Ketamine-Assisted Therapy and Near-Death Experiences Part 2
What Researchers Found
The Story
Jan, a woman exploring consciousness, experienced ketamine-induced states similar to near-death experiences during three infusion sessions administered by therapist Julie. The trigger was intravenous ketamine, causing dissociation from her physical body without leaving it or perceiving the material world. In the first session, she felt perched outside blackness, then merged into it, losing her sense of self and becoming one with everything and nothing in profound peace. In the second, she encountered blue and purple spaces under an archetypal Eiffel Tower, circulated energy ecstatically, and participated in a sacred Freemason-like ceremony in 1890s Paris. The third involved beautiful blue and purple colors and awareness of her expanded energetic body. After these experiences, Jan lost her fear of death, feeling freed from identity loss. She gained a stronger sense of her mystical nature, felt connected to France like coming home, and appreciated life's moments more, finding the sessions complete for now.
“coming home I felt so connected to the of France and and all that it just it”
The account features one moderately verified proximal perception of a therapist's action on the 'energetic body' with an eye mask on, confirmed immediately after, but lacks any impossible sensory access, material world veridical perceptions, or high specificity/unpredictability; experiences are explicitly internal/trans-material dissociative visions from ketamine sedation without clinical death.
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What Researchers Found
The account features one moderately verified proximal perception of a therapist's action on the 'energetic body' with an eye mask on, confirmed immediately after, but lacks any impossible sensory access, material world veridical perceptions, or high specificity/unpredictability; experiences are explicitly internal/trans-material dissociative visions from ketamine sedation without clinical death.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Was this Evidence Strength score useful?
Was this Experience Depth score useful?
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
Was this Life Impact score useful?