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rejection from a lot of pain, but rather than sitting with that pain which is sort of the natural emotion that goes with that experience, it jumps to something like cutting to cut off that pain, right? Or jumps to something like rage and blaming someone else
include: MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, and ketamine. Once sorted by substance, the final filter was implemented for trials containing uploaded ICFs, yielding 10 ICFs for review (see Table 1 ). Table 1. Number of studies examining PTSD treatment by psychedelic
, according to Letheby (2020) , this sort of response is question-begging. Nobody denies the fact of epistemic asymmetry, but whether the presence of this asymmetry necessarily entails the presence of some phenomenological feature is precisely the point at
psychoactive substances that arrived with the conquistadores was marked by European Christian values that already declared demoniac all sorts of conscious-altering effects from the use of psychoactive drugs ( Escohotado, 1997 ). European codes and Inquisition
when the bravery of a “rogue” is interrupted by a “trembling” that “spontaneously reacts against baseness” ( 1963 , 366, n. 18). In the latter sort of situation, he says in the initial quote above, the performance of a wrongful act will only sting the
Psychedelic Christianity: Commentary and reply
Commentaries on: McCarthy & Priest (2024). Psychedelic Christianity: From Evangelical hippies and Roman Catholic intellectuals in the sixties to clergy in a Johns Hopkins clinical trial
which qualities of psychedelic insights/visions are to be trusted, and which need to be critically examined and/or viewed with healthy skepticism? And finally, what sorts of theological and/or institutional changes will take place given the infusion of
ego dissolved as well and since I've felt less inclined to ‘be the top dog’ or hold any sort of power over anyone.” “Since then, I’ve never felt violent or angry. I am very sensitive, hurting any creature big or small hurts my heart. I feel like I can
fecal concentrations of E . coli and Serratia marcescens , as well as serum anti- S. cerevisiae titers. In practice, the two bacteria and the fungus, in vitro, acted in synergy to form a sort of enhanced biofilm [ 101 ]. The latter may underlie the
—including contemplative practices of various sorts; ceremonial plant medicine use, mantra recitation, fasting practice, and meditation—play a formative role in epistemic knowledge-making and metaphysical belief system formation. The relation between non-ordinary states of
institutions rather than supporting the sorts of systemic changes that could prevent harm and improve mental health. Productivisation & pathologization Moving now from inspecting the dynamics of depoliticisation in the psychedelic space, the next mechanism for
