Visionary Restructuralization

VUS (visionary restructuralization, which includes items on visual pseudo-hallucinations, illusions, and synesthesias). The data on each scale were expressed as a proportion of the maximum possible score.

Griffiths provides the canonical clinical definition of VUS as the APZ subscale capturing hallucinatory perceptual reconfiguration, distinguishing it from oceanic unity and ego-dread.

Griffiths, Roland, Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial and Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Significance, 2006thesis

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Visionary Sun and Kim 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1379391 Frontiers in Psychology 05 frontiersin.org Restructuralization (VUS). The OSE has 13 items, the AIA has 22 items, and the VUS has 14 items.

Sun and Kim situate VUS within the APZ’s tripartite structure and employ it as the primary measure of peak perceptual alteration in a Jungian study of shamanic ritual.

Sun, Hang; Kim, Eunyoung, Archetype Symbols and Altered Consciousness: A Study of Shamanic Rituals in the Context of Jungian Psychology, 2024thesis

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archetype symbols have different effects at the stages of consciousness change. In particular, during the “Visionar

The study frames VUS as the apex stage in a consciousness-change sequence during which archetypal symbols produce their most pronounced effects, linking the construct directly to Jungian psychology.

Sun, Hang; Kim, Eunyoung, Archetype Symbols and Altered Consciousness: A Study of Shamanic Rituals in the Context of Jungian Psychology, 2024thesis

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during the VUS, influenced by the aforementioned four types of archetype symbols, participants’ ASC reached a peak, leading to a conscious experience of ego-dissolution.

Regression analysis confirms that archetypal symbols — patterns, masks, animal totems, and shamanic music — drive ASC to its peak during VUS, where ego-dissolution becomes statistically measurable.

Sun, Hang; Kim, Eunyoung, Archetype Symbols and Altered Consciousness: A Study of Shamanic Rituals in the Context of Jungian Psychology, 2024supporting

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VUS (visionary restructuralization) 3.70 (0.59) 8.87 (0.47) <0.001

Quantitative data show that psilocybin produces more than double the VUS score of methylphenidate, establishing visionary restructuralization as among the most drug-sensitive dimensions of altered consciousness.

Griffiths, Roland, Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial and Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Significance, 2006supporting

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