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About Psychedelic Information Theory Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason is an analysis of the physical mechanisms of hallucination, shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness. By deconstructing systems of ...

Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKM zeta

... 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 (PKMzeta). The effect was observed for at least several weeks after enc...

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... text may be reproduced for non-profit, non-commercial purposes under the condition that the author receives full credit and citation. Citation: Kent, James L. "Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason". PIT Press, Seattle, ...

Distant psychophysiological interaction effects between related and unrelated participants

The aim of this study is to investigate possible remote psychophysiological interactions between sensorially isolated participants, using a protocol of photic stimulation and EEG measurements. It is an attempt to conceptually replicate past finding...

Schizophrenia, dissociative anaesthesia and near-death experience; three events meeting at the NMDA receptor

The three events, viz. schizophrenia, dissociative anaesthesia and Near-Death Experience, despite their seemingly unrelated manifestation to each other, have nevertheless similar functional basis. All three events are linked to the glutamate sensitiv...

Brainwashing, LSD, and CIA: Historical and Ethical Perspective

... war, the Middle East Crisis, Watergate, the cia investigations and the Patty Hearst trial. Historical perspective and the ethical implications of these activities are explored. It is suggested that there is a growing level of individual and int...

Behavioral tolerance to lysergic acid diethylamide is associated with reduced serotonin-2A receptor signaling in rat cortex.

Tolerance is defined as a decrease in responsiveness to a drug after repeated administration. Tolerance to the behavioral effects of hallucinogens occurs in humans and animals. In this study, we used drug discrimination to establish a behavioral mode...

Notes on Weaponized Psychedelics

... the Manson Family, the SLA, Aum Shinrikyo, the cia, and the United States Department of Defense....

The Eye and Night Vision

The basic structure of the eye is shown in Figure 1. The anterior portion of the eye is essentially a lens system, made up of the cornea and crystalline lens, whose primary purpose is to focus light onto the retina. The retina contains receptor cells...

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