Describing the 'mystical experience' of #psychedelics. #shorts

Humans have been consuming psychedelic substances for millennia, but only in the past century have we made significant progress in understanding how they affect the brain and our psychology.

Matthew Johnson, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. He has published research on psychedelics and mystical experience, personality change, tobacco smoking cessation, cancer distress treatment, and depression treatment.

[JerryBrooks-qjuy]

Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s just so hard to source here

[Barbarasmith]

There's a lot of potential in psychedelics, I can't wait to try any of them mushroom specifically but it's just so hard to find a reliable source over here, l'll be glad if anyone can be of help

[markcoleman]

I've had that "feeling" on a few occasions, but always while stone cold sober - a feeling of being "home" in a place I'd never been to before. [John Denver had that line in a song, but I'd already had the experience before I heard his song.] Most were in natural settings, but also happened at locations of ancient historical activity. It's never an expectation - it just "happens, " though one _could_ write off the feeling at historical sites as an overactive imagination.

[Jerryberger]

Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by

[burp]

Someone please get this man a beard trimmer

[kimberknutson]

Excellent. My working hypothesis about this topic is that we "arrive" here on planet Earth as biological "organisms" that are "programmable" and "programmed" by our primary caretakers. Humans are social creatures first and last. If we are well cared for by our primary caretakers, we will "succeed" as social beings in a social world. If, on the other hand, we experience trauma and/or neglect or both, we will "fail" as social beings in a social world. I experienced both trauma and neglect as a child and started trying to recover from it about 40 years ago. I am a 59 year-old woman. I am also a retired professional intellectual who used to teach English Literature and Academic Writing at a major American University. My coping mechanism as a child was to escape into my mind to escape bodily sensations, hence my eventual career. When I got miraculously got pregnant almost 25 years ago, I realized that I was going to have to make peace with the rest of my human physical apparatus, or I was going to be leaving generations of violence at my daughter Lily's feet. She is truly a miracle, as I have never exercised birth control, as I was told I was incapable of getting pregnant. Lily's father and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary the same month that Lily turns 24. The path to "wholeness" has not been easy, but nothing worth having in this lifetime is easily gotten. Lily is a lovely, brilliant, imaginative, resourceful, magnanimous, creative, funny, warm, kind, and, perhaps most importantly, happy young woman. She is comfortable in her own skin and will soon celebrate her 5 year anniversary with her first boyfriend of life. Brian is, apparently, "the one." : ) To return to the matter at hand, on my "journey to wholeness, " I experienced what you are referring to as "mystical experiences" many times, and rarely did anything "mystical" cause the experience. I think that at the beginning, we are already "whole, " but each and every "negative" experience causes us to fragment. We become fractured, disconnected, disengaged, and otherwise "broken." Each step that we take toward repairing what has been broken causes "the organism" to become briefly over-stimulated and otherwise overwhelmed, which we later characterize as a "mystical experience." Union or unity with oneself and others only feels "mystical" if you are fragmented and otherwise "broken." I understand that for some people, these "peak experiences" can be terrifying enough to stop them in their tracks, which will eventually lead a person to die in a narrative that was handed to them. That is tragic and seems like a monumental waste of life, but I am not in charge of the human experience. : ) The whys and wherefores of it all are above my pay grade. Anyhoo, I really enjoyed this. Thank you. : )

[susangabbard]

From my experience, psychedelics are capable of replicating the same effects as worship/prayer/meditation, and lucid dreams or daydreams. I do believe healing happens through the use of psychedelics but I also think prayer and worshipping God can get you there when you don’t have the help. ❤

[chantalgiroux]

Gnosis can happen to anyone as long as they can quite their mind

[cubeincubes]

something that changes your perception can actually change you perception??? unthinkable!

[gpinssn]

I've had many experiences with mushrooms and Lsd over the years, each a unique and eye opening experience but grounding at the same time. I have only had one mystical experience, back in a forest on the Isle of Skye in October 2019. It is truly ineffable. I never considered myself a religious individual, but that evening was the closest experience I've ever had in accepting what some might call the Absolute, God, Gaia, Mother Earth etc. It felt like a separate entity yet completely inseparable from me and everything else, and coursed through me in waves of what I can only describe as an enormous energy. I meditated with it for about 3 hours in that forest, succumbing to an incredible state of reverence and feeling a deep sense of gratitude to realise and feel its existence and simply be beside it. It changed my consideration and gave me an appreciation for spirituality. After 4 years I've taken psychedelics with various people and I different settings yet I've never experienced anything like that since. There isn't a week goes by where I don't think about it, and all my comings and goings see so silly by comparison. I would love to meet others and share and talk about it but it can be challenging when many friends and family are not as familiar or comfortable with psychedelic experiences, it's also not easy to describe as words don't really do it justice. If anyone has any knowledge of groups who discuss the mystical experience please let me know, I'd be very grateful to meet others. Peace and thoughts to you all. 🙏

[jJust_NO_]

the last time i try to be one with everything, i feel traumatized. my magnet is negativity. it was horrendous
meaning what i minutely see in my lenses are all negative program. dang

[notyou]

His beard would look awesome with a good beard oil, conditioner and a quick trim.

[boobwizard-]

We are in a living mystery, apparently

[TijsZwinkels]

This sounds very interesting, I would've liked this short to be longer. :P

[RachelsSweetie]

I'm still trying to get an effect like that from mushrooms. All I get is exhausted and creeped out.

[desertisland]

Very interesting. I would have thought that such substances activate areas of the brain and exaggerate what ever chemical process goes on there.

[kompal__]

Those who adore Osho, can feel this !

[michaelmorford]

OH SWEET, another beaver beard guy video!

[cmack]

What does it mean to "feel" like being "one with the universe" or "unity"?

[dylanstone]

And to be very clear the music is real I think I'm about to change the world 😂