Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... is built around cultural notions of self and spirituality, and because of this most theories typically have a shelf-life of a few decades. Instead of using metaphors, PIT was built around physical models and the best understanding of the physiol...
Group Mind and Fluid Tribal Dynamics
... the amplitude of the entire circuit. This is spirituality, religion, and group transcendence reduced to wave mechanics. [fig]1;1[/fig]There are two steps to entraining group mind. You must first demand focus of group attention, and then you mu...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... about their entheogenic spiritual beliefs. spirituality and spiritual authority is inherently political. Adopting a shamanic spirit model gives the shaman political weight in the tribe. This goes for the shaman as well as all people in power w...
... of personality, affect, quality of life and spirituality assessed across the study, only a scale measuring mystical experience showed a difference from screening. When administered under supportive conditions, psilocybin occasioned experiences ...
Pahnke's 'Good Friday Experiment' A Long-Term Follow-Up And Methodological Critique
On Good Friday, 1962, before services commenced in Boston University's Marsh Chapel, Walter Pahnke administered small capsules to twenty Protestant divinity students. Thus began the most scientific experiment in the literature designed to investig...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... split about the nature of psychedelic spirituality. The scientific or reductive view posits that psychedelics are at best hallucinogens and at worst toxins, and that any spiritual benefits derived from psychedelics are psychosomatic fabri...
... sometimes adopt a new manner of dress, a new spirituality, perhaps even a new name to go with their new identity.3 Self-reinvention is an integral part of psychedelic metaprogramming and subculture. The forging of a new identity does not always ...
... enthusiasm to the notion of mixing psychedelic spirituality with clinical therapy. ...
... kind of extended ego destruction go beyond mere spirituality and begin to mirror compulsion, addiction, or self-medication. For these people the psychedelic is a means to escaping their former selves and maintaining control over their own uniquely ...
Psychedelic Information Theory
... while others make it central to their spirituality.1 Since the cultural revolution of the 1960s psychedelic information flow has erupted into Western culture at an unprecedented rate. This rate of modern psychedelic information flow has h...
The origins of shamanism are rooted in spirituality and myth, but the power of shamanism is entirely real. It is the goal of this text to explore rational limits and applications of shamanic power beyond the paradigms of mythology and faith healing. ...
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