One Ultimate Journey? AKA the Huxley’s Method: Perspectives of (Ab)Users of Hallucinogens and Entheogens on Having Planned Pre-Mortem Psychedelic Trip
Modern Applied Science February 13, 2019 Ahmed Al-Imam, Faris Lami 3 citations
An analysis of comments from a Facebook population of psychedelic users explored preferences for substances to take before death. Most users recommended DMT for a final journey, while others suggested LSD, psilocybin, NBOMe compounds, or opiates. Inferential models indicated that tendencies for a pre-mortem psychedelic trip were not affected by social relations, ethnicity, nationality, age, or sex, but appeared based on individualistic build-up. Religious affiliations and cultural norms were potential confounding variables needing further study. The authors call for future studies to use automated data science and machine learning for real-time statistical inference on big data to benefit public health.