Context· moderateTIK-E013
Modern psilocybin trials: pharmacologically occasioned mystical-type experience is real
- what the source states
- In a double-blind study with 36 hallucinogen-naive volunteers, psilocybin occasioned experiences meeting criteria for complete mystical experience in a majority-relevant fraction, rated months later among the most personally and spiritually significant of participants' lives.
- what we infer
- Establishes that the kind of experience the Mysteries promised is pharmacologically inducible — the analogy that motivates the whole research program. It is strictly context here: a 2006 Baltimore laboratory says nothing about a 400 BCE Attic sanctuary, and psilocybin is not LSA.
- limitations
- Analogy, not history; different molecule, set, and setting from anything hypothesized at Eleusis.