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Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem?

By John Horgan — 2019

I just spent a week at a symposium on the mind-body problem, the deepest of all mysteries. The mind-body problem--which encompasses consciousness, free will and the meaning of life--concerns who we really are. Are we matter, which just happens to give rise to mind? Or could mind be the basis of reality, as many sages have insisted?

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An Introduction to Religious Experience

The term “religious experience,” or sometimes “mystical experience,” is used to describe a transcendent event that transforms the person who has the experience, often in a way that leads to a strong sense of connection and/or oneness with the universe and/or God.

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Psychedelic drug phenomena do not justify radical new views of reality.

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Scientists Want to Know More About DMT Entities People Encounter

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The World's First-Ever Acid Trip Actually Kinda Sucked

Acid was at the start of its own long strange trip: from research chemical to psychiatric wonder drug, brainwashing tool to agent of ego-dissolution, cosmic insight and cultural revolution.

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