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re-evaluation
"Unitive consciousness - mystical
experience. A major change in the Western psychology of religion during
the last decades is ignored by current drug laws. This is the reevaluation
of states of unitive consciousness. While this change is centred in the
overlap among religion, psychology, and general culture, it also concerns
areas of the arts, psychotherapy, anthropology, and related fields. In
Western thought states of unitive consciousness are also known as mystical
experiences, peak experiences, cosmic consciousness, ego-transcendence,
and transcendent experiences. They also have a host of names in Eastern
thought such as samadhi, satori, enlightenment, illumination, and so forth.
Until the 1960s these states were generally considered to be evidence of
neurosis or psychosis, and this error persists ... Because some psychoactive
drugs and other mindbody psychotechnologies can produce these states, they
were erroneously thought to be psychologically damaging, and this error
is reflected in our current drug policies." (Th. Roberts in
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