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In reply to the discussion: Spiritual but not religious [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)9. Many people in the pew don't know the difference
It is remarkable
that 67% of the volunteers rated the experience with
psilocybin to be either the single most meaningful
experience of his or her life or among the top five most
meaningful experiences of his or her life (Fig. 3). In written
comments, the volunteers judged the meaningfulness of the
experience to be similar, for example, to the birth of a first
child or death of a parent. Thirty-three percent of the
volunteers rated the psilocybin experience as being the
single most spiritually significant experience of his or her
life, with an additional 38% rating it to be among the top
five most spiritually significant experiences. In written
comments about their answers, the volunteers often described
aspects of the experience related to a sense of unity without
content (pure consciousness) and/or unity of all things.
Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance
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"I have never heard of the concept of religious leaders blocking direct access to god"
NoOneMan
Dec 2012
#22
7 out of 10 cited it within the top 5 most significant spiritual experiences of their life
NoOneMan
Dec 2012
#12
Well, I certainly have never made the claim that one needed a church to have a spiritual
cbayer
Dec 2012
#21