We are now witnessing a radical revival in clinical research on the use of psychedelics (e.g. LSD and psilocybin), where ‘mystical’ experiences at centre. Drawing in-depth interviews with 50 psychedelic drug users, we document how they draw archetypical mystical narratives, comprising three key dimensions: (1) transcendence time space; (2) deep euphoria; (3) perception being one ‘a larger whole...

Abstract Background and aims Ingestion or administration of classic psychedelics is sometimes associated with improvements in well-being mental health. Acute mystical-type experiences that occasion have been suggested to be related such improvements. Meanwhile, other features the psychedelic experience, as psychological insights emotional breakthroughs, are also increasingly being studied. This...

MATERIAL Two EGYPTIAN skeletons of the Dynastic Period are described: each shows anomalies compatible with the diagnosis of the basal cell naevus syndrome. They are in the Egyptian osteological collection of the Istituto di Antropologia, University of Turin (Cat. Nos. E225 and E 235), where one of us (M.I.S.) was carrying out research on an Italian Government scholarship in 1967. A curious and ...