New research findings show that attending a psychedelic retreat causes significant changes in a person's belief system. Psychadelic ritual attendees report increased confidence in the reality of a supernatural world, the distinction between mind and body, and the non-existence of free will. Is this because psychedelics give us access to hidden truths about the structure of reality or it is because they induce a permanent state of delusion?

33- Psychedelics and Metaphysics

We explore claims about the occult, supernatural, and paranormal from an analytic standpoint. We’re open to the existence of a world beyond the five senses, and we dismiss that dogmatic skepticism that insists that any story about the unexplained has to reduce to ‘hallucinations’ or ‘swamp gas,’ but we’re not committed to any particular theory or philosophy about what the paranormal is. And we realize that, whatever is out there, the answer is likely to be more complicated than any existing model or theory. What we bring to the table is small ‘s’ skepticism – a skepticism that we throw as much on the mainstream accounts, as we do on the supernatural story.

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33- Psychedelics and Metaphysics

33- Psychedelics and Metaphysics