Depending on how we perceive the world and our beliefs, entheogens can be potential tools to aid in the treatment of mental illness, or compounds that help us explore ourselves, and to some, entheogens are tools to explore the realms of the spiritual world. Typically, these two insights rarely mix as the psychotomimetic community on the scientific and spiritual tend to split. However, this might be changing soon! The Beckley Foundation, alongside the Imperial College of London, the University of Sussex, the University of Oxford, and the University of California, brought us an interesting study that may connect how spiritual transcendent experiences, or 'peak experiences' in the psychonaut world, may predict positive results in mental health outcomes in therapy, such as reductions in depression and anxiety, and also reduced craving in substance abuse disorders. Learn more here!
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