The strongest argument against the thesis of the experiment relies in the fact that a religious mystical experience is placed on a spiritual rather than medical level and that the spirit is not necessarily determined by the actions of the brain, as a human organ. The spirit includes the way the brain act and the way the heart feels or the behavior of other organs in the body.
For many scientists, including those that have performed the scientific experiment and including people like Tom Roberts, who in his book "Psychedelic Horizons" talks about the benefic effects of drugs on the brain in terms of exploring new states and experience new functions of the body otherwise hidden to the general audience.
For myself and numerous other individuals, the mystical experience cannot be related solely to the functionality of the brain or to the way the entire body is operating. If it were so, then we could sustain the idea of a drug-induced mystical experience. However, as things are, this is almost impossible, since it is less likely that the spirit and the spiritual dimension of an individual can so easily become subject to the impact of drugs.
We have to be constantly aware of the spiritual dimension of a religious mystical experience and it is my firm belief that such a spiritual mysticism is difficult to induce with drugs. The individual has to have a certain perception of the mystical level, he needs to become one with...
The scientific studies do not have a strong explanation, especially since everybody perceives in his own manner an experience, especially a mystical experience.
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