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Contents: Psychedelic Information Theory

• Prologue: Late Night Notes from the Alien Hybrid Messiah

• Preface
  • In Search of Answers: A Personal History and Context
  • Basic Premises, Goals, Methodologies, and Defintions

• Part 1: Psychedelic Overview
  • Psychedelics as Primal Medium: A Brief History
  • Delusion vs Reality: On the Validity of Psychedelic Experience
  • Psychedelic Information Theory
  • Modes of Psychedelic Use
  • Pyschedelic Rules
  • Words of Caution to the Would Be Shaman
  • So What is Shamanism?

• Part 2: Brain, Mind, Perception, and Altered States
  • Mechanics of Perception and Thought
    • Neural Basics: Structure and Function
    • Neurotransmitters & Neuromodulators: the Psychedelic Connection
    • This is Your Brain
    • Parsing Reality: The Senses
  • This is Your Brain on Psychedelics
    • The Metabolic Tripping Curve in Detail
    • Psychedelics, Dissociatives, and Delirients : Different Drugs, Different Dosages, Different Actions
    • Strange Brews: Psychedelic Cocktails & Multi-Drug Effecting
  • Neural Models of Altered Perception
  • Neurologic Deconstruction of Psychedelic Phenomena in Detail
    • Cognitive Phenomena
      • Expanded Consciousness: Lifting the Veil
      • Hyper-associative States, Synchronicities, Isomorphisms, & The Universal Pattern
      • Grokking, Deep Interpretation, & Hyperprofundity
      • Epiphanies & Moments of Clarity
      • Schizophrenia & Control
      • Messianic Ideation & Delusions of Grandeur
      • OBEs, Astral Encounters, & Deep Trance States
      • The Cosmic Punchline
    • Emotional Phenomena
      • The Dark Side
      • The Pathos of Homo sapiens
      • Fear, Anxiety & Paranoia
      • Mania & Hysterical Freakouts
      • Isolation, Despair, & Alienation
      • Obsessive, Compulsive, Impulsive, and Passive Aggressive Behavior
      • The Light Side
      • Confusion & Enlightenment
      • Distortions of Self & Ego Loss
      • Empathy & Soul Bonding
      • Integration, Harmony, & Unity
      • Epiphany & Ecstacy
      • Catharsis & Release
      • Bliss, Peace, & Love
    • Somatic Phenomena
      • Dilation & Respiration: The Autonomic Responses
      • Heightened & Diminished Somatic Awareness
      • Body Image Distortion & Tactile Hallucination
      • Coordination & Grace
      • Anxiety & Restlessness
      • Nausea, Malaise, & Somatic Heaviness
      • Body Transparency & Boundary Dissolution
      • Hypnogogic and Lucid Dream States
      • Catatonia & Deep Body Consciousness
      • Catalepsy & Spontaneous Yoga
    • Audio Phenomena
      • Sharpened, Dulled, or Distorted Hearing
      • Audio Babble & White Noise
      • Garbled Parsing, Gibberish, & Audio Flicker Distortions
      • Ringing Tones, Ascending/Descending Tones & other Smooth Wave Functions
      • Pitch & Tonality Shifts
      • Loops & Echoes
      • Disincarnate Voices & Laughter
      • Phantom Music
      • Audio Synesthesia
      • Frank Audio Hallucinations
    • Temporal Phenomena
      • Speeding up and Slowing Down of Perception
      • Frame Skipping and Sequence Inversion
      • Strobing and Flickering
      • Timelessness & The Illusuion of Linear Time
      • Missing Time, Dimensional Splits, & Extreme Temporal Anomolies
    • Open-Eye Visual Phenomena
      • Visual Accuity & Magnification
      • Halos & Superluminesence
      • Trails, Double Vision, & Frame Flanging
      • Altered Perspective & Spacial Distortions
      • Cartoon Perception & Visual Rotoscoping
      • Creeping Carpets & Melting Walls
      • Fractal Textures & Geometric Overlays
      • Fluid Patterns & Emergent Imagery
      • Visual Synesthesia
      • Frank Visual Hallucinations
    • Closed-Eye Visual Phenomena
      • The Imaginary Theater: Turning on the Light Inside
      • Phosphenes, Fractals, & Mandalas
      • Tunnels, Matrices, Morphing Fields
      • Active Memory, the Lucid Dreamspace, & Imaginal Rendering
      • Spirits, Angels, Demons, & Helper Entities
    • Dream States, Regressive States, & Frank Hallucinations
      • Frank Hallucinations: Getting Fully Immersive
      • The Dream Journey
      • Immersive Memory & the Deep Dreamspace
      • Memories Past, Future, and Other Parallel Dimensions, Past Lives & Alternate Universes
      • The Void and Beyond
      • Death & Rebirth: Rebooting the System
  • The Symphonic Trip: Putting it All Together
    • Spirit Guides and Heroic Journeys: Roots of Psychedelic Narrative & Thematic Presentation
    • The Pan-Global Experience: Examing Psychedelic Archetypes in Detail

