How do you make sense of a psychedelic journey?
These experiences are often described as ineffable or hard to describe. So where to begin?
The revised Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30) is a valuable tool for understanding your psychedelic experience, shedding light on how it has transformed your thoughts, actions, and overall well-being.
Studies have shown that higher MEQ30 scores correlate with improved well-being and have demonstrated a reduction in symptoms of several mental illnesses. High scores have shown correlation with long-term positive therapeutic outcomes in the treatment of depression, anxiety, cancer-related distresses, and substance use including tobacco, cocaine, and alcohol addiction.
High scores have also been found to predict positive changes in attitudes, mood, behavior, and openness. These findings have been demonstrated across mystical experiences occasioned by the use of many psychedelic medicines including psilocybin, DMT, Ketamine, and LSD.
Interpreting your MEQ30 results
You’ll be given a score out of 150 that’s often represented as a percentage. Furthermore, it is broken down into four factors:
- Mystical: Feelings of unity, ultimate reality, eternity, freedom, fusion, and reverence.
- Positive mood: Sensations of amazement, tranquillity, ecstasy, joy, and awesomeness.
- Transcendence of time and space: Pertains to the loss of a sense of space and time during the experience.
- Ineffability: The sensation that the experience cannot be adequately described using words.
If you score over 60% in each factor it is said that you’ve had a “Complete Mystical Experience”. This classification is relevant as researchers have studied how scoring above this threshold correlates with positive outcomes.
Notably, cancer patients showed greater clinical improvements than did those who did not meet these criteria. And healthy adults showed increases in openness after psilocybin, while those who did not meet the criteria did not.
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We will email you a comprehensive report with your scores along with helpful ways of analyzing the result. This can be useful in interpreting your experience as you integrate learnings into your life.
