Processing Psychedelic and Exceptional Experiences: A Pilot Project

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This project will act as a pilot for a larger project that aims to revisit, expand, and revise the Exceptional Human Experience (EHE) process map (Brown, 2000).

 

While the EHE process map offers a useful baseline for how experiencers transmute a variety of exceptional experiences, the current version has not been updated in almost twenty-five years and does not include findings from more recent studies published about psychedelic experiences.

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The study seeks to better understand what helps and hinders experiencers' attempts to integrate and transmute psychedelic and other exceptional experiences. 

 

What the Study Involves:

• A confidential interview lasting approximately 30-90 minutes, conducted via Zoom.

• Sharing your personal experience and how it has shaped your beliefs, relationships, and/or life’s journey.

• Should you wish, sharing 1-3 songs that evoke some aspect of your experience.
   

Participant Criteria:

• Adults aged 18 or older.

• Have had at least one meaningful psychedelic or exceptional experience (e.g. near-death, out-of-body, kundalini activation, spontaneous spiritual awakening, lucid and/or precognitive dreams, shamanic journey, alien/UFO or similar) - or a combination thereof.

• Willing to reflect on and share your process of integration and personal transformation.

 

Researcher:

This project is led by Joelle Adams as part of her work on the Psychedelics, Altered States, and Transpersonal Psychology Professional Certificate at the Alef Trust.
 

The call for participation is now closed...but if you would like to participate in future research, please reach out. ​

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