The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys.

Effects of a Psychedelic, Tropical Tea, Ayahuasca, on the Electroencephalographic (EEG) Activity of the Human Brain During a Shamanistic Ritual

This dissertation opens the doorway to the recognition inthe United States of the potential for the reversal of organicillness through the use of the entheogen ayahuasca, an agentknown as a “Divine Intelligence”. This sacred drink has beenused for millennia by over seventy indigenous groups in theUpper Amazon and Orinoco basin for healing, shamanic journeys and divination. (...

Explorer's guide to the semantic web

Shamanic origins of religion and medicine.

When we mention "the world's second oldest profession," everyone understands immediately the ladies to whom we refer. But when we speak of "the world's oldest profession," these individuals are not so immediately identified. The world's oldest profession is that of the shaman or first professional, the shaman is ancestor not only to both the modern medicine man or doctor and the religionis prie...

Qualitative and Quantitative Features of Music Reported to Support Peak Mystical Experiences during Psychedelic Therapy Sessions

Psilocybin is a classic (serotonergic) hallucinogen ("psychedelic" drug) that may occasion mystical experiences (characterized by a profound feeling of oneness or unity) during acute effects. Such experiences may have therapeutic value. Research and clinical applications of psychedelics usually include music listening during acute drug effects, based on the expectation that music will provide p...

Psychedelic experiences associated with a novel hypnotic procedure, mutual hypnosis.

One of the most intriguing aspects of hypnosis has been its ability to produce, ia the best Ss, very unusual subjective experiences. In the past decade these phenomena have been largely overlooked, as the emphasis in hypnosis research has been on the development of objective measures of suggestibility (Shor & Orne, 1962; Weitzenhoffer & Hilgard, 1959; 1962; 1963), the nature of hypnotic suggest...