Why?! Oh why do y'all keep talking about unscientific things when you could be talking about scientific things? Dave's report about what goes on at a conference is, to me, *exactly* the same as Dave's report about any other experience he may have had, high or sober. They're both anecdotal at best.
Why talk about the truth-status of unicorns when we could be talking about the reliability of predictors of *categories* of experiences like this: Neuroticism is associated with challenging experiences with psilocybin mushrooms. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781400 > Abstract > > OBJECTIVES: > Classic hallucinogens (e.g. psilocybin and LSD) have substantial effects on > perception, cognition, and emotion that can often be psychologically > challenging, however we know very little regarding the source of significant > individual variability that has been observed in the frequency and intensity > of challenging experiences (i.e. "bad trips") with psychedelics. Previous > clinical and observational literature suggests that there may be an > association between neuroticism and challenging psychedelic experiences. > > METHODS: > Data from two online surveys of challenging experiences with psilocybin were > analyzed. Multivariate analysis was used to estimate the associations between > total score and scores from seven sub-factors (fear, grief, physical > distress, insanity, isolation, death, and paranoia) of the Challenging > Experience Questionnaire (CEQ), and scale scores from the Ten Item > Personality Inventory (TIPI) in Study 1 (N=1993) and the Big Five Inventory > (BFI) in Study 2 (N = 981). > > RESULTS: > CEQ scores were negatively associated with emotional stability scores (the > inverse of neuroticism) in Study 1 and positively associated with neuroticism > scores in Study 2. > > CONCLUSIONS: > Neuroticism may contribute to the strength of challenging experiences in > uncontrolled settings. On 3/9/20 10:36 AM, [email protected] wrote: > First, let’s go back to unicorns. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
