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Spirits and Spiritual Communion
... a subject for some debate, the reports of seeing spirits under the influence of psychedelics are common enough to make some formal observations. First, psychedelic entities are anthropomorphic interfaces through which psychedelic information is gene...
... is also said to be bound non-locally to all spirits and shamen in the psychedelic space regardless of physical or temporal location. The shaman is also said to be able to enter people’s dreams, making the destabilized world of fleeting no...
Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States
... is delivered spontaneously into his brain by the spirits. When the shaman sings this sacred song the ritual participants are quickly ushered into the sacred space along with the shaman. Using the entrainment dynamic it is reasonable to assume to tha...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... real. But the same drug that can make you see spirits can make you see demons, memories, mandalas, mundane scenes from everyday life, an so on. No matter how real or bizarre or lifelike or spiritual the experience, it all fades away when the drug...
The Jaguar That Roams the Mind
... intimate relationship between shamans and plant spirits The Jaguar that Roams the Mind is a journey into the vanishing world of Amazonian shamanism--an adventure of initiation and return--that explores the unique reality at the heart of the Amaz...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... but it does not require the presence of actual spirits to have an impact. Can ego death be harmful? The greatest source of psychedelic anxiety is the worry that the subject will lose control and never return to sanity. If a subject is unable to de...
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
... Few neuroscientists today would agree that spirits have anything to do with it, but as messengers from a hidden world — this time the hidden world of our brain — these hallucinations seem to have lost none of their potency. ...
... are of people, faces, animals, plants, flowers, spirits, aliens, insects, and other similar archetypes. Eidetic hallucinations can sometimes take the form of entire virtual worlds, spirit dimensions, invisible landscapes, and so on. Eidetics often ...
... a shaman might invoke anthropomorphized plant spirits with distinct personalities. Multisensory Destabilization and Schizophrenia In large doses hallucinogens can produce multisensory destabilization; a state where sensations, objects, time, a...
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
... a spiritual relationship with the healing plant spirits, how sorcerers inflict the harm that the shaman heals, and the ways that plants are used in healing, love magic, and sorcery. The work emphasizes both the uniqueness of this highly eclectic an...
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
... by carving out a distinct wave space where spirits can sneak packets of information to the subject in between normal frames. In physical terms, spirit information erupts into consciousness along the attack and decay of each psychedelic interru...
... is applied, for it is well understood that the spirits often play tricks on humans. Above all the shaman must be alert, astute, and constantly analyzing the results of his or her technique to further improve results, preferably without making any ...
... and the ways in which the shaman communes with spirits to gain supernatural insights. The allure and power of a drug that allows the user to talk directly with spirits is obvious, but fascination with spirits and transcendence may also be a handle...
A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near Death and Mystical Experiences. "Near-death experiences. Alien abductions. Lucid dreams. Even gods and goddesses. Try DMT for an explanation and it all holds together. It's brain chemistry...
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