Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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Group Mind and Fluid Tribal Dynamics
... the dynamics of medicine drum circles to 1960s psychedelic party culture; hence the Grateful Dead and the growth of the Rainbow Family. In the 1990s the shamanic entrainment ritual was reduced to something as mundane as playing records on a loud s...
Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States
... not work for everyone. In shamanic therapy the psychedelic agent is applied to destabilize top-down control and make the patient more susceptible to entrainment for longer periods of time. If the patient is lying down with their eyes closed then p...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... 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 therap...
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 shaman has used the Spirit Model of psychedelic Action which proposes that psychedelics work by allowing the brain access to a spirit dimension where information can be passed and received. There will always be entheogen users who adopt...
Notes on The Limits of Expanded Consciousness
... pinnacle of all mystical achievement; the end of psychedelic exploration; and the ultimate endpoint of human consciousness. If the psychedelic Godhead is a transcendent state of infinite universal all-consciousness, it is doubtful that anything more...
Notes on Spectral Hallucination
... artifacts are taken from subjective reports of psychedelic hallucination. Casual tests to predict the accuracy and frequency range of extra-spectral claims have been inconclusive. ...
Any discussion of psychedelic hallucination is a discussion 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 neu...
... written this volume, Huxley had added LSD to his psychedelic repertoire.) While just as articulately written and researched as the first volume, the idea that religious insight can be gained through drugs may offend some readers (theists and atheist...
The Road To Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
... then expand the discussion to show that natural psychedelic agents have been used in spiritual rituals across history and cultures. Although controversial when first published in 1978, the book’s hypothesis has become more widely accepted in ...
Notes on Psychedelics and Messianic Complex
Many modern psychedelic gurus have been driven by a messianic complex; some more passionately than others. Messianic tendencies are not always pathological, but there are some good indicators to look for. Messianic complex may be considered pathology...
Pahnke's 'Good Friday Experiment' A Long-Term Follow-Up And Methodological Critique
... designed to investigate the potential of psychedelic drugs to facilitate mystical experience (Pahnke, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1970; Pahnke & Richards, 1969a, 1969b, 1969c). Half the capsules contained psilocybin (30mg), an extract of psychoacti...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
There is an ideological split about the nature of psychedelic spirituality. The scientific or reductive view posits that psychedelics are at best hallucinogens and at worst toxins, and that any spiritual benefits derived from psychedelics are psychos...
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
... whirly, spirally, tunnel-vision-like patterns of psychedelic imagery immediately spring to mind. But it's not just hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, cannabis or mescaline that conjure up these geometric structures. People have reported seeing them in n...
Notes on Subjective Reports of Psychedelic Experience
... paragraph or sentence were taken from actual psychedelic experiences, surveys of psychedelic literature, and were corroborated over multiple experiences either by the author or by reliable anonymous sources in correspondence with the author. Pub...
Notes on Anticholinergic Hallucination
... taken from subjective reports and a survey of psychedelic literature. ...
Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered
... drugs are not usually regarded as psychedelic, although they have a great deal in common historically, ulturally, and pharmacologically with other drugs taken for their mind-altering powers. They are called anticholinergic because the...
Notes on Darkness and Eidetic Hallucination
Accounts of psychedelic eidetic images becoming more intense with eyes closed or in a darkened room taken from subjective reports. ...
Notes on Content of Eidetic Hallucination
Content of eidetic psychedelic hallucinations taken from subjective reports and a survey of psychedelic literature. ...
Psychedelics and the Human Receptorome
... 1: A list of popular psychedelic drugs and receptor targets in order of 5-HT2A receptor affinity. A value of 4.00 indicates high affinity at that target; any value under 2.00 should be considered imperceptible. Non-psyche...
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