Psychedelic Mystical Experience Tier List

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Published 2022-09-16
An attempt to organize ineffable hallucinogen-induced mystical/transpersonal experiences into an arbitrary tier list based primarily on my own personal biases.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:01 - Mystical & Transpersonal Experiences definition
01:36 - Atemporality
02:12 - Ego death
02:54 - Absent Selfhood
03:57 - Fractured selfhood
04:41 - Unity and interconnectedness
05:33 - Perception of eternalism
7:27 - Existential culmination
8:08 - Perception of synchronicity
08:59 - Existential reaffirmation
10:40 - Perception of death
11:44 - Perception of rebirth
14:00 - Reduced fear of death
14:55 - Perception of interdependent opposites
16:09 - Perception of causal determinism
18:29 - Perception of sacredness
19:43 - Reverence
20:30 - Perception of divine presence
21:25 - Existential dread
22:40 - Spirituality enhancement
27:11 - Perceived exposure to inner mechanics of consciousness
28:42 - Perceived exposure to semantic concept network
31:12 - Perception of telepathy
32:52 - Ineffability
36:46 - Transpersonal hallucinations
37:59 - Noetic insight
40:02 - Noetic truth
40:32 - Noetic realism
41:29 - Platonic conceptualisation
42:34 - Unfathomable beauty
44:24 - Perception of self as designer
46:58 - Perception of self as illusion
47:54 - Perception of transcension
48:45 - Perception of enlightenment

#transpersonalpsychology #spirituality #psychedelic

All Comments (21)
  • @josikinz
    If you like what I do and/or want to join my private discord server, then please consider supporting me on patreon: www.patreon.com/JosieKins/ - Thanks! :) Also, I can't believe I forgot to include the experience of an "all-encompassing white light" and also feelings of "overwhelming love and peace" within this tier list. Either way though, they're both F-tier and I refuse to elaborate further.
  • @DEBO5
    Explaining psychedelics and spirituality with a seemingly computer science based lens is just about the coolest thing I’ve come across in a long time. Well done!
  • @Darodos1
    The experience of seeing the inner workings of my mind and subconscious was actually one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. back then, I had suffered from severe depression and had trouble with very poor self worth etc.. on a strong mushroom trip, I was shown the exact processes through which those states of being were created for me, and thus I was able to put an end to them.
  • @poprockies
    telepathy is the #1 most convincing thing i've experienced on psychedelics. word for word conversations as easy as speaking once you're on the same wavelength. you literally HEAR them speaking the same as you hear your own thoughts. i've only experienced this with an intimate partner.
  • “End of the line” effect is absolutely terrifying especially is it's mixed with the feeling that everything is predetermined. You feel like a pawn on someone else's chessboard
  • @brickstep8424
    Since having deep experiences, everyday life seems to be quite mystical.
  • @dogchaser520
    Unity/Interconnectedness as S tier melted my heart. You're in the right place! This is "Enlightenment," for lack of a better word, and people dedicate their lives to trying to maintain it. I could not agree more that it is the key to true transformation of society: the end of war and exploitation as we know it. And as a bonus, a feeling of reverence for all existence. Truly the key to happiness there! Some techniques I've used to try and remember this as often as possible, because it's so easy to forget: - Writing a personal symbol on or tattooing part of the body that you see regularly and associate with unity - Associating it with a number (for me it's 11, as in 1 = 1; 11:11 is the time of day that reminds me of this most) - Tallying in a notebook + date each time you remember and return to a sense of unity, and possibly taking note of how long you "forgot" for - Any other associations you can make, such as with a favorite food, a direction, a musical note, a smell, ... - Simply writing notes around that remind you It will take time, but once we can reliably hold on to the concept that all beings and things in the universe are part of ourselves, we'll have the ability to reach a new level of socio-ecological evolution that we can barely conceive of now.
  • @h0ckeyman136
    As a biologist. I would describe Ego death, as the change of normal neural pathways. Imagine learning a new fact or having a new experience that changes your mental patterns that physically manifest as actions. Such as falling in love, and out of love. Both change your neural pathways that result in biochemical changes that manifest in behavior or actions of a person.
  • @exactspace
    I really, really like how you are not emphasizing that drugs somehow bring us to a higher plain of existence, and that realizations of illusion are more real than hallucinating you are superior because you tripped.
  • @oni8581
    this tier list is bringing me back to all my previous psychedelic experiences i love it
  • @DeskDriver
    My friends and I had a weird experience with the “delusion of telepathy” and feeling extremely synergetic while on 5G of B positive shrooms. It was like we’d look at each other and we all just felt like we were all thinking the same things without saying them out loud.
  • @taru4635
    I like how some of the highest rated ones are also concepts theorized and generally accepted in actual physics. Anyway, people like you are really needed. As a computer science person with a materialist view of the universe who believes there's a lot to learn from this stuff, please keep it up.
  • Omg you founded the psychonaut wiki. Glad to meet you even through the internet. Maybe we'll meet on the other side at some point. But thanks for your contribution to humanity :D
  • @Feltip6
    Absolutely brilliant. Well done. It's so crucial to be able to demystify psychedelic experiences. Spirituality is definitely important but unfortunately, many people take it way too far in the new-age direction while at the same time criticising institutional religions. What they fail to see is that they're simply replacing one 'religion' with another. Yet, the concept underpinning the belief system is basically the same. Ascribing objective meaning to subjective experiences is incompatible with reason and logic.
  • @ricedreem
    Incredible work. I'm a psychotherapist and your transpersonal work is much needed. Thank you for your work.
  • Thanks a lot for the fantastic content! Anticipating to see new episodes! 💛
  • @wisefool8915
    This is great for really narrowing down the varying experiences I've been through. Thanks for the hard work
  • @TravelAboveMe
    I'm becoming so intrigued by psychedelics thanks in large part to your videos! They are so clear, and are so well compiled. They speak so clearly to a myriad of concepts I've conceptualized without psychedelics, but many which I've never felt,. The deeper I dive into therapy and the psychology of my mind, the more it seems I'm hitting a dead end, and that perhaps there are answers outside of what I can assert based on basic sensory inputs. It's amazing how much therapeutic, self discovery, world rewriting potential there seems to be in the psychedelic space, and I genuinely thank you for sharing what very easily and justifiably could be a wealth of knowledge kept to yourself!
  • I experienced most of this. Nice to see it in a list and debated in such a smart way! Great work.
  • @PieMK6R
    Been sharing your work with people I love! Happy to exist with others, like me and read the crazy comment sections XD Congrats on one of your videos hitting 1 million views! It has definitely meant something to us as a whole