Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... circular ripples through the water that, over time, create a neatly ordered standing wave of activity. In this metaphor the pond is the surface of the neocortex; the pump house is the body, heartbeat, and respiration; and the ripples are waves of...
Reviews for Psychedelic Information Theory
... serious psychedelic research for some time to come. Evolver.net interview, by Jedi Mind Traveler In his new book, "Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason," James Kent has attempted to describe both the exper...
... nonlinear states can be controlled through pitch-timed, rhythmic, or periodic sensory feedback stimulation. The tenets of the Control Interrupt Model of psychedelic action dictate that top-down feedback control of multisensory perception must be d...
Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKM zeta
... the new synaptic or cellwide configuration over time, are yet to be elucidated. In the rat cortex, long-term associative memories vanished rapidly after local application of an inhibitor of the protein kinase C isoform, protein kinase M zeta (PKMze...
Activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway via the 5-HT2A receptor
... that 5-HT activated MEK and the Erk MAPKs in a time-, concentration-, receptor- and tyrosine kinase-dependent manner. Taken together, these findings provide evidence for a novel pathway of vascular signal transduction--activation of the MAPK pathw...
... established that neurons can have long membrane time constants (8-16 ms) and balanced synaptic activations, and yet function collectively in such a way that synchrony within a time window of 4 ms significantly affects the rates and selectivity of t...
5-HT2A Agonism and Multisensory Binding
... in the recurrent circuits responsible for real-time binding of sensation to multisensory perception, affective behavior, and the process of consciousness. 5-HT2A receptor mechanics The 5-HT2A receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), whic...
About Psychedelic Information Theory
... connective and pharmacological perspective. Sometime in late 2005, halfway through the text of PIT Alpha, I completely abandoned this approach. In 2006 I adopted a circuit model of psychedelic activation I dubbed Signal Theory, which emphasized the...
Crude cognitive schematic of waking consciousness
... the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The lag between the time an image hits our retina and the time you actually "see" the image in your mind is about 16 milliseconds, giving you a working visual frame-rate of about 60 frames per second. Anything that regis...
... 3. Processes may be distributed through time in such a way that the products of earlier events can transform the nature of related events. ...
Distant psychophysiological interaction effects between related and unrelated participants
... single participants. Related pairs spent some time alone together before testing, whereas unrelated pairs did not know each other and did not meet until after the session; single participants were told they would be paired with someone they did...
Information Genesis and Complexity
The emergence of new information over time was the obsession of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, and he popularized the term Novelty Theory to describe the phenomenon of increasing information complexity in the universe through time. In order...
Spirits and Spiritual Communion
... light; they will occasionally appear in the daytime, but they prefer to appear in dim light, at night, in an area illuminated only by candle or firelight. Second, spirits usually come only when you call them, only after you have called them, in th...
... ontology becomes fluid through space and time, and is magically manipulated and reinforced through ritual use of psychedelic drugs. In a setting where the shamanic ontology is readily accepted and reinforced the shaman has great power; in re...
... adaptation that occurs when two subjects spend time together sharing thoughts, feelings, and personal space. Psychic bonding is a survival trait that all animals and possibly all plants share. Psychic bonds can create personal vulnerabilities, so ...
Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States
... machines produce graphs of brain activity over time, (Fig. 1) and each state of consciousness occupies its own distinct space along the brain wave spectrum.1 The normal waking consciousness we perceive as active self is a beta state which begins r...
What is Nonlinear Hallucination?
... has a variety of definitions which are sometimes confusing or unclear. To clarify the nonlinearity of psychedelic hallucination the following is a description of nonlinear dynamics and how they apply to psychedelic perception. Nonlinear Syst...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... the spirit leap just because it felt real at the time. Dreams also feel real, but we dismiss them because they are often nonsensical and fade when we wake up. We should have the same kind of removed perspective for our waking psychedelic dreams. Use...
The Shipibo Indians: Masters of Ayahuasca
... involved in warfare with outsiders and sometimes with other Shipibos. According to Michael J. Harner in his essay "Common Themes in South American Indian Yagé Experiences," anthropologists have studied the Shipibo Indians of the Ucayali reg...
Notes on The Limits of Expanded Consciousness
... implications of Kalachakra, the great fractal time wheel, has filled many volumes and fueled many prophecies. There is a solid case to be made that Kalachakra is the pinnacle of all mystical achievement; the end of psychedelic exploration; and t...
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