A virtual reality experience called Isness-D was developed by David Glowacki, an artist and computationalmolecular physicist who experienced a life changing near death experience.
He told the MIT Technology Review that he has been trying to capture self-transcendence since he had a near-death experience.
He saw his body as a glowing ball of light, and the dimmer the light got, the closer he knew he was going to die.
He told the publication that the intensity of the light was related to the amount of time he spent in his body.
He felt peace when he looked at that light. He wants to bring the same experience of light and peace to other people.
According to the study published in the journal Scientific Reports, Isness-D may be doing that.
Isness-D isn't designed to mimic psychedelics. When it came to measuring their virtual reality experience against drugs, Glowacki and his team decided to use psychedelics as a reference point.
The scientists used four metrics to gauge the emotional responses of 75 Isness-D users.
The Isness-D participants recorded self-transcendent experiences that were indistinguishable from what would be experienced by someone taking 20 or 200 grams of psilocybin.
There is a sense of completely forgetting about the outside world in virtual reality. There is a similarity to this feeling of being in an alternate reality under the influence of drugs.
The experience is being used to facilitate Isness-D sessions for cancer patients and their loved ones, thanks to the partnership with aNUma.
It's safe to say that emerging therapeutic science is proving to be promising, not to mention interesting.
It will be great to see where these fields will take us next and how many lives they will change for the better.
The MIT Technology Review states that virtual reality is as good as the drug of choice.
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