Can Psychedelic Use Benefit Meditation Practice? Examining Individual, Psychedelic, and Meditation-Related Factors.
Zishan JiwaniSimon B GoldbergJack StroudJacob YoungJohn CurtinJohn D DunneOtto SimonssonChristian A WebbRobin Carhart-HarrisMarco SchlosserPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2024)
Results suggest that most meditators found psychedelic use to have a positive influence on their meditation practice, with: 1) regularity of psychedelic use, 2) the setting of intentions for psychedelic use, 3) having an agreeable personality, and 4) reported use of N,N-DMT being the most likely predictors of perceiving psychedelic use as beneficial. Longitudinal designs and randomized trials manipulating psychedelic use are needed to establish causality.