Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... tradition revolves around the concept of time (kāla) and cycles (chakra): from the cycles of the planets, to the cycles of human breathing, it teaches the practice of working with the most subtle energies within one's body on the path t...
... of its algorithm recurring through time and space. ...
... letters, words, etc.) strongly depends on the time it takes to speak the contents aloud, and on the lexical status of the contents (i.e., whether the contents are words known to the person or not).[27] Several other factors also affect a person's...
... perceptions the brain can analyze at any one time. Despite functional limitations, human consciousness is seamless, meaning that each perception and behavior flows smoothly from one to the next. When consciousness is stable perception and behavi...
... through the use of hallucinogens. (By the time he had 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 gain...
Drug War: Covert Money, Power & Policy
... style that is entertaining while at the same time amazingly detailed, concise, and to the point, Drug War covers one hell of a lot of ground." Preston Peet, High Times Magazine ...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... with positive benefits that may last a lifetime. Subjective reports from Rick Strassman’s studies with DMT in the early 1990s indicate that in the proper setting psychedelics have a powerful ability to manifest visions of disincarnate en...
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
... the production of both. Initially, at time zero in Turing's model, the two chemicals exactly balance each other — they are in equilibrium, and their concentrations at the various points on the embryo do not change over time. But now ima...
Substances that Enhance Recall and Lucidity During Dreaming
... claim 1 wherein said drug is administered at bedtime. 4. A method according to claim 1 wherein said method includes the simultaneous use of an electronic lucidity inducing device. 5. A method of enhancing the frequency and intensity of lucidi...
Sleep Deprivation, Psychosis and Mental Efficiency
... him down through a quiet forest). These were sometimes described as "hypnagogic reveries" since Gardner recognized, at least after a short while, that the visions were illusionary in nature. * Day 6: Speech slowing and difficulty namin...
Sleep and General Anesthesia as Altered States of Consciousness
... 1992). REM sleep makes up 20% of our sleep time and during this stage we experience vivid dreams. We go through this sleep cycle 5-6 times during 8 hours of sleep (Plotnik, 1993). ...
... webs and grids;1 distortions of space and time;2 and photographic images of objects, people, or scenery. Hallucinations with a photographic, animated, or film-like clarity are called eidetic hallucinations, or eidetics for short. Eidetics sha...
... of frame neutralization for some small period of time, each frame then begins to fade more slowly until frame data stacks up and feeds back on incoming perception. As recurrent information from multiple previous frames replicates and stacks into inc...
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
... can be described as the application of precisely timed rhythms and precisely shaped wave patterns to entrain both global and regional coherence of multi-stable neural oscillators. The techniques of physical shamanism are often used with a hallucinog...
Notes on Psychedelic ADSR Envelopes and Purity
... every known psychoactive substance. Until that time using subjective reports from underground experimentation remains the only way model these subtle differences. ...
... in response to physical impact to the head, sometimes referred to as "seeing stars". (Fig. 1) Entoptic hallucinations are differentiated from eidetic (photographic) hallucinations in that they originate within the neural connections between the eye...
... brain electrical activity, which parallel the time course of subjective effects. In the present study, the spatial distribution of ayahuasca-induced changes in brain electrical activity was investigated by means of low-resolution electromagnetic ...
... present study the cerebral bioavailability and time-course of effects of ayahuasca were assessed in humans by means of topographic quantitative-electroencephalography (q-EEG), a noninvasive method measuring drug-induced variations in brain electri...
... which requires substantial periods of time with any given patient....
Altered States: The Origin of Art in Entoptic Phenomena
... Dowson (1988) in their article 'The Signs of All times' propose a neurobridge backwards in time to the Upper Palaeolithic by which we can gain insight into the nature of the origins of art. Our nervous system has not changed much in the past 100,000...
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