Altered States & Exceptional Experience

Meditation, trance, psychedelics in educational context, near-death reports, and unusual states.

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Altered States & Extraordinary Reports

Explore meditation, psychedelic research, near-death experiences, trance and hypnosis while separating experience, measurement, mechanism and interpretation.

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Mystical Experience & Spiritual Interpretation

Humans can have experiences of unity, sacredness, presence, timelessness, certainty and self-transcendence. Science can study the structure, predictors and consequences of those experiences. It cannot simply leap from the experience to one metaphysical explanation of what ultimately caused it.

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