• Part 3: Metaphysics, Magic, Mysticism, & Medicine : Practical & Paranormal Applications of Psychedelic Mind States
  • Psychedelic Super Senses: Enhanced, Augmented, and Irregular Functions of Brain
    • Expanded Consciousness, Sensual Acuity, & Open-Channel Awareness
    • Metabolic Control, Harmonic Homeostasis, & Resonant Expression
    • Temporal Depth, Deep Structural Awareness, & Quantum Perception
    • Immediate Precognition & Reverse Causality
    • Beating the Odds: Hyper-Lucidity, Intuition, Luck, & Synchronicity
    • Gnostic Insight & Enlightenment
    • Making Contact with God, the Alien, or the Other
    • Genetic Identity & Root Imperatives
  • ESP, Emotional Communication, & Brainwave Entrainment
    • Alpha, Beta, Delta: Brain State Fundamentals
    • Entrainment: Drivers and Receivers
    • Body Language, Pheromones, Animal Magnetism, and other Non-verbal Amplifiers
    • Harmonic Vibrations & Resonant Interactions Between Minds
    • Empathy, Non-Verbal Communication, & Ego Transparency
    • Psychic Bonding, Transpersonal Intuition, & Mind Reading
    • ESP, Telepathy, & Group Mind
    • Hypnosis, Mind Control, & Brainwashing
  • The Living Field
    • Chi, Gaia, God: The Force & The Flow
    • Getting to the Bottom of It: What is It?
    • Genetic Memory: What's DNA Got to Do With It?
    • Spirits in the Material World
    • Manipulating the Field
  • Psychedelic Medicine, Therapy & Shamanic Healing
    • Healing the Ghost in the Machine
    • Psychosis as a Therapeutic Agent
    • Navigating the Healing Journey
    • Psychedelics as a Diagnostic Tool
    • Psychedelics as Autoimmune Stimulator
    • Chi, Energy Channels, & Hands-On Therapy
    • Language Therapy & Metaprogramming
    • Repression, Blocked Channels, & Obsessive/Destructive Loops
    • Karmic Cleansing, Removed Perspectives, Empathy, & Forgiveness
    • Entheogens & Catharsis
    • Restoration of Faith & Vision
    • Catalyst for Creation
  • Spurious, Specious & Suspect Claims
    • Somatic: Shape-Shifting, Faith Healing, Mind Reading
    • Spirit: Elves, Aliens, Angels, Demons, Fairies
    • Astral: Channelling, Spirit Hosting, Remote Viewing, OBE, Shape Shifting, Dimension Walking
    • Temporal: Time-Travel, Long-Range Precognition, & Past-Life Regression
    • Messianic: Hipster Gurus, Self-Styled Messiahs, & False Prophets
  
  
• Part 4: Psychedelic Culture, Community, Society, & Religion
  • In Search of The Divine Whatever
  • Deep Mythology and the Old Ones
  • Alienation & The Modern World: Notes on Pathological and Anti-Social Behavior
  • Pagan Revivals & The Awakening of Transpersonal Identity
  • Cultural Experimentation & Spontaneous Communities
  • Have our Elders Led us Astray?
  • Who is the Psychedelic Community?
  • Underground Research in Delicate Times
  • Pop Culture Eats the Weird
  • Pushing Through 2012, and Beyond
  • The Promise of a Psychedelic Future
  
  
• Appendix 1. Notes
• Appendix 2. Full Disclosure: About the Author
• Glossary of Terms
• Bibliography