THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AND THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE PRODUCED BY THE USE OF PSYCHEDELICS

Abstract

Respondents with experience in the use of psychedelics (psilocybin, LSD, ketamine, MDMA, etc.) participated in the study. Based on the subjective assessment of the level of awareness in the topic of psychedelics, it was found that 49% of respondents have a high level, 47% have an average level, and 4% have a low level of awareness in the topic. Most of the study participants were in Ukraine (84%); outside Ukraine, in particular in such countries as Germany, Israel, Bulgaria, the USA, England, Switzerland, Spain and the Czech Republic were 16% of participants. With the help of correlation analysis and the analysis of the significance of the differences between the average values of the studied indicators, the nature of the connection between the psychological well-being of the individual and the mystical experience produced by psychedelics was revealed. It has been established that the subjective awareness of the subject of psychedelics is not directly related to the actual mystical experience that arises as a result of the use of psychedelics, therefore the mystical experience is not a part of "self-suggestion", it is a real phenomenon. The mystical experience produced by psychedelics has been shown to be related to the subjective well-being of the individual, especially to happiness as its structural element, particularly in terms of a sense of unity, euphoria, and a sense of timelessness or boundary-breaking.