Spotlight: Ketamine's Role in Spirituality (Woods, 2021)
"Ketamine, like the prominent psychedelic, psilocybin, has reportedly caused feelings of spiritual revelation and “out of body experiences” that many physicians may not feel qualified to discuss with their patients."
Ketamine’s Role in Spirituality: How One Synthetic Drug Catalyzes a Natural Experience (Woods, 2021) compares the spiritual experiences reported in magic mushroom ingestion, psilocybin research, and the generic medicine currently available worldwide, ketamine.
A deeper contemplation:
Spotlight: Being no one, being One: The role of ego-dissolution and connectedness in the therapeutic effects of psychedelic experience (Kałużna, et al, 2022)
“The present paper explores this by focusing on two psychedelic states which have been suggested as therapeutically significant in past literature: ego-dissolution and connectedness.”
Michael DeMarco, PhD
Spotlight: The Spiritual Origins of Ketamine (2021)
“Is ketamine a glutamate antagonist or a spiritual kindler? Ketamine has two origin stories, each with its own understanding of how it treats depression. ”
Michael DeMarco, PhD
Psychedelic Therapy: Does the psychedelic experience matter?
Psychedelic medicines have been studied in the Western medical literature consistently for over 100 years, over 60 of which in the ongoing study and practice of racemic ketamine. Psychedelic experiences are described similarly and often felt as profoundly meaningful.
Michael DeMarco, PhD
