Table 2.

Associations between LSD-induced alterations in consciousness (5D-ASC) and mystical experiences (MEQ30)

	Mystical Effects Questionnaire (MEQ30)
	MEQ30 total score	Mystical	Positive mood	Transcendence of time/space	Ineffability
5D-ASC scale
Total ASC score	0.87	0.73	0.65	0.82	0.57
Oceanic boundlessness	0.93	0.88	0.83	0.74	0.45
Anxious ego dissolution	0.60	0.39	0.35	0.68	0.55
Visionary restructuralization	0.65	0.54	0.38	0.68	0.45
Auditory alterations	0.30	0.14	0.02	0.49	0.38
Reductions of vigilance	0.61	0.41	0.47	0.64	0.47
Experience of unity	0.82	0.86	0.85	0.56	0.25
Spiritual experience	0.79	0.76	0.76	0.60	0.33
Blissful State	0.80	0.77	0.80	0.72	0.16
Insightfulness	0.77	0.79	0.68	0.52	0.42
Disembodiment	0.71	0.53	0.62	0.71	0.41
Impaired control and cognition	0.63	0.37	0.45	0.79	0.46
Anxiety	0.45	0.32	0.19	0.47	0.51
Complex imagery	0.48	0.31	0.32	0.69	0.19
Elementary imagery	0.36	0.37	0.08	0.29	0.42
Audio-visual synesthesia	0.23	0.07	0.22	0.45	−0.01
Changed meaning of percepts	0.80	0.67	0.59	0.70	0.63
Ego dissolution (item 71)	0.74	0.73	0.74	0.65	0.12

Values are Pearson correlation coefficients in 16 subjects describing correlations between %5D-ASC and %MEQ30 scores. Bold values for P < 0.05, italic values for P < 0.001