Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... only as they apply directly to Psychedelic information Theory (PIT). According to PIT, hallucination is the spontaneous production of nonlinear information via destabilization of multisensory perception.1 Similarly, shamanic therapy is the pro...
What is Nonlinear Hallucination?
Psychedelic information Theory invokes nonlinearity to describe the perceptual effects of hallucination, but the term nonlinear has a variety of definitions which are sometimes confusing or unclear. To clarify the nonlinearity of psychedelic hallucin...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... the brain access to a spirit dimension where information can be passed and received. There will always be entheogen users who adopt the spirit model for personal reasons, but others may not find any use in traditional spirit models. Any rational...
Psi-verts and Psychic Piracy: The Future of Parapsychology?
... nervous system seemingly picks up the psychic information and responds to it. To illustrate, using brain mapping technology such as EEG a person in one room has their brain monitored while a person in a distant room has their brain randomly stimu...
... the necessity to extract multiscale image information. Some of these ideas have later been formalized and refined by the wavelet theory. In parallel, psychophysics, and physiological experiments [ 1 11 have shown that multiscale transforms...
Wavelets, vision and the statistics of natural scenes
The processing of spatial information by the visual system shows a number of similarities to the wavelet transforms that have become popular in applied mathematics. Over the last decade, a range of studies have focused on the question of ‘why&#...
... you cannot reproduce an entire universe from the information in a single atom. In contrast, fractals are systems that repeat instructions over and over to form recurring embedded patterns from microscopic to macroscopic scales. Just as an organism i...
... in the face of distracting irrelevant information. The tasks seem to reflect individual differences in ability to focus and maintain attention, particularly when other events are serving to capture attention. These effects seem to be a fu...
Interpretation of visual space under drug-induced ergotropic and trophotropic arousal
... i.e. the optimization of visual information. Optimization is independent from the rat at which the distorting stimulus is presented. Optimization is regarded here as a cortical (perceptual-behavioral) interpretive process while int...
... of the spontaneous emergence of perceptual information within human consciousness. Human perception is limited by the capacity of sense organs (Fig. 1); the speed and architecture of the neural network; and the number of distinct perceptions t...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... Yes. Like a dream, there is no guarantee that information received in a spirit quest is actually valid or transferable to the real world. Faith in the ultimate truth of spirit visions can result in the subject manifesting occult beliefs and theol...
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
... that is, they are represented by three bits of information, $(x,y,\theta )$. So in this model V1 is not just a plane, but a plane together with a full set of orientations for each point. In keeping with anatomical evidence, Bressloff and his ...
Sleep Deprivation, Psychosis and Mental Efficiency
... conclusion seems to be based on two items of information. The first was the observation that there were no obvious lasting physical or mental problems encountered by Gardner when he began to sleep again. The second was based upon observations of...
... text. LSD Psychotherapy is a valuable source of information for those who are involved with LSD in any way, as parents, teachers, researchers, legislators, or students of the human psyche. The approach to healing described in this book is inspired ...
... (Fig. 3).5 The hippocampus receives perceptual information from the frontal cortex but is also wired tightly into the emotional limbic system and medial temporal lobe; which is why strong memories always have an emotional component.6 Since the hip...
... error, and indicates a drifting of contrast information both laterally and radially across the cortex. This drifting in the visual field is most prominent in the periphery where the retinal blind-spots are working with incomplete data to begin ...
... in its results.[27] Although useful information was sometimes obtained through questioning subjects on LSD, not uncommonly the most marked effect would be the subject's absolute and utter certainty that they were able to withstand any f...
Notes on Entering Spirit World
... of entering into the spirit world or receiving information through a lattice, veil, or spiritual overlay taken from subjective reports....
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
... acts as a resonant oscillator, or a nonlinear information processing system; thus the application of periodic resonant drivers will drive complex phase transitions into multi-stable states.10,11 Physical shamanism can be described as the applicat...
... would mean a complete white-out of sensory information at the interrupt site; zero saturation would mean the interrupt site is cleared of signaling molecules and is presenting a darkened resting state. Saturation at the interrupt site increase...
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