Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... related to serotonergic and cholinergic visual processing, as well as the auditory, olfactory, and tactile senses... Kent's clear trail through volumes of research gave me a solid understanding of how rod and cone vision, phosphenes, the vi...
... can become kaleidoscopic as layers in the visual frame mirror themselves, stack, drift, and merge. But because the update and release of perceptual layers still falls under the classification of temporal aliasing and filling, the general mode...
This paper is concerned with a striking visual experience: that of seeing geometric visual hallucinations. Hallucinatory images were classified by Klüver into four groups called form constants comprising (i) gratings, lattices, fretworks, filigrees,...
Role of GABAB receptor-mediated inhibition in reciprocal interareal pathways of rat visual cortex
... and patch-clamp recordings in slices of rat visual cortex we studied the balance of excitation and inhibition in different intracortical pathways. The study was focused on the strength of fast GABAA- and slow GABAB-mediated inhibition in intera...
... anatomy and physiology of the thalamocortical-visual system of the cat, and have been shown in a companion paper to produce episodes of fast synchronous activity at multiple levels. By carrying out the perturbation analysis, we established that n...
5-HT2A Agonism and Multisensory Binding
Most visual hallucinogens are active as full or partial agonists at the 5-HT2A receptor subtype, and all produce similar visual hallucinations that are immediately recognizable as psychedelic.1 Although the 5-HT2A receptor subtype is not the only rec...
Crude cognitive schematic of waking consciousness
... at the left with the two inputs (audio and visual) you can chart the flow of signal through the various processing levels until you ultimately arrive at output, or behavior, with a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. We don't perceive anyt...
... For fMRI, these changes were observed in visual brain areas 18 and 19 (Brodmann areas). One of the subjects replicated the results. CONCLUSIONS: These data replicate previous findings suggesting that correlated neural signals may be detected...
Information Genesis and Complexity
... all creation, or the invisible landscape. The visual representation of this living energy field is most acute under the influence of tryptamine hallucinogens such as psilocybin and ayahuasca (DMT), and the source of this field is often perceived ...
Spirits and Spiritual Communion
... they often speak in riddles, communicate in visual rebus and pantomime, and typically never give you a straight answer to inquiries. From an information standpoint it does not matter if the spirits are real or delusion, the information they gen...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... takes the psychedelic medicine in order to visualize a flickering grid of patterns and symbols crawling across the surface of the patient. These ayahuasca patterns are embedded into Shipibo textiles, ceramics, tattoos, and all forms of tribal ...
Biophilic fractals and the visual journey of organic screen-savers
... constitute a central feature of our daily visual experiences throughout our lives. This intimate association raises a crucial question - does exposure to fractals have a positive impact on our mental and physical condition? This question rais...
What is Nonlinear Hallucination?
... pitch and volume of stimulus. Auditory echoes, visual motion trails, and phantom tactile sensations are recursive artifacts of perceptual frame feedback. Perceiving multiple subjective perspectives for the same input is a nonlinear bifurcation of ...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... there must be electrochemical stimulation in the visual cortex. If you are making the case for spirit beings or invisible landscapes that can only be seen under the influence of psychedelics, you are making a case for the human brain having a secret...
Psi-verts and Psychic Piracy: The Future of Parapsychology?
... their brain randomly stimulated, usually through visual stimulation, such as a flash of bright lights. These visual stimulations are known to reliably cause easily observable reactions in the brain of the person directly perceiving them. What is not...
... multiscale transforms seem to appear in the visual cortex of mammals. This was an important motivation to further study the application of such transforms to image analysis. To explain the impact of wavelets for lowlevel vision, we concentra...
Wavelets, vision and the statistics of natural scenes
The processing of spatial information by the visual system shows a number of similarities to the wavelet transforms that have become popular in applied mathematics. Over the last decade, a range of studies have focused on the question of ‘why&#...
Whale song art: dolphin calls turned into kaleidoscopic patterns using wavelets
... engineer Mark Fischer and transformed into visuals using a mathematical tool called wavelets...
Communion with the Infinite: The visual music of the Shipibo people of the Amazon
... the person. The shaman in effect transforms the visual code into an acoustic code. A key element in this magical dialogue with the energy which permeates Creation and is embedded in the Shipibo designs, is the work with ayahuasca by the Shipibo sha...
Notes on Daydreaming and Visual Imagination
The low rendering capacity of human visual imagination is taken from a survey of subjective reports. The quality of internal visualization can only be enhanced by closing the eyes for a few moments and falling into a state more like meditating or day...
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