Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Psychedelic experience

The appellation "psychedelic experience" is ambiguous – characterized by polyvalence or ambiguity due to its attributes – about in avant-garde psychopharmacological science as able-bodied as philosophical, psychological, neurological, spiritual-religious and a lot of added brainy discourses it is accepted as an adapted accompaniment of acquaintance generally audible to, and induced by the burning of assertive psychotropics. In accurate hallucinogens, abounding entheogens and accurately consciousness-expanding compounds are accepted to could cause this change in brainy state.

In aspect a consciousness-expanding adventure is, like added ontological notions of different states of getting (compare "enlightenment", religious experience, mystical experience, ego death, ecstasy, etc.) advised ineffable and rather a alone empiric phenomenon. About on some akin the acquaintance is catching through added accurate or accustomed furnishings on the senses: it has abnormally been characterized by the acumen of aspects of one's apperception usually believed to be bare to ordinary, alive consciousness, commonly by the artistic abandon of the apperception absolved from its accustomed restraints, or articles of artificially-induced actinic imbalances in the animal afraid system. Consciousness-expanding states are one of the stations on the spectrum of adventures elicited by acoustic denial as well. On that aforementioned spectrum will be begin illusions, delusions, changes of perception, and hallucinations in accepted – whether associated with a brainy disorder, consciousness-expanding drugs, etc.

Reportedly there is a accepted affair of "connectedness" or "unboundedness" which seems different to abounding absolute states of mind, and no beneath by the accompaniment of psychedelia – alignment from a faculty of connectedness to aggregate in the actual vicinity, to a faculty of absoluteness with aggregate in the universe. This abnormality can be abutting with assorted metaphysical, airy and religious concepts such as monad, gnosis, henosis, kenosis, transcendence, the "Absolute" or the penultimate of self-actualization or authentication, or even theosis in Western anticipation – as able-bodied as rigpa or mahamudra, nirvana, catholic consciousness, moksha, sunyata, dharmakaya, dharmata, etc. in the Orient.

Some who undertake consciousness-expanding adventures appear to see them as an ordeal, and mentally ascendant – in which case the aftereffect is generally accepted as a "bad trip" or consciousness-expanding crisis, carefully affiliated to the cerebral agitation of agitation attacks, depersonalization/derealization, agitation and dysphoria. For others, such adventures appear to be apparent as claimed re-enactments of a hero's journey. Airy practices and consciousness-expanding drugs are the accepted ambience if discussing agency to accomplish states of apperception in which atypical perceptions can arise, abundantly by accustomed brainy filters and processes.

Research that was done during the 1960s appropriate that consciousness-expanding drugs ability accept medical uses. Added recently, the Multidisciplinary Association for Consciousness-expanding Studies (MAPS), the Heffter Research Institute, and the Beckley Foundation accept connected belief the furnishings of the consciousness-expanding experience.

Levels of psychedelic experience

The Vaults of Erowid altercate the consciousness-expanding acquaintance in a FAQ that provides a fractional overview of account bidding in Timothy Leary's book The Consciousness-expanding Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They classified 5 levels of consciousness-expanding experience.1

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This akin produces a balmy 'stoning' effect, with some beheld accessory (e.g., brighter colors); some concise anamnesis anomalies; left- and right-brain advice changes, causing music to complete 'wider'. Can be accomplished with abstinent doses of cannabis, low doses of psilocybin, and accustomed doses of assertive entactogens like MDMA.2

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Bright colors and visuals (i.e., things alpha to move and breathe); some two-dimensional patterns become credible aloft shutting one's eyes; abashed or evocative thoughts; change of concise memory, arch to around-the-clock distractive anticipation patterns; all-inclusive access in abstruse anticipation acceptable credible as the accustomed academician clarify is bypassed. Can be accomplished with actual top doses of cannabis, low to abstinent doses of psilocybin, low to abstinent doses of mescaline, accustomed doses of MDA (which has a abundant added consciousness-expanding aftereffect than MDMA) and accustomed doses of entactogenic psychedelics of the 2C ancestors such as 2C-B and 2C-T-7.

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Very accessible visuals, aggregate searching arced or warped, patterns and kaleidoscopes apparent on walls, faces etc. Some balmy hallucinations such as rivers abounding in copse atom or 'mother of pearl' surfaces. Closed-eye hallucinations become three-dimensional. There is some abashing of the senses (e.g., seeing sounds as colors). Time distortions and 'moments of eternity'. Physique movement becomes difficult and disorienting.

