Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... becomes still and quiet. These are metaphors for consciousness moving from waking to sleeping states. Now imagine we add a psychedelic to this model. PIT proposes that psychedelics alter the wave patterns of consciousness by creating a tiny tremor ...
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... shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness. By deconstructing systems of perception and memory, Psychedelic Information Theory quantifies the limits of expanded consciousness and describes the methods by which psychedelics alter ...
Reviews for Psychedelic Information Theory
... describing the change from linear to non-linear consciousness; or which methods, or media, have most successfully transmitted the psychedelic meme and whether they can demonstrate increased complexity. Underlying the theory, PIT provides us with a ...
... shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness. Written by James L. Kent, this text was researched for over 20 years and includes over 200 references to the latest research in the diverse fields of pharmacology, shamanism, and percep...
... linear perception to promote nonlinear states of consciousness; that these states generate complex nonlinear amplifications of initial conditions provided by set and setting; that these states increase in nonlinear complexity in response to dose of ...
Serotonin research: contributions to understanding psychoses
... and glutamatergic systems to modulate states of consciousness and contribute to psychotic disorders such as the group of schizophrenias. This review summarizes experimental assessments of the serotonergic hallucinogen model psychosis in relation to...
A systems model of altered consciousness: integrating natural and drug-induced psychoses
Increasing evidence from neuroimaging and behavioral studies suggests that functional disturbances within cortico-striato-thalamic pathways are critical to psychotic symptom formation in drug-induced and possibly also naturally occurring psychoses. R...
5-HT2A Agonism and Multisensory Binding
... affective behavior, and the process of consciousness. 5-HT2A receptor mechanics The 5-HT2A receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), which means it does not activate ion channels or directly alter cell polarity, but instead sets o...
... sites involved in altered states of consciousness (ASC). In vivo brain imaging in humans using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose has shown that hallucinogens increase prefrontal cortical metabolism, and correlations have been developed between ac...
Presented at the 2006 'Toward a Science of consciousness Conference' in Tucson, AZ....
Towards a Unified Theory of consciousness & Psychedelic Action....
About Psychedelic Information Theory
... was presented at the 2006 'Toward a Science of consciousness Conference' in Tucson, AZ.7 Over a period of two years Signal Theory evolved into what I called the Multi-State Theory of psychedelic activation, which was the first time I considered th...
Crude cognitive schematic of waking consciousness
This is a simple schematic of human cognitive workflow that follows perceptual signal through the brain. Starting at the left with the two inputs (audio and visual) you can chart the flow of signal through the various processing levels until you ulti...
Distant psychophysiological interaction effects between related and unrelated participants
... was intended to induce a similar alteration of consciousness in both participants. During the drumming period the EEG of one person of the pair (“receiver”) was recorded while the other (“sender”) was occasionally stimulated ...
Information Genesis and Complexity
... motor nervous systems and rudimentary organism consciousness. The Δ6 matrix relies on the Δ5 organism matrix for cellular energy and nutritional support, but it represents a state change in that information stored in the Δ6 matrix i...
Spirits and Spiritual Communion
... All One is subjectively perceived as the mind, consciousness, will, and intent of the physical universe. There is an undeniable sense of love, acceptance, and unity infused with the contact. Formal accounts of communion with the All One date back ...
Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States
... brain as an oscillator for maintaining stable consciousness, each band of consciousness in the spectrum must therefore have its own corresponding resonant frequency or frequencies which can drive spontaneous phase transitions into that standing w...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... to specific tones and nonlinear states of consciousness, and icaros are cultural technologies for accessing specific states of highly organized nonlinear feedback complexity in both neural and cellular signaling pathways. By employing these t...
What is Nonlinear Hallucination?
... in biology and the physical universe. Nonlinear consciousness [fig]2;1[/fig]The physical world is a complex nonlinear system, but human consciousness perceives reality as a single linear sequential narrative that moves predictably forward in time...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... may lead some people into insights and expanded consciousness, they may also lead others to irrational behavior and the degradation of reason. In very simple terms, there is a psychedelic use threshold that eventually leads to some eccentricity or ...
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