PAHNKE'S "GOOD FRIDAY EXPERIMENT' A LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP AND METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUE

Richard Doblin

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capsules to twenty Protestant divinity students. Thus began the most scientific experiment in the literature designed to investigate the potential of psychedelic drugs to facilitate mystical experience (Pahnke, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1970; Pahnke & Richards, 1969a, 1969b, 1969c). Half the capsules contained psilocybin (30mg), an extract of psychoactive mushrooms, and the other half contained a placebo. According to Pahnke, the experiment determined that "the persons who received psilocybin experienced to a greater extent than did the controls the phenomena described by our typology of mysticism " (Pahnke, 1963, p. 220). This paper is a brief methodological critique and long-term follow-up study to the "Good Friday Experiment. " Pahnke, who was both a physician and a minister, conducted the experiment in

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