Why We Are #PsychedelicPositive
Why We Are Psychedelic Positive
Last week, the beloved community of researchers, practitioners, founders, funders, healers, musicians met in Denver to catch up on all the news from the forefront of #psychedelicscience. While Radiant Farms offers you legal herbs and sacraments to support wellness and expansion, we are definitively #PsychedelicPositive, in part because of how they work to alter belief, and to connect you to yourself, to the earth, to other people and to the great cosmic consciousness.
Across a growing body of peer-reviewed research, individuals who undergo profound psychedelic experiences frequently report lasting shifts in their metaphysical worldview, even among those with no prior spiritual orientation. These belief changes move people away from materialism and toward forms of idealism and panpsychism —suggest that psychedelics may be quietly reconfiguring the philosophical ground beneath our feet.
A single psychedelic encounter—whether catalyzed by psilocybin, ayahuasca, or DMT—opens an ontological aperture that remains permanently widened.
Participants report that their new beliefs feel embodied, emotionally resonant, and experientially verified, and constitute a shift at the level of being. And what’s perhaps most compelling is that many of these participants were not previously religious or spiritual. In fact, the very intensity and strangeness of the experience seems to rupture inherited frameworks, allowing new stories to emerge where none previously existed.
The research suggests we are witnessing a slow cultural migration away from the rigid binaries of materialist science and toward more pluralistic, experience-driven cosmologies. These aren’t regressions into superstition; they are thoughtful, often hard-won expansions that attempt to account for the fullness of human experience—ecstatic, terrifying, and beautiful. They ask us not just to believe differently, but to relate differently: to mind, to matter, to mystery.
In a world suffering from ecological degradation, spiritual malaise, and philosophical cynicism, this invitation to reimagine what is real—and to do so grounded in direct experience—is both subversive and healing. It may well be that the future of metaphysics is found in the gentle afterglow of the ineffable, in the deep integration of what was once too weird to name.
All love,
Christine and the Radiant Farms Team
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BONUS: Three studies to note
A 2020 study by Roland Griffiths and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. 2,500 adults who had experienced DMT-induced encounters with autonomous entities. 95% described the encountered beings as conscious and benevolent. 77% said the experience felt more real than waking life. 80% reported permanent changes in their beliefs about the nature of reality or consciousness. These were not individuals predisposed to esotericism; many entered the experience with no strong metaphysical framework and exited with a felt conviction that consciousness is primary, persistent, or woven into the structure of reality itself.
In 2021, a landmark study published in Nature Scientific Reports by Timmermann et al. found that psychedelic use reliably decreased belief in materialism and increased endorsement of non-physicalist metaphysical views. These shifts were observed both in naturalistic use and in clinical settings with psilocybin therapy. Importantly, participants in an SSRI control group—those taking traditional antidepressants—did not show the same belief shifts, reinforcing the unique capacity of psychedelics to provoke these philosophical re-evaluations.
In 2022, another Johns Hopkins team surveyed more than 2,300 adults who had undergone a single psychedelic session that they identified as transformative. Many reported a move toward idealism (the belief that mind is fundamental), panpsychism (the belief that consciousness pervades all matter), or dualism (the belief in a separation between mind and matter).
