Frederick Barrett
3 articles
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UP death consciousness
Psychedelic-Assisted End-of-Life Care: Psilocybin, Mystical Experience, and the Dissolution of Death Anxiety
In 2016, two landmark studies — one from Johns Hopkins University, one from New York University — reported results that would have seemed impossible a decade earlier: a single dose of psilocybin, administered in a controlled clinical setting with psychological support, produced rapid,...
16 min · 5 researchers · 19 concepts
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UP spiritual practice
The Science of Mystical Experience: When the Brain Touches the Infinite
There is an experience that defies language yet has been described — haltingly, inadequately, but consistently — across every culture, every century, every religious tradition and none. A moment in which the boundaries of the self dissolve.
13 min · 5 researchers · 16 concepts
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Mega-Analysis Reveals Universal Neural Signatures Across Five Psychedelic Compounds
Groundbreaking integration of 11 independent brain imaging studies identifies consistent neural mechanisms underlying therapeutic effects across psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline
5 min · 5 researchers · 6 concepts