"Drugs & Mysticism: An Analysis of the Relationship between Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Consciousness" By Walter M Pahkne, Harvard University, 1963

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Pahkne's thesis is better known as the "Good Friday Experiment," which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. Rick Doblin's undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida), " Pahnke's "Good Friday Experiment": A Long-Term Follow-Up and Methodological Critique," consisted of interviews and questionnaires administered to most of the subjects in the original study twenty-five years+ after the original experiment, and was published in The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 1991, Vol. 23, No.1.

Entire Thesis: Drugs & Mysticism (46 MB)

Table of Contents & Acknowledgements (< 1 MB)
Summary (3 MB)

Chapter 1: Introduction (< 1 MB)
Chapter 2: Religion & Psychedelic Substances: A Survey (3 MB)
Chapter 3: The Definition of Mysticism (8 MB)
Chapter 4: Experimental Design (4 MB)
Chapter 5: Data used in matching of Subjects (1 MB)
Chapter 6: Data from questionnaires, interviews, and content analysis (10 MB)
Chapter 7: General discussion and conclusions (5 MB)
Chapter 8: Suggestions for further research and implications for the future (2 MB)