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Visions and hallucinations are a recognized type of spiritual experience across many traditions. One one hand, they can be eye-opening moments of transcendence, revelation, and bliss, while on the other hand, they can be terrifying experiences of loss or warning. Whether these experiences come intentionally through practice and the consumption of medicines or psychedelics or spontaneously through a physical or medical condition, the significance and interpretation of these events can leave a deep and lasting impact on the experiencer. Even positive visions may leave someone experiencing depression, pain, or confusion once they “return to reality.” While many mystic traditions were started through practitioners having visions or out-of-consciousness experiences, many traditions also warn against seeking out these experiences or trying to force them to happen, as it can lead to spiritually and physically dangerous results.

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10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Drinking Ayahuasca

It’s impossible to be truly prepared for a psychedelic which hauls you through the doors of perception and unceremoniously throws your sense of self and reality off the edge of the world.

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A Nonbeliever Tries to Make Sense of the Visions She Had as a Teen

“People have these unaccountable mystic experiences,” Ehrenreich tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “Generally they say nothing or they label it as ‘God’ and get on with their lives. I’m saying, ‘Hey, no, let’s figure out what’s going on here.’ ”

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My First Iboga Experience: An Interview with Dr. Joseph Barsuglia

Approaching any psychedelic experience — especially a week-long shamanic journey with one of the most potent psychedelics known to man — is a nervous and exciting undertaking, but Dr. Joseph Barsuglia was more than ready.

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Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem?

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.

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What to Know About Hallucinations

Hallucinations can be a sign of a mental health illness, but they do not always mean a person is unwell. Hallucinations are, in fact, relatively common.

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Hallucinations and Hearing Voices

Hallucinations are where someone sees, hears, smells, tastes or feels things that don't exist outside their mind.

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Tripping on Iboga

Over the last decades, iboga has developed a cult following in the United States and in Europe, where it is known as ibogaine. In the West, the psychedelic is being promoted as a potential one-shot cure for treating addiction to heroin and other drugs.

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The Last Trumpet

Elaine Pagels examines the history of the Book of Revelation.

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A Little-Known Hallucinogenic Drug Called DMT Takes People to a Place That Feels 'More Real Than Real'—Here's What Researchers Know About It

According to personal accounts, a DMT trip is different to hallucinating on other drugs, such as psilocybin (mushrooms) or LSD, because it takes you some place completely different to this world, as opposed to modifying your relationship with the one you already exist in.

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The Brutal Mirror: What the Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca Showed Me About My Life.

What the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life.

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