Psychedelic Experience, The

Customarily, consciousness acts as a reducing valve on the amount of information permitted into awareness, but the drug disturbs this function, and the subject s thought processes are swamped with an "information overload." Ideation becomes so rapid and extended as to be more aptly described as intuition. What would normally be regarded as overinclusiveness of concepts becomes in the psychedelic experience the basis for remarkably speeded, enriched, and extended modes of ideation. In psychotomimetic reactions, however, the overgeneralization disrupts thought processes and produces intense confusion and bewilderment. 

Intellectual expectations are appropriate when subjects have had much psychedelic experience. Indeed, LSD offers vast possibilities for accelerated learning and scientific-scholarly research. But for initial sessions, intellectual reactions can become traps. The Tibetan Manual never tires of warning about the dangers of rationalization. "Turn you mind off is the best advice for novitiates. Control of your consciousness is like flight instruction. After you have learned how to move your consciousness around - into ego-loss and back, at will -then intellectual exercises can be incorporated into the psychedelic experience. The last stage of the session is the best time to examine concepts. The objective of this particular manual is to free you from you verbal mind for as long as possible. 

Modern awareness of mescaline didn t begin percolating into the mass imagination until around 1954,following the publication of Aldous Huxley s now famous description of his psychedelic experiences. The Doors of Perception. This book made a great impression on the... 

Since Peganum harmala seeds provide an easily extracted concentrate of harmala alkaloids, and since this extract, combined with orally ingested DMT or psilocybin evokes an extremely potent psychedelic experience, the following formula is offered. Of all of my various experiments in this field, this one has been the most rewarding. It is so simple that anyone can perform it successfully without specialized equipment. (It doesn t even require de-fatting or extraction with an organic solvent ) Indeed, if one were to forget every other plant in this... 

Obviously, we do not know what, if any, psychedelic experiences an animal may have in response to a ketamine dart. (Perhaps they experience K-Land and K-Hole just like humans.) Animals rarely become violent or agitated after being injected with ketamine, so it is unlikely to produce the psychotic symptoms observed in some human users. 

These personal developments have taken place against a background of deepening problems in the real world and a rising interest in the psychedelic experience by young people. I am, I am told. 

Plenty of down-to-earth reasons for preserving the planet, going beneath the surface of scientific inquiry into the psychedelic experience, and some truly amazing dope tales." VILLAGE VOICE... 

Concerns about the use of ketamine as a human anesthetic began to arise in the early 1970s, however, when some patients reported having unsettling psychedelic experiences. Over the next two decades, the use of ketamine in surgical procedures in the United States decreased until, in 1999, the DEA listed ketamine as a Schedule III drug. It is now used almost exclusively in the United States for veterinary procedures, although it can be used for certain specialized procedures with humans. 

Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT The Spirit Molecule, suggests that naturally occurring DMT in the human body may mediate spontaneous psychedelic experiences such as near-death and mystical... 

I have not had drug-induced psychedelic experiences, although many people who read my Neoreality books seem to think I have had chemically enhanced hallucinations. In some sense, I have to put a damper on my creativity and visions. Some of my publishers even tell me I write too much and should slow down. Nevertheless, my mind, visions, and ideas continually fly. As Salvador Dali said, I am the drug ... 

In the 1960s a lot of people on the frontiers of math experimented with psychedelic substances. There was a brief and extremely creative kiss between the community of hippies and top mathematicians. I know this because I was a purveyor of psychedelics to the mathematical community. 

For the Mazatecs, the psychedelic experience produced by the mushrooms is inseparably associated with the cure of illness. The idea of malady should be understood to mean not only physical illness, but mental... 

Salvinorin A is the primary psychoactive component of Salvia divinorum. a member of the sage family found in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Salvinorin A is the most potent naturally occurring psychedelic known, and in many ways the most enigmatic. Those using salvinorin A find it frequently induces experiences of an intensity level which is an order of magnitude beyond those experienced with any other psychedelic, even DMT. The dimensions visited under the influence of salvinorin A are described as extremely bizarre and varied, with several aspects not common to other psychedelic experiences. "... 

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