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It is pretty common to read or hear about spiritual, religious or mystical experiences even from ardent atheists under hallucinogens. That evidence raises a ver
by Tsagadai 15y ago
It is pretty common to read or hear about spiritual, religious or mystical experiences even from ardent atheists under hallucinogens. That evidence raises a very interesting philosophical question.
- lusr 15y agoIt is common to you. But who are you? And therein lies the rub. Anecdotal evidence isn't useful when it comes to research like this: I feel that the experimental design is flawed by not balancing out this very significant variable to be representative of the population at large (estimates vary, but the non-religious make up from 2-20% of the population depending who you ask and how you define the question). My experience is that a significant portion of people in the world do not identify themselves as spiritually active and that people these people do not have such "mystical experiences", whether exposed to hallucinogenics or not.
- dreamdu5t 15y agoExperiments with psychedelics are not really possible because psychedelics present the intellectual paradox: Experiments are based on observational evidence and psychedelics change the nature of observation itself. The only thing you can do is questionnaires like the topic study.