Brain stimulation for inducing mystical experience

[thenondualtankie]

Scientists figured out a way to induce mystical states via invasive brain stimulation. They did it on a patient with epilepsy.

“It is like looking at infinity, I no longer have any limits, as if everything was connected, and I was connected with any part around me.”

• Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/160y0ay/brain_stimulation_produces_mystical_experience_it/
• Paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300149/

 

[Leo Gura]

Very cool.

Too bad it is invasive.

Edited August 26, 2023 by Leo Gura

[undeather]

"t should be noted that the ecstatic phenomenon is not consistently obtained by stimulating the dorsal AIC, as such an effect has not been reproduced in 5 of our other pharmacoresistant patients who were tested in similar conditions. In the past, this phenomenon was induced in a few patients already suffering from ecstatic seizures,"