings. In Ayurveda, Marma refers to important anatomical and energetic points linked to circulation, sensory...
Abstract Oregon (OR) and Colorado (CO) were the first states to enact regulations for provision of psilocybin with support of licensed ‘facilitators.’ As more states and countries adopt similar policies, informed public policy decisions require that client characteristics and rationale for using psilocybin, psilocybin dosing practices, mental health outcomes, and adverse events are understood....
The subjective experience of patients during catatonic episodes is a relatively neglected area of research. The aims of this study were to contribute empirical data to the literature by assessing catatonic patients' subjective experiences and to explore how patients' subjective experiences vary according to their underlying medical and psychiatric conditions. All 2,281 patients admitted to an...
RATIONALE Sex differences in the effects of cannabis have been demonstrated in animals, though the human evidence is more equivocal. In particular, more work is needed to better understand interactions between sex and dose in determining acute pharmacological effects of cannabis, especially at higher potencies of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). OBJECTIVES Sex differences were examined following...
Abstract Chapter 2, ‘Religion’, provides an account of mystical ecstasy in the period under investigation, pointing to its ambiguous status and the ways it embodied a modern and disquieting form of religious experience. It shows how the disorderly traits associated with ecstatic phenomena led the Catholic establishment to adopt an ambivalent attitude towards them. It highlights that such an...
Integrated Information Theory identifies each experience with the $\Phi$-structure unfolded from a maximal causal substrate. Its calculation begins from a transition probability matrix over chosen units and interventions. I identify two limits on the claim this structure is intrinsic. First, a complete list of properties shared by every experience does not entail IIT's physical postulates are...