ALPS Foundation
Awareness Lectures on Psychedelics in Switzerland
We educate professionals and the public on
evidence-based psychedelic research and therapy.
At the core of our humanity lies our innate and continuous search for connection and sense of community. Psychedelics have the potential to not only to create connections within the brain, but connect humans to themselves, to each other, and to their natural environment.
“To consider something rational and reasonable only if it appears to be so in relation to the broadest and deepest norms - those that are considered most essential for the individual and society.”
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Currently, in the field of psychedelic research, the most popular psychometrically validated instrument is the “Five Dimensions of Altered States of Consciousness Questionnaire” (5D-ASC), closely followed by Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30). The latter is used to analyse the general phenomenon of a mystical experience, what the underlying neural mechanisms of it are, and whether it can predict therapeutic efficacy. But how come so many people describe psychedelic experiences as mystical? Or maybe the question is, who started to use this terminology and why?