Can psychedelic use benefit meditation practice? Examining individual, psychedelic, and meditation-related factors
Results suggest that most meditators found psychedelic use to have a positive influence on their meditation practice, with: 1) regularity of psychedelic use, 2) the setting of intentions for psychedelic use, 3) having an agreeable personality, and 4) reported use of N,N-DMT being the most likely predictors of perceiving psychedelic use as beneficial. Longitudinal designs and randomized trials manipulating psychedelic use are needed to establish causality.
Authors
- Marco Schlosser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-0749)
- Jack Stroud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8534-4491)
- Zishan Jiwani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9054-8982)
- Simon Benjamin Goldberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-0126)
- John D. Dunne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9404-7007)
- Jacob T.N. Young (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5540-0664)
- Christian A. Webb (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8310-4539)
- John J. Curtin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3286-938X)
- Otto Simonsson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4197-7566)
- Robin Carhart‐Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6062-7150)
Institutions
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- McLean Hospital (US)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Faculty (United Kingdom) (GB)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2025-02-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310160
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.31