The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience: A Preliminary Study of the Association Between Mystical-Type Experiences and Well-Being

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Johns Hopkins researchers developed a series of controlled studies linking psychedelic-session characteristics with later changes in mood, values, personality, and well-being. Specific papers from this program provide identifiable cases for comparing mystical-type phenomenology, positive transformation, and expectancy effects. They are relevant to consciousness research because participants often describe unity, sacredness, or a sense of revealed knowledge, but the studies assess psychological outcomes rather than the truth of those impressions. Exact title and cohort verification is important because several papers use closely related samples.