85% found a new purpose in life after just one trip.

Tapping into the Universe

During a psychedelic experience, if you’ve ever felt a deep, undeniable connection to everything around you, awareness of a conscious universe, or like you’ve finally found your purpose, you’re not alone. 

The incredible feeling of merging into everything has been described countless times, but most people seem to agree that words fail to capture it fully. 

It’s the sort of thing you can only experience and where many deeply held beliefs are formed. 

One Experience Later…

In 2022, researchers at Johns Hopkins University conducted a study that surveyed ~2,300 people who have had at least one psychedelic experience to see if their beliefs about reality shifted. 

After just one psychedelic experience, belief in a conscious universe skyrocketed from 📈 33% to 80%.

Just one experience, and suddenly, the universe isn’t just matter and energy - it’s something alive. 

But it goes even deeper.

The study also found that after one psychedelic experience…

• Belief in a hidden purpose to life surged from 49% to 85%.

• Belief that some part of us continues after death - jumped from 38% to 74%.

• Plants having consciousness rose from 26% to 62%.

• Fungi are conscious climbed from 21% to 57%.

• Check out the study for the full list.

🍄 What Triggers the Shifts?

How can a single experience alter core beliefs that people have held for years - or even a lifetime? 

The study points to a few reasons:

1. Mystical Experiences: Many described their trip as feeling “more real than real.” It wasn’t a thought or theory—it was a truth they felt in every part of themselves.

2. Loosening of Rigid Beliefs: Psychedelics can soften mental walls, allowing ideas to flow in that might’ve been blocked before.

3. Experiential Learning: When something is experienced firsthand - felt, seen, lived - it leaves a lasting imprint that pure logic can’t always explain away.

It’s not about adopting random beliefs. It’s about having an experience so compelling that it changes how you understand your life up until that point in time.

✨ Final Thoughts

The belief in a conscious universe isn’t new. It’s been debated for centuries. 

But this study suggests psychedelics might change our beliefs on not only the conscious universe theory, but our entire view of reality itself.

It’s one of our favorite studies because it confirms something most of us feel in our core - psychedelics don’t just alter your mind. They can shift your entire perception of existence.

✨ You Tell Us!

How have psychedelics changed your views on reality?  

What belief has you given up since your first experience?  

What do you believe now that you didn't before? 

We’d love to hear your thoughts, sincerely! 

Stay curious and keep exploring. 🌱

Referenced study: Nayak, S. M., et al. (2022). "Belief Changes Associated with Psychedelic Use." Journal of Psychopharmacology.