Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... phenomena like complex hallucination, shamanism, and group mind. How does PIT describe psychedelic action? One way to visualize what I'm describing in PIT is through what I call the "Pond and the Pump House" metaphor. Imagine a perfe...
... and multisensory signatures. The tenets of shamanism in the Age of Reason, or Physical Shamanism, dictate that a shaman can intuitively sense the interrupt frequency and ADSR envelope of any hallucinogen simply by ingesting a small amount of t...
Information Genesis and Complexity
... achieved in our matrix into their matrix. shamanism and Information Matrices When a shaman enters the trance state and searches for new information there are specific levels of knowledge which are more helpful than others. For instance, when...
Spirits and Spiritual Communion
... of the Spirits A study of the literature on shamanism and helper spirits tells us many things about their behaviors and habits. First, spirits do not generally like light; they will occasionally appear in the daytime, but they prefer to appear ...
shamanic sorcery is the craft of manipulating the fabric of psychedelic space for personal gain or vendetta. Powers ascribed to shamanic sorcery include clairvoyance, spirit channeling, shape shifting, astral travel, remote viewing, curses, dream pro...
Group Mind and Fluid Tribal Dynamics
... Trance and Entrainment Technology A practicing shaman must be a master of at least one ritual entrainment technology, and must be a master of putting himself and others into a targeted trance state; this is the bare minimum, the rest happens natur...
Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States
... oscillator is called entrainment, and when the shaman induces a trance state he is applying resonant wave interference to entrain the frequency of the patient’s neural oscillators. Neural Oscillators All states of consciousness are created b...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
The practice of spiritual shamanism and healing is a subject that has been covered by many texts, so here we will examine physical models of shamanic therapy only as they apply directly to Psychedelic Information Theory (PIT). According to PIT, hallu...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
shamanism is about transformation, and the shaman must build models in which to produce transformational results. Traditionally the shaman has used the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action which proposes that psychedelics work by allowing the brain acc...
Common Themes in South American Indian Yage Experiences
... that a common function of ayahuasca-taking by shamans is to permit the shaman's soul to leave his body in the form of a bird which flies to kill a distant person at night. The bird changes back into the shaman's human form to kill the sleeping pe...
The Shipibo Indians: Masters of Ayahuasca
... identity and retains many of their prehistoric shamanic traditions and beliefs. Chief among their traditions is the Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) ceremony. Perhaps surprisingly to those who have only experienced Shipibos involved in touristic...
Communion with the Infinite: The visual music of the Shipibo people of the Amazon
... effect on the health of that person. The shaman 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...
The Jaguar That Roams the Mind
... Explores the three pillars of Amazonian shamanism: purging, psychoactive plants, and diet • Shares the experiences of apprenticing with an Ashaninca master shaman • Reveals the intimate relationship between shamans and plant spiri...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... of the subject’s mind. The entheogenic or shamanic view posits that psychedelics are ritual sacraments that open the user to hidden spirit powers and wisdom (Fig. 1). This ideological split need not exist because both of these views are essen...
... with phantom friends or relatives, or how a shaman might invoke anthropomorphized plant spirits with distinct personalities. Multisensory Destabilization and Schizophrenia In large doses hallucinogens can produce multisensory destabilization...
... is the physical mechanism which makes shamanism and psychedelic therapy viable. In dreaming neuroplasticity is stimulated in response to daily routine and anxiety; in hypnosis neuroplasticity is stimulated in response to suggestion and re...
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
... sets forth, in accessible form, just what this shamanism is about -- what happens at an ayahuasca healing ceremony, how the apprentice shaman forms a spiritual relationship with the healing plant spirits, how sorcerers inflict the harm that the sh...
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
Physical shamanism is differentiated from Spiritual Shamanism in that physical shamanism relies on models of neural oscillators and resonant wave entrainment as opposed to spirit models of supernatural medium channeling, telepathy, or clairvoyance. T...
Altered States: The Origin of Art in Entoptic Phenomena
... as well as individual dispositions. In a shamanic society, such as Lewis-Williams and Dowson (1988) argue is the San, a shaman in training may be encouraged to 'guess' at what the entoptics represent, and some measure of control and manipula...
... taken away from each individual session. shamanic Context The earliest known context for the use of psychedelics is the Shamanic context. The classic image of a shaman is a painted healer waving a bone rattle over a fire while wailing an a...
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