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Conclusions and Discussion

... patterns created in perception; that shamanic icaros or standing vocalizations are produced in response to interrupt frequency and ADSR envelope to drive or dampen the amplitude of hallucinogenic interrupt; that driving the amplitude of hallucino...

Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States

... dynamic it is reasonable to assume to that these icaros are feedback vocalizations tuned to the resonant frequency of the specific trance state occupied by the shaman. The shaman hears the resonant frequencies in his head as hallucinogenic artifacts...

Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy

... considered to be visual representations of the icaros sung during shamanic ceremony. (Fig. 1) Each Shipibo pattern corresponds to a sacred psychedelic space where a specific type of information is manipulated and revealed, and by tuning the fluctu...

The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action

... was once only plant-spirits, jaguars, snakes, icaros and santitios, now there are machine elves, hyperspatial aliens, wicked jesters, trance music, robot doctors, and even the Beatles, Jesus, Mary, Buddha, Yahweh, and all the old-world Indo-Europ...

Communion with the Infinite: The visual music of the Shipibo people of the Amazon

... will re-establish the balance by chanting the icaros, which are the geometric patterns of harmony made manifest in sound, into the body of the person. The shaman in effect transforms the visual code into an acoustic code. A key element in this ma...

An Overview of Physical Shamanism

... In many ways these sacred songs, or icaros, are attempts to recreate the voice and tone of the subjective pharmacological interaction at various stages of the psychedelic experience. The voice of the shamanic medicine is not human in th...

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