Schizophrenia exists on a spectrum... As with Autism, there are many shades of schizotypal symptoms. While not florid psychosis, the hypersensitivity of low LI often goes hand in hand with visionary or hypnagogic-type sensory phenomena.

Those are what are referred to as positive symptoms. The negative symptoms, the thought disorder, for instance, ( Read more... )

State-Dependent Perception (SPD) - distinct perceptual experience and phenomenal properties (qualia) bound to a given discrete state-of-consciousness, characterizing what it is like to enter that state ( Read more... )

The Amazon JungleI flew into Lima, Peru and checked into a beautiful antique Spanish colonial building downtown, a mansion which had been converted into a hotel. I was given a cheap cubby room under the staircase - less than ideal, but I was just happy to crash heavily with my bags and relax after my long trip South ( Read more... )

Shamanic Experiences - A Letter to Dr. Stanley Krippner, Parapsychologist

Thank you for agreeing to read my story, and it is my hope that you have some insight as to how best to understand and proceed.

I suppose I should begin with some family history background. My grandmother's grandmother was a shaman of the Sami tradition of Lappland, in the ( Read more... )

A toast to the next dimension! As it approaches, closer and closer, to the thin surface which divides us from the inner worlds and their perception. The number of words required to describe a graph of higher dimensionality outweigh the ef
fort of simply drawing it, to be seen. The effort required to draw this graph outweighs the simple act dropping ( Read more... )

The ascent to a higher bandwidth of consciousness is an inward motion -- that is to say, a non-physical motion. This inward expanse is traversed, in a very literal sense, via a change in subjective depth.  Inward depth can be mapped and understood in terms of frequency, like anything else; when arranged as a spectrum, specific and highly ( Read more... )

Neurons use specific compounds, neurotransmitters, to transfer specific messages to one another. But, in fact, the neurotransmitter, itself, is not a message, per se, but a specialized substance used to induce a specific internal state upon uptake by the postsynaptic cell. Generally, this reception, regardless of the neurotransmitter received, ( Read more... )

Interestingly, another recent study found that when Americans were given the chance to construct their version of the optimal wealth gradient for America, both Republicans and Democrats came up with a chart that looked like Sweden’s. There’s no need to insult the meat in the land of lutefisk.

Novelty, what is time?

Novelty, complexity and advanced ( Read more... )

The miracles and visionary states which form the basis of most of religion have roots in a set of non-ordinary states of consciousness (Grof, 1997).  Many of these non-ordinary states were induced using psychedelic substances (like the amanita muscaria mushroom), many occurred by means of other tools or techniques (like fasting, or meditation), and ( Read more... )

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