Ethno psychopharmacology
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This paper investigates the relationship between psychoactive substances and so-called paranormal phenomena falling within the study of parapsychology. It is primarily concerned with extrasensory perception (ESP)—telepathy, precognition,... more
... The past is resolving itself, allowing the meditator to live more fully in the present moment. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS I have not intended to suggest that all involuntary tremors and seizures which occur during meditation derive from... more
Entheogenic Plant Sentience – A private symposium. Tyringham Hall, September 2015. (Curator and compère) Video trailer for the event: https://vimeo.com/156248371 Anton Bilton, Dr David Luke & Rory Spowers Introduction from the... more
A novel published in 1933, describes the isolation of a hallucinogenic drug from an ergot-type fungus. It remarkably predates the discovery the hallucinogenic properties of the ergot-derived alkaloid lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) by... more
Shamans and artists have been perceived as similar across a variety of dimensions. Nonetheless, these similarities have not been systematically explored and are poorly understood. This study was designed to investigate these... more
Gustav Fechner, the German experimental psychologist, coined the term psychophysics in 1860, publishing the first mathematical equation to model human consciousness. Fechner assumed that any future approaches to consciousness would... more
DMT and other tryptamines. Chaired symposium. Breaking Convention: Multidisciplinary Conference of Psychedelic Consciousness, University of Greenwich, London, 12th-14th July, 2013. Videos: https://vimeo.com/76519380... more
This study uses a model of consciousness derived from LSD-assisted psychotherapy to illumine an enigmatic set of painful experiences that occur on the mystic's path known in Western circles as the "dark night."... more
Breaking Convention: The 2nd multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness. University of Greenwich, 12th -14th July, 2013. (Co-founder, co-director & host)
Dr Dennis McKenna - Is DMT a Chemical Messenger from an Extraterrestrial Civilization? Entheogenic Plant Sentience – A private symposium, Tyringham Hall, September 2015 (curator and compère)
Seminární práce pro předmět Dejiny psychologie na FF MU v Brně. Jedná se o můj první ucelený písemný projev na univerzitě, což je znát z nekritické zaujatosti, značného překročení délky textu, roztříštěnosti poznatků a adolescentní... more
Herein, I review the moment in my life when I awoke from the dream of self to find being as part of the living world. It was a sudden, momentous event that is difficult to explain since transcending the self ultimately requires... more
... Page 65. 48 Timothy Lambert and Trevor R. Norman Chiu et al., 1992; Lin & Finder, 1983; Lin et al., 1988b; Potkin et al., 1984; Lin etal., