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Spirituality enhancement is the experience of a shift in a person’s personal beliefs regarding their existence and place within the universe, their relationship to others, and what they value as meaningful in life. It results in a person rethinking the significance they place on certain key concepts, holding some in higher regard than they did previously, and dismissing others as less important.[1] These concepts and notions are not limited to but generally include:
Although difficult to fully specify due to the subjective aspect of spirituality enhancement, these changes in a person's belief system can often result in profound changes in their personality[5][7][13], which can sometimes be distinctively noticeable to the people around those who undergo it. This shift can occur suddenly, but will usually increase gradually over time as a person repeatedly uses the psychoactive substance inducing it.
Spirituality enhancement is unlikely to be an isolated effect component but rather the result of a combination of an appropriate setting[3] in conjunction with other coinciding effects such as analysis enhancement, novelty enhancement, perception of interdependent opposites, perception of predeterminism, perception of self-design, personal bias suppression, introspection, and unity and interconnectedness. It is most commonly induced under the influence of moderate dosages of psychedelic compounds, such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline. However, it can also occur to a lesser extent under the influence of dissociatives, such as ketamine, PCP, and DXM.
There have been a number of in-depth scientific studies that unanimously support the legitimate existence of the spiritual effects induced by hallucinogen usage.[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] New psychedelic users frequently rate their experience to be either the single most meaningful experience of their life or among the top five most meaningful experiences of their life.[4][6][10][13] Psychedelics or hallucinogens intentionally used for religious or spiritual purposes are more commonly known in literature as entheogens. [3][22] The ritualized usage of entheogens for religious or spiritual purposes dates back thousands of years and is well established throughout both anthropological and modern evidence.[3][4][5][13][17][19][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]
