How Psychedelics Change Your Personality (and Why This Is a Good Thing)
How Psychedelics Change Your Personality (and Why This Is a Good Thing) // Can a single mystical experience permanently change your personality? I have a story and a bunch of research that would indicate so. Follow along on this doozy of a video... and I'll try to end off on an optimistic note about the future of humanity.
0:00 - INTRO
0:45 - The incredible story of a former heroin addict
2:03 - What you’ll learn in this video
2:44 - Fundamentals of personality theory
4:46 - Effects of psilocybin therapy on patients with treatment resistant-depression
5:20 - Meta-analysis on how psychedelics increase the trait of “openness”
5:56 - RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS
6:19 - What is Openness? (6 Facets)
7:26 - How openness can affect your subjective wellbeing
8:33 - Commentary on why the world needs more “Openness” (an antidote to polarization)
11:16 - The psychedelic renaissance as a political movement?
13:03 - CLOSING THOUGHTS
Research:
►Effects of psilocybin therapy on personality structure: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
►Mystical Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin Lead to Increases in the ►Personality Domain of Openness: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
►Psychedelics as Behavior Change Agents (presentation by Matthew Johnson, PhD): • Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics as Behavior ...
►The Big Five Personality Traits: http://bit.ly/39KxoEM
►Openness to Experience: The Gates of the Mind
http://bit.ly/3nNLlH6
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