. 2022 Aug 24;17(8):e0271926. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271926

Table 6. Mystical-type and other subjective features of the experience among the Non-Drug, Psilocybin, LSD, Ayahuasca, and DMT groups¹^,².

	Non-Drug	Psilocybin	LSD	Ayahuasca	DMT
	n = 933	n = 766	n = 904	n = 282	n = 307
Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30)
Mean proportion of max scores for each factor and total (SD)
Mystical	.67 (.29)	.76 (.20) ^a,b	.74 (.21) ^a	.82 (.18) ^b	.80 (.19) ^b
Positive mood	.70 (.29)	.74 (.22) ^a	.73 (.23) ^a	.80 (.20) ^a	.78 (.22) ^a
Transcendence of time and space	.62 (.33)	.66 (.24) ^a	.66 (.26) ^a	.77 (.22) ^b	.84 (.18) ^c
Ineffability	.78 (.27)	.83 (.19)^a	.84 (.18)^a	.87 (.16) ^a,b	.90 (.15) ^b
Total Score	.68 (.26)	.74 (.17) ^a	.73 (.18) ^a	.81 (.15) ^b	.82 (.15) ^b
Percent fulfilling criteria for complete mystical experience
Complete mystical experience	47%	51% ^a	48%^a	68% ^b	73% ^b
Near-Death Experience Questionnaire (Greyson NDE Scale)
Mean proportion of max scores for each factor and total (SD)
Cognitive	.38 (.28)	.56 (.22) ^a	.59 (.22) ^a	.57 (.23) ^a	.55 (.22) ^a
Affective	.58 (.34)	.67 (.28) ^a,b	.64 (.27) ^a	.73 (.26) ^a,b	.73 (.29) ^b
Paranormal	.38 (.25)	.44 (.23) ^a,b	.44 (.22)^a	.49 (.23) ^b	.49 (.21) ^a,b
Transcendental	.42 (.32)	.29 (.28) ^a	.25 (.27) ^a	.51 (.27) ^b	.56 (.27) ^b
Total Score	.44 (.23)	.49 (.18) ^a	.48 (.17) ^a	.57 (.17) ^b	.58 (.17) ^b
States of Consciousness Questionnaire Items (SOCQ)
Mean score for each item (range 0 none/not at all—5 extreme) (SD)
Feeling of being reborn	1.83 (2.06)	2.71 (1.85) ^a,b	2.65 (1.93) ^a	3.16 (1.81) ^c	3.15 (1.83) ^b,c
Convincing feeling of reliving biological birth	0.47 (1.26)	0.84 (1.48)^a	0.76 (1.43)^a	1.09 (1.66) ^a	0.99 (1.59) ^a
Reliving of situations and events from your childhood	0.96 (1.73)	1.56 (1.73)^a	1.51 (1.73)^a	1.96 (1.91) ^b	0.87 (1.51)^c
Déjà vu (experienced exact situation, but no real memory of it)	0.90 (1.42)	1.37 (1.44)^a	1.43 (1.47)^a	1.32 (1.53)^a	1.67 (1.68) ^a
Convincing feelings of reliving a previous incarnation	0.86 (1.70)	1.06 (1.61)^a	1.51 (1.74)^a	1.35 (1.83)^a	1.09 (1.68)^a
Profound experience of your own death	2.05 (2.12)	2.41 (2.0)^a	2.44 (2.05)^a	2.79 (1.98)^a	2.93 (1.99)^a
Convincing feeling of obtaining information in an extrasensory manner	2.72 (2.21)	1.77 (1.93) ^a,b	1.65 (1.92) ^a	2.34 (2.00)^b	1.79 (2.03) ^a
Convincing feeling of contact with people who have died	2.26 (2.25)	0.96 (1.58) ^a	0.88 (1.57) ^a	1.73 (1.96)^b	1.20 (1.76) ^a,b
Percent endorsing an encounter with “God”
Encountered something that someone might call “God”	48%	54%^a	49%^a	71% ^b	68% ^b

¹ Comparisons between drug groups for dichotomous outcomes were made using general linear model with a logit link and Type III sums of squares including covariates as described in text; continuous data were analyzed using ANOVA with the same covariates and Type III Sums of Squares; pairwise comparisons were adjusted using the Bonferroni method to control for Type I error rate.

² Bold font = significant difference from the Non-Drug Group (p≤0.001); drug groups not sharing a common letter are significantly different (p≤0.001).

Table 6. Mystical-type and other subjective features of the experience among the Non-Drug, Psilocybin, LSD, Ayahuasca, and DMT groups1,2.

Table 6. Mystical-type and other subjective features of the experience among the Non-Drug, Psilocybin, LSD, Ayahuasca, and DMT groups¹^,².