Hi The impact of drugs on mystical experiences would appear to be congenial with a naturalistic explanation for such experiences. But how would people who believe such experiences occur naturally due to supernatural events explain them? Indeed, isn't it somewhat paradoxical for people (the subjects) to believe that they have had some spiritual insight artificially induced by a chemical? Or is it just the "experience" that matters, not some rational interpretation, religious or otherwise?
Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA >>> "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> 29-Mar-13 6:03 PM >>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:56:21 -0700, Jim Clark wrote: >Hi >Leary was the advisor of Pahnke. The participants were identified >as divinity students. > http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_journal2.pdf For completeness sake, the reference for the article that Jim links to above is: Doblin, R. (1991). Pahnke's Good Friday experiment: a long-term follow-up and methodological critique. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 23(1), 1-28. NOTE: Doblin's article is a review of Pahnke's dissertation research and he identifies a couple of problems that apparently were glossed over in the dissertation and in subsequent publications. The "Good Friday Experiment" is also known as the "Marsh Chapel Experiment" and there is a Wikipedia entry with that name; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment NOTE: There is info on a 2006 replication of Pahnke's research and that research is can be read here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050654/ The reference for Pahnke's dissertation (it's in Dissertation Abstracts aka Proquest Dissertations & Theses) is the following: PAHNKE, WALTER NORMAN. "Drugs and Mysticism: An Analysis of the Relationship between Psychedelic Drugs and the Mystical Consciousness." Harvard University, 1964. There is the odd note attached to the entry for Pahnke saying the following: |Full text views are currently unavailable due to copyright restrictions What this means is not exactly clear since the copyright for all dissertations are held by their authors though DA/PDT makes some dissertations available for immediate download.(e.g., my dissertation can be downloaded from DA/PDT; the dissertation for the OTHER Michael Palij in Kansas is not available for download). I suppose that Pahnke could have told DA/PDT *not* to make it available though that defeats the purpose of making the research available to others (I never published the work reported in my dissertation and have no problem in others having easy access to it). I suppose that one could get Pahnke's dissertation from Harvard (see: http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|001459501 ) but the question remains why Pahnke would restrict access to his dissertation while reporting parts of it in places like this: http://www.erowid.org/entheogens/journals/entheogens_journal3.shtml Well, Good Friday to everyone, Christian or not. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=24621 or send a blank email to leave-24621-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=24629 or send a blank email to leave-24629-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
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