Summary: “Now that the psychedelic renaissance is underway. . .” writes Will Yakowicz in Forbes, “one question seems important: Is it the drugs, or is it divine experiences that’s making people feel better?”
Natalie Lyla Ginsberg, M.S.W., Global Impact Officer at MAPS, notes that “for many people the connection to spirituality and the divine often plays a very powerful, interesting role in the healing.” MAPS Founder and Executive Director Rick Doblin, Ph.D., also weighs in, drawing a clear line of separation between correlation and causation: “There are people that get better without having a mystical experience and there are people that have a mystical experience without getting better.