Psychedelic integration challenges: Participant experiences after a psilocybin truffle retreat in the Netherlands

A Lutkajtis, J Evans - Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2023 - akjournals.com
This article reports on integration challenges that were experienced by nine individuals who
attended a three-day legal psilocybin truffle retreat in the Netherlands. The study employed …

Documenting and defining emergent phenomenology: theoretical foundations for an extensive research strategy

O Sandilands, DM Ingram - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Meditation, psychedelics, and other similar practices or induction methods that can modulate
conscious experience, are becoming increasingly popular in clinical and non-clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Altered states of consciousness caused by a mindfulness-based programme up to a year later: Results from a randomised controlled trial

J Galante, J Montero-Marín, M Vainre, G Dufour… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Mindfulness-based programmes (MBPs) have shown beneficial effects on
mental health. There is emerging evidence that MBPs may also be associated with marked …

Life after ayahuasca: A qualitative analysis of the psychedelic integration experiences of 1630 ayahuasca drinkers from a global survey

T Cowley-Court, R Chenhall, J Sarris, JC Bouso… - Psychoactives, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychoactive plant medicine being explored for its potential
therapeutic uses in Western contexts. Preliminary studies link ayahuasca use with …

Mindful apocalypse: Contemplative anthropology investigating experiences of world-loss in deep meditation

F Divino - Religions, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article investigates the challenge of personal crisis during deep meditation, as
observed in an ethnographic inquiry into mindfulness and traditional contemplative …

Leveraging meditation research for the study of psychedelic-related adverse effects

R Palitsky, NK Canby, NT Van Dam… - … Review of Psychiatry, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Psychedelics have shown early evidence for a range of benefits and low harm profiles in
extant research. However, adverse effects (AEs) research in psychedelics has been limited …

Meditation and Sickness

CP Salguero - Encyclopedia of Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Other …, 2024 - Springer
Throughout the history of Buddhism, healing meditations and other contemplative practices
have come to play an increasingly central role in the treatment of mental and physical …

“I Can't Do All This—This Is Nuts!”: An Ethnographic Account of the Challenges Posed by Vajrayāna Deity Yoga in a Western Context

SA Perkins - Religions, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the contextual, epistemic, ethical, personal,
practical, religious, and socio-cultural factors that sixteen Western practitioners of Vajrayāna …