For decades psychedelic research was frozen by drug policy. Over the last twenty years it has quietly become one of the most rigorous fields in psychiatry — and the results consistently point to something unexpected: the mystical quality of the experience itself may be doing the therapeutic work. Here’s what the studies actually show.
“Soul” is one of the most-used words in the English language and one of the least defined. Plato, Aristotle, Hindu Vedanta, Buddhism, and modern neuroscience all give genuinely different answers to what persists in a person. Here’s an honest comparison of what each tradition actually claims — and where, remarkably, they converge.
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