Abstract
Background: In controlled, clinical studies of the impact of psilocybin on patients with life-threatening cancers, Johns Hopkins and NYU researchers found that the “intensity of the mystical experience” induced by psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy was directly correlated with the alleviation of cancer-related mental distress. Objective: The purpose of this article is to explore the proposition that the combination of psychotherapeutic guided imagery and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy could not only alleviate cancer-related psychological distress but also reduce or eliminate physiological tumors. Methods: The literature surrounding “mystical experience” is discussed; the modalities of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and guided imagery psychotherapy with cancer patients are compared; and the anecdotal outcomes of cancer remission among private therapy guided imagery patients are presented.
Highlights
Result: The following question is proposed for future research: can psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy augmented by guided imagery facilitate the reduction or elimination of tumors communicating it to others
Since 2006 the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Johns Hopkins) has been conducting the first research since the 1970s involving the administering of psilocybin to human subjects, including studies of personality changes and of psychedelic therapy for treating tobacco/nicotine addiction and cancer-related distress
Our contemporary understanding of the common elements in mystical experience is largely based on the ideas of William James (1902), The Varieties of Religious Experience, and Walter T
Summary
The purpose of this article is to explore the proposition that the combination of psychotherapeutic guided being; experience of peace and tranquility; irrepressible feelings of joy and amazement. Imagery and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy could not Transcendence of Time and Space/Eternity– loss of only alleviate cancer-related psychological distress and usual sense of time and space; existing beyond reduce or eliminate physiological tumors
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