tag > Psychedelic
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I Understand Philip K. Dick - by Terence Mckenna (via)
"Phil wasn’t nuts. Phil was a vortex victim.* Schizophrenia is not a psychological disorder peculiar to human beings. Schizophrenia is not a disease at all but rather a localized traveling discontinuity of the space time matrix itself. It is like a travelling whirl-wind of radical understanding that haunts time. It haunts time in the same way that Alfred North Whitehead said that the color dove grey 'haunts time like a ghost.'"
"Anyhow the man was a SF writer and a scholar of classical philosophy, he could not be expected to stay in touch with arcane discoveries beginning to take place on the frontiers of research mathematics. But he got very close, his intuition was red hot when he reached the conclusion that a unified abstract structure lay behind the shifting always tricky casuistry of appearances. The concept he needed was that of fractals and fractal mathematics. The infinite regress of form built out of forms of itself built out of forms of itself * unto infinity. The principle of self similarity. Phil was right, time is not a linear river. He was right, the Empire never ended. Parallel universes is too simple a concept to encompass what is really going on. The megamacrocosmos is a system of resonances, of levels, of endlessly adumbrated fun-house reflections. PKD really was Thomas and Elijah and all the other precursive concrescences that came together to make the cat-loving fat man who compacted trash into gold. The logic of being that he sought, and largely found, was not an either-or logic but a both-and and and-and kind of logic."
"What’s got to be gotten over is the false idea that hallucination is a private matter."
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Book: Dreaming The Future: How Our Dreams Prove Psychic Ability Is Real, And Why It Matters - by Bruce Siegel (discussion). Reminiscent of the classic An Experiment with Time - by J.W.Dunne (1927) (full text)
“Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.” — Zhuangzi
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https://psilocybin-research.com
"This website summarizes current cutting-edge scientific research on this extraordinary psychoactive compound with a thematic emphasis on its neurological and psychological effects and their relation to the evolution of consciousness."
Effects of psilocybin on hippocampal neurogenesis and extinction of trace fear conditioning (2013)
"Researchers found that psilocybin can stimulate hippocampal neurogenesis and extinguish conditioned fear responses, making it an ideal treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Even small doses show these outcomes."
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"Edge of Time" - drawing by Interesni Kazki
"Spark of life" - drawing by Interesni Kazki
"The planetary motion" - drawing by Interesni Kazki
"Sacred Tree" - drawing by Interesni Kazki
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The Amazing World of Mycelium - talk by Paul Stamets
The Treasure Called the Psilocybes - talk by Paul Stamets
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New research from Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research: "Ayahuasca compound changes brainwaves to vivid ‘waking-dream’ state": https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/193993/ayahuasca-compound-changes-brainwaves-vivid-wakingdream/
"A total of 13 participants were given an intravenous infusion of DMT. DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering the brain’s electrical activity."
#Comment: The comedy show which is psychedelic science continues. Ever since Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris fell in love with Friston and they are seriously trying to explain subjective experience of highly isolated agent brains with probabilistic (machine learning) models, things are rapidly becoming full Monty Python. Their approaches rely so heavily on myriads of highly arbitrary reductionist choices, it would make any renaissance alchemists giggle. Even DARPA is taking a much more interesting approach at this point and people like Dr. Michael Persinger must be laughing from their graves. I suppose let them dive down the fractal of knowledge in search of some illusive "final hard truth". If mathematicians and neuroscientists would only accept that the thing-in-itself is infinite (not a bug, but its essence) - and that there is everything in infinity (incl. nothing) - their entire house of cards would collapse. The only thing left to-do at that point, is to live a simple, humble and compassionate life.
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Operation Delirium - Decades after a risky Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/operation-delirium #Military #Psychedelic -
Is the #Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? interview with Jamie Wheal.
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"Denver Just Became the First U.S. City to Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms":
https://reason.com/2019/05/08/denver-just-became-the-first-u-s-city-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-mushrooms/ #Psychedelic #Politics -
Waking up the Monkeys: Plant Teachers and the Rediscovery of Nature - by Dennis McKenna
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Interview with Professor Thomas Metzinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Metzinger
MIND Interviews: Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger | "What we can learn from psychedelics"
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"Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity":
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)30755-1
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LSD and magic mushrooms could heal damaged brain cells in people suffering from depression, study shows: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/psychedelic-drugs-brain-repair-lsd-depression-anxiety-lsd-dmt-amphetamines-ketamine-a8395511.html
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"Security troops on US nuclear missile base took LSD, Coke & Ecstasy" - "I absolutely just loved altering my mind": https://apnews.com/98f903367b50404cb3c9695bcabefa5a
I can't make up my mind if this is extremely terrifying news or somewhat optimistic news...
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"Distilling Reality through Psychedelics & Philosophy" - Interview with @PeterSjostedtH:
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Psychedelics and Music - a animated video on the the way music and psilocybin interact:
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Lawyers & venture capitalists do yoga and meditate in a new type of New York City coworking space that was created after its founder took a psychedelic drug in Peru: http://www.businessinsider.de/photos-the-assemblage-coworking-space-new-york-city-2018-3 #Psychedelic
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Altered network hub connectivity after acute LSD administration: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158218300755?via%3Dihub
"Previous studies indicated profound changes in functional connectivity of resting state networks after the administration of LSD. The current investigation attempts to replicate and extend those findings in an independent sample."
