Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... problematic states of consciousness resembling psychosis and schizophrenia. States of nonlinear organization in neural networks can be controlled through energetic periodic drivers, such as music, singing, chanting, and dancing; making psychedelic...
Serotonin research: contributions to understanding psychoses
... of the serotonergic hallucinogen model psychosis in relation to the serotonin hypothesis of schizophrenia....
A systems model of altered consciousness: integrating natural and drug-induced psychoses
... and subsequent cognitive fragmentation and psychosis. Cross-species studies of homologues gating functions, such as prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex, in animal and human models of psychosis corroborate this view and provide a translat...
... hallucinogens with certain aspects of acute psychosis and to a focus on thalamocortical interactions as key to understanding both the action of these substances and the neuroanatomical sites involved in altered states of consciousness (ASC). In...
Spirits and Spiritual Communion
... highly nonlinear destabilization: deprivation, psychosis, schizophrenia, stress, fever, and hallucination; because of this it is easy to assume that hearing the voice of God is a symptom of insanity. According to PIT, when the brain destabilizes d...
... through non-random coincidence are common in psychosis, paranoia, schizophrenia, mania, bipolar disorder, and psychedelic intoxication. On psychedelics this state is dose dependent and increases in complexity with larger doses until it appears t...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... and stress, states which can easily produce psychosis if prolonged for a day or more. Subjective reports of psychedelic use often include an initial period of stomach pain and intestinal discomfort preceding full psychedelic destabilization; th...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... is much easier to prove the case for delusional psychosis than it is to invoke an entire spirit world to explain your personal insights, so why make the spirit leap just because it felt real at the time. Dreams also feel real, but we dismiss them b...
... and illusion. Dreaming, Imagination, psychosis, Hallucination While the information resolution of imagination and dreams is difficult to measure, it is widely agreed that dream perception is somewhat less resolved in detail than waking...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... referred to as persistent recurring delusional psychosis and delusions of grandeur. Traditional shamen understand that the spirits are fickle and can use the subject’s own secret fears and wishes to play elaborate tricks; a more cynical read...
Vivid dreams, hallucinations, psychosis and REM sleep in Guillain-Barré syndrome
We conducted a prospective controlled study of the clinical and biological determinants of the mental status abnormalities in 139 patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and 55 patients without GBS placed in the intensive care unit (ICU controls...
Sleep Deprivation, Psychosis and Mental Efficiency
... becomes great enough, the effects mimic those of psychosis. The failure of the scientific world to recognize this is due to some extent to the folklore that has grown up around the sleepless marathon of high school student Randy Gardner in 1964. ...
... this model states of deep sleep, mania, and psychosis can also be formally described. According to this model, eidetic hallucination in a psychedelic session will not begin until external serotonergic modulation is sufficiently interrupted to a...
Notes on Psychedelics and Persistent Psychosis
... psychedelics facilitating symptoms of persistent psychosis taken from subjective reports and a survey of psychedelic overdose case studies....
... to the effects of black magic mirrors paranoid psychosis and post-traumatic stress disorder; this implies negative plasticity. Exposing any subject to extended and repeated psychedelic sessions may force stress-driven neuroplasticity associated wi...
... disease, ADD, compulsive risk behavior, and psychosis. The role of dopamine interruption is relevant to psychedelic activity in many aspects; psychedelics may affect sensuality and motor control, and may facilitate psychosis, mania, and compuls...
From drugs to deprivation: a Bayesian framework for understanding models of psychosis
... have been used to produce symptoms of psychosis in healthy volunteers. Different drugs produce both common and distinct symptoms. A challenge is to understand how apparently different manipulations can produce overlapping symptoms. We sug...
Notes on Psychedelic Imprinting
... self-brainwashing will mimic elements of psychosis and persistent delusional disorder. See "Psychedelic Neuroplasticity"....
The psychotomimetic effects of short-term sensory deprivation
... concerned, and in particular their proneness to psychosis. This study explored whether perceptual disturbances could be elicited by a brief period of complete isolation from sound and vision in both highly hallucination prone and nonhallucination p...
Notes on Divergent State Pathologies
... Parkinson’s Disease; awake and dreaming is psychosis; relaxed and nervous is anxiety disorder; fulfilled and sad is depressive disorder; and so on. It would be incorrect to say that all psychopathologies are due to overlapping states of diverg...
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