Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... affects the values of the larger tribe and culture. The chaotic, high-information ripple extends outward over time and goes beyond the confines of the user's mind, expanding into art and media and science and religion and cultural trends. I do...
Psychedelic Information Theory: Home Page
... create new information, and affect human culture. By presenting these methods in physical terms, Psychedelic Information Theory offers a rational and objective model for shamanic transformation and therapy in modern clinical practice. Writte...
... ripples outward to affect the larger tribe or culture. The second component is the Control Interrupt Model of psychedelic action, which states that all hallucination begins with destabilization of perceptual homeostasis; that the destabilizing in...
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Information Genesis and Complexity
... information genesis is the story of human culture itself, the organized spread and control of information through hominid tribal groups leading to power, civilization, empire, and industry. The Δ7 information matrix represents another q...
Group Mind and Fluid Tribal Dynamics
... 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 stereo system with ...
... or the hourly news cycles of modern media culture – have particularly high levels of local circadian binding. Usually circadian rhythms must be synched before psychic bonding between subjects can begin, though there is anecdotal evidence th...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... ago. Psychedelics were introduced to modern culture as spiritual sacraments. This is understandable, but in hindsight it appears to be an ethnocentric error in judgment. Instead of recognizing this error and correcting the shamanic mythology to...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... traits. In industrialized societies human culture has adapted to minimize notions of universal interconnectedness in favor of systems of categorization and specialization, perhaps to pathological extremes. While unity and interconnectedness m...
... part of psychedelic metaprogramming and subculture. The forging of a new identity does not always happen in a single psychedelic session, but psychedelic experimentation can easily become a catalyst for sudden and radical personality transform...
Making PCR: a story of biotechnology
... for experimentation. Making PCRexplores the culture of biotechnology as it emerged at Certus Corporation during the 1980s and focuses on its distinctive configuration of scientific, technical, social, economic, political, and legal elements, ea...
The Value of Psychedelic Information
... information makes its way into popular culture is proof that humans find the psychedelic experience valuable, but it is still ambiguous if psychedelics add any real value to culture. Research has shown that spiders are affected by psychede...
... influenced human mythology, religion, art, and culture. ...
Notes on Psychedelic Festivals
... Grateful Dead circuit, the Rainbow Family, Rave culture, Burning Man, the Boom Festival, the Love Parade, and other gatherings around the world dedicated to psychedelic music, art, and culture. Attendance at the largest of these annual festivals is...
Notes on the Cultural Influence of Psychedelics
... claim that psychedelics are more influential on culture and cultural movements than other drugs can be easily disputed. However, psychedelics are unique in their ability to quickly catalyze tribal subcultures bent on spontaneous altruism, populist ...
... is well documented in both tribal and modern cultures. In traditional tribal cultures psychedelic rites involve passage from childhood to manhood and greater trust and acceptance among adult members of the tribe. In the modern West psychedelic r...
Notes on Rise of Modern Psychedelic Culture
A close scrutiny of late 20th century history indicates that there was a small decline in psychedelic interest in the late 1970s and 1980s, followed by a global resurgence of underground psychedelic interest in the 1990s, and a complete return to psy...
Notes on Repression of Psychedelics
Psychedelic information flow within any culture is a function of religion and politics. Traditional shamanic cultures value psychedelic information as a ritual form of bonding, healing, and discovery, and encourage psychedelic information flow. Indus...
Psychedelic Information Theory
... influence psychedelics have over any given culture, and the rate of flow is different for every culture. Some cultures repress anything resembling psychedelic information while others make it central to their spirituality.1 Since the cultural ...
... with the spiritual belief of the larger tribe or culture. It does not matter what the mythology is, a good shaman can adapt any mythology or belief to transformational ritual. Instead of preaching the mythology, the shaman exploits the mythology as ...
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