Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experıence: Shortcut to Religious Experience

Psychedeligs such as LSD, psilocybin and mescaline which are obtained from some kinds of mushrooms, cactuses and ivies have been seen as sacred substances that provides mystical experiences and help to overcome hard situations in different communities for centuries. The psychedeligs, which do not have narcotizing and addictive effects, are used either raw or drugs. In this study which has done with a viewpoint of the psychology of religion, we have researched similarities between the drug experiences and classical mystical experiences. In addition to this, we tried to show the debates around this topic in the literature and give our evaluations on it. As a result, we have found that there are so many similarities between them.