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Re:An essay on the phenomenology of DMT (2016) by empath75 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:08AM (#15372282)
Yeah this is pretty much standard ‘psychonaut’ theorizing about ‘what it all means, man’. We need less of this and more actual research. What dmt and lsd and similar drugs do to the mind is near miraculous, and if we want to understand consciousness, understanding how these drugs act to warp it so thoroughly seems like an important step.

But what this guy is doing is not it.

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Re:An essay on the phenomenology of DMT (2016) by azeirah on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:33AM (#15372576)
So who's going to do that real research? I appreciate this psychonaut because he's at least trying, and seems fairly serious about his interest.

If you'd turn the perspective around, and instead of letting "actual researchers" perform the research, how'd you approach training interested psychonauts to perform useful research? Even if it's in a more informal manner?

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Re:An essay on the phenomenology of DMT (2016) by CuriouslyC on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:39AM (#15372595)
The problem with research into this sort of thing is that "increases in overal entropy of neural firing patterns and correlation between visuospatial and prefrontal firing." reduces the experience to the point of banality.

What we really need is more philosophers who are well versed in science to have these experiences, and to try and reinterpret the world from this alternate perspective.

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Re:An essay on the phenomenology of DMT (2016) by beepboopbeep on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:31PM (#15375761)
You are very clearly not aware of the current research.
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Re:An essay on the phenomenology of DMT (2016) by CuriouslyC on Monday October 02, 2017 @12:41PM (#15385358)
I'm aware of whatever gets popular press or a write up in nautilus/aeon, and I browse /r/science daily. Please provide links to these interesting, under-shared studies.
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Re:An essay on the phenomenology of DMT (2016) by beepboopbeep on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @04:52PM (#15396077)
To start: Google Johns Hopkins, Psilocybin
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Re:An essay on the phenomenology of DMT (2016) by cyberpunk0 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @11:46AM (#15373392)
I volunteer.
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