Standard descriptive statistics were used to present demographic information of the participants, including age, gender, education, meditation experience, altered states experience, and VR experience. Individuals ranged between the ages of 20 and 49, with 30-39 age group most represented. There were 1 non-binary, 2 female, and 3 male gendered individuals who completed the questionnaire, with most having a higher-education experience background. There was a mix of historical experience with VR, meditation, and altered states, from no prior experience to more than several years of experience.

Descriptive statistics were used to describe pre- and post-study scores for all variables from the instruments selected for this study (Table ). Data analyses were performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM, 2017) and Microsoft Excel. Because of the small sample size, a non-parametric test was used to assess statistical significance of the study measures, the Related-Sample Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test. The rank-biserial correlation was used to compute the effect size for the change in pre-/post- scale and sub-scale scores. According to Cohen (1988), correlations > .50 represent a large effect size and correlations > .30 and < .50 are considered a medium effect size. Results where p < .05 were considered statistically significant.

WHO-5 = World Health Organization Well-Being Index; PHQ-9 = Patient Health Questionaire; GAD-7 = Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7; MEQ-30 = Mystical Experience Questionnaire; FFMQ = Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire; PWB = Psychological Wellbeing Scale. a Standardized test statistic for Related-Samples Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. b Matched-pairs rank biserial correlation for effect size.