Can Psychedelics Permanently Change Your Belief In God?

I explain how psychedelics can permanently change your view on God and Religion. Psychedelics may open your mind to new possibilities regarding the afterlife. Trippy stuff!

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This video articulates the gist of the following: A recent study revealed a connection between regular DMT use and belief in a higher power – four people discuss their newfound faith. Last month, a study revealed that most people who regularly use DMT – a hallucinogenic rumored to mirror a near-death experience – develop beliefs in some kind of higher power. The report by John Hopkins University, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, concluded that the DMT experience was one of the most “personally meaningful, spiritually significant, or psychologically insightful” of people’s lives. Lasting anywhere between a few minutes and several hours – depending on how much you take and the method you do so – DMT appears to have the ability to permanently alter a person’s outlook on life. 90 per cent of respondents in the study reported improved life satisfaction and wellbeing after taking the drug, while 80 per cent said they found meaning and purpose. More than half of those who identified as atheist before the experience no longer did afterwards. Located in the center of the brain, scientists are yet to establish the full function of the pineal gland. One thing they do know is that it produces melatonin, a hormone that’s activated when the sun goes down, which makes you feel less alert and regulates your sleeping pattern. Sometimes known as the ‘third eye’, the pineal gland is often believed to connect the spiritual and physical worlds, as it supposedly provides perception beyond ordinary sight. In his 2001 book, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman hypothesized that the pineal gland, which detects daylight, is responsible for the production and release of DMT, which he says is released at the moments of birth and death. Can the use of psychedelic drugs induce lasting changes in metaphysical beliefs? While it is popularly believed that they can, this question has never been formally tested. Here we exploited a large sample derived from prospective online surveying to determine whether and how beliefs concerning the nature of reality, consciousness, and free-will, change after psychedelic use. Results revealed significant shifts away from ‘physicalist’ or ‘materialist’ views, and towards panpsychism and fatalism, post use. With the exception of fatalism, these changes endured for at least 6 months, and were positively correlated with the extent of past psychedelic-use and improved mental-health outcomes. Path modelling suggested that the belief-shifts were moderated by impressionability at baseline and mediated by perceived emotional synchrony with others during the psychedelic experience. The observed belief-shifts post-psychedelic-use were consolidated by data from an independent controlled clinical trial. Together, these findings imply that psychedelic-use may causally influence metaphysical beliefs—shifting them away from ‘hard materialism’. We discuss whether these apparent effects are contextually independent. Paradigmatic metaphysical positions can be found in physicalism (or materialism), idealism and dualism. Proponents of physicalism maintain that the nature of reality is fundamentally physical and all mental properties derive from this basic property, the position of idealism states that all physical properties derive from a fundamental reality which is mental (e.g., an irreducible, fundamental and pervasive consciousness) and dualism states that the nature of reality consists of two separate properties. People over the millennia have reported having deeply moving religious experiences either spontaneously or while under the influence of psychedelic substances such as psilocybin-containing mushrooms or the Amazonian brew ayahuasca, and a portion of those experiences have been encounters with what the person regards as “God” or “ultimate reality.” In a survey of thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with God, Johns Hopkins researchers report that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic.
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