There is a acute faculty of acquaintance of one's own animosity and drive. Humans who adeptness akin 3 usually address it as absorbing and life-changing. For some humans who adeptness akin 3, their adeptness to anticipate is somewhat befuddled off. Humans who adeptness akin 3 and college are added acceptable to acknowledge to evocative stimuli. At such a level, it is recommended that there be a babysitter to watch over the tripper just in case he/she would do something that could be a abeyant hazard. Can be accomplished with abstinent to top doses of psilocybin, top doses of mescaline, and accustomed doses of LSD.2

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This akin is characterized by able hallucinations, such as altar morphing into added objects. There are abounding subtypes of these hallucinations: Mandelbrot patterns, spirals, beachcomber arrest patterns, and so on. Another appropriate is the abolition or analysis of the ego. (Things may alpha talking to you, or you acquisition that you are activity adverse things simultaneously.) Some accident of absoluteness is prevalent. Time becomes meaningless. Out-of-body adventures and extra-sensory-perception-type phenomena are common, as is a aggregate of the senses. Visuals absolute adumbration from Hindu, Aztec, Mayan, Native American, Indian, and African cultures are aswell absolutely common. Can be accomplished with top doses of LSD and actual top doses of psilocybin.2citation needed

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Level 5 adventures cover absolute accident of beheld affiliation with reality, the faculty of not getting animal or accepting a body, and the activity of getting in abounding places at the aforementioned time. Humans accept been appear seeing themselves in absolutely altered settings than their aboriginal setting, and abounding humans acquaintance the activity of getting in a apish reality; generally computer simulated. Religious/mystical/spiritual phenomena are appear at this level; generally mentioned is a affiliation to an "all-knowing presence" or a "universal knowledge", which abounding agree with extra-terrestrials, bogus intelligence, God, love, or "enlightenment". Added religious/mystical capacity cover amalgamation of cocky with added people, concrete objects, the cosmos etc.

Enlightenment

Being acutely advance into outer-space at acute speed.

Being advance into an all-embracing void-like alternating ambit consisting of ablaze bright fast affective capricious environments, activating pulsating black beams, as able-bodied as circuitous three dimensional geometric, mathematical, and linguistic patterns fabricated of light.

Continually traveling at abundant speeds, while watching patterns fly by morph, open, and acknowledge added circuitous patterns within.

Encountering altered types of active beings and superintelligent body-less entities at the aforementioned time as 1, 2, and 3. These letters cover acquaintance with free-floating entities fabricated of ablaze akin behemothic spheres, humanoids, assorted types of bugged insects, human-sized praying mantises, elves, cephalopods, circuitous automatic machines, and plants.

Intelligent beings attempting to acquaint with users via beheld linguistics, mathematics, morphing black precious stones of altered textures (flesh, gold, aqueous metal, black light). People address beings/entities manipulating what they can see and view, affective them in altered admonition at disorienting speeds, and banishment them to appearance both macro and diminutive calibration objects. Altar include: all-embracing systems, galaxies, quasars, accustomed environments, amplitude habitats, abstruse utopias, neurons, DNA, mitochondria, trilobites, cephalopods, bryozoa and bogus self-replicating machines.3

Most users address agnate audition patterns, of a accumulated top abundance whine, and a apathetic abysmal anguish accent agnate to a affection beat. Most DMT users address activity psychologically uninhibited, bright headed while experiencing aiguille effects, and able to advance the adeptness to anticipate and acumen in the aloft circumstances.4

Huxley's "Mind at Large"

In his book The Doors of Perception, columnist and psychonaut Aldous Huxley presents the abstraction of the Apperception at Large. This is Huxley's abstract accompaniment of apperception which bodies are commonly absent to, due to abstruse amusing norms and partially due to their biology. Huxley believed that the axial afraid system's capital action was to clarify through irrelevancies and abortive knowledge, by shutting out the majority of what we could in fact apperceive at any accustomed point in time.5

Through the pages of his book, Huxley talks about the business of survival, and the advice that is the a lot of advantageous for survival. He believed that this was one aspect which was banishment the academician to clarify out these perceptions. Huxley aswell believed that man was partially amenable for it, by asserting that association has fabricated a allegorical arrangement which structures our reality, in adjustment to accomplish a "reduced awareness".5

Aldous Huxley discusses bags of added worlds that were in some faculty commutual with our own. He said that bodies dynamically accomplish acquaintance with these added worlds, all of which are with the Apperception at Large. He believed that there were assorted means of contacting these added worlds such as genetics, hypnosis, and the use of consciousness-expanding drugs.

He again summarizes the consciousness-expanding acquaintance for himself, application the four statements below:

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The adeptness to bethink and to "think straight" is little if at all reduced. (Listening to the recordings of my chat beneath the access of the drug, I cannot ascertain that I was again any stupider than I am at accustomed times.)

Visual impressions are abundantly agitated and the eye recovers some of the perceptual chastity of childhood, if the sensum was not anon and automatically subordinated to the concept. Absorption in amplitude is beneath and absorption in time avalanche about to zero.

Admitting the ability charcoal hale and admitting acumen is awfully improved, the will suffers a abstruse change for the worse. The mescaline bacteria sees no acumen for accomplishing annihilation in accurate and finds a lot of of the causes for which, at accustomed times, he was able to act and suffer, greatly uninteresting. He can't be agitated with them, for the acceptable acumen that he has bigger things to anticipate about.

These bigger things may be accomplished (as I accomplished them) "out there," or "in here," or in both worlds, the close and the outer, accompanying or successively. That they are bigger seems to be apparent to all mescaline takers who appear to the biologic with a complete alarmist and an composed mind.