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title: "Certainly made me more empathetic to those who claim to have…"
date: 2019-04-27
source: facebook
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# Certainly made me more empathetic to those who claim to have…

*April 27, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.inverse.com/article/55228-atheists-stopped-being-atheists-after-taking-psychedelics](https://www.inverse.com/article/55228-atheists-stopped-being-atheists-after-taking-psychedelics){target="_blank"}
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Certainly made me more empathetic to those who claim to have spiritual experiences.\
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\"Through anonymous online surveys, 3,476 people reported supernatural encounters that they had while on psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, ayahuasca, or DMT. An additional 809 people reported they had non-drug encounters with supernatural or divine forces, but the survey did not gather information on what, if anything, apparently sparked their experiences.\
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One of the paper's most striking findings is that people who identified as atheists dropped that identity after a psychedelic encounter with something that felt greater than themselves. Twenty-one percent of the psychedelic users reported being atheists before their experience, while only 8 percent reported being atheists after. The biggest absolute change in atheist status occurred after mystical encounters induced by DMT: 25 percent were atheists before their experience, versus only 7 percent after.\"
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