Psychedelics

Question 1

Entheogen/psychonaut definition

Answer 1

Entheogen = substance for spiritual purpose

Psychonaut = user of said substances for spirituality

Question 2

4 Effect groups of entheogens/examples?

Answer 2

1. Altered mood (weed)
2. “Augmented reality” (shrooms/LSD/Peyote)
3. Immersive/unreal (DMT/salvia)
4. Deliriants (BAD) = amanitas (red/white shrooms), datura

Question 3

McKenna: how we got here (3)

Answer 3

1. Stoned ape (drugs transformed us)
2. Dominator culture = bad (hierarchy, misogyny,)
3. Archaic Revival w/entheogens

Question 4

McKenna: where we’re going

Answer 4

1. Influenced by good interdimensional ETs
2. DMT = machine elves contact
3. Humans will evolve into these beings (2012 Mayan apocalypse)

Question 5

McKenna Esoteric/New Age crossover (ETs, Gaian, Stoned Ape, Revival)

Answer 5

ETs: mediation, channeling

Gaian spirituality: LN, primitivism

Drugs = healing/transmutation

Stoned Ape = “Science”

Revival = “eschatology”

Question 6

Huxley (era, substances, contributions)

Answer 6

Huxley (50-60s), mescaline/peyote, entheogens X Hindu/buddhist enlightenment

Question 7

Leary (era, drugs, contributions)

Answer 7

60s, shrooms/LSD, drugs = transformative, weird Harvard experiments, 8-circuit consciousness (new age/UFO themes)

Question 8

Castaneda (era, drugs, contributions)

Answer 8

60s-70s, a bit of everything, rel. to chaos magick, “apprenticeship to ind sorcerer” (later found fictional)