Spirituality enhancement |
Spirituality enhancement can be described as the experience of a gradual or sudden shift of personal beliefs and interests into something which holds notions of certain key concepts with higher regard than that which it did previously. These concepts and notions are not limited to but generally include:
- An increased sense of personal purpose
- An increased interest in the pursuit of developing personal religious and spiritual ideologies
- An increased sense of compassion towards nature and other people
- An increased sense of unity and interconnectedness between oneself, nature, god and the universe as a whole
- A decreased sense of value placed upon finances and material objects
- A decreased fear of death and the finite nature of existence[1][2]
- The formation of complex personal religious beliefs.
Although difficult to fully define, spirituality enhancement can often result in drastic changes within one's personality which can become distinctively noticeable to others around those who undergo it.
Effects analysis
Any psychedelic or hallucinogen intentionally used for religious or spiritual purposes is known by the literature as an entheogen. The ritualized usage of entheogens date back thousands of years and are well established throughout both anthropological and modern evidence. There have also been a number of in-depth scientific studies which unanimously support the legitimate existence of the spiritual effects induced by hallucinogen usage.[3][4][5][6][7]
This effect is unlikely to be an independent component within itself, but is more likely to be a result of a combination of certain key experiences which convey lessons regarding a variety of spiritual themes. These generally include:
- Unity and interconnectedness
- Personal bias suppression
- Novelty enhancement
- Analysis enhancement
- Feelings of interdependent opposites
- Feelings of self-design
- Internal hallucinations
- Subconscious communication
- Feelings of predeterminism
Psychoactive substances
Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:
Experience reports
Anecdotal reports which describe this effect within our experience index include:
- Experience:2000mg/20 seeds – A pleasant adventure with a harsh body load
- Experience:300ug - Profound religious experience
- Experience:40mg + Syrian Rue (unknown dosage) - My one bad trip
- Experience:Unknown dosage / 1 tabs - Prolonged unity and messiah syndrome at school
See also
- Responsible use
- Subjective effects index
- Psychedelics - Subjective effects
- Dissociatives - Subjective effects
- Deliriants - Subjective effects
- Neurotheology (Wikipedia)
References
- ↑ Magic Mushrooms and LSD Help Cancer Patients Overcome Fear of Death, Say Scientists | http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/magic-mushrooms-lsd-help-cancer-patients-overcome-fear-death-say-scientists-1443561
- ↑ LSD-assisted psychotherapy for anxiety associated with a life-threatening disease: A qualitative study of acute and sustained subjective effects | http://jop.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/11/07/0269881114555249.abstract
- ↑ http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201212/the-spirituality-psychedelic-drug-users | The Spirituality of Psychedelic Drug Users
- ↑ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.2009.10399905#.VCLAiPldXms | Changes in Spirituality Among Ayahuasca Ceremony Novice Participants
- ↑ http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157361208x317196 | The Phenomenology and Potential Religious Import of States of Consciousness Facilitated by Psilocybin
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment | The Marsh Chapel Experiment
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16826400 | Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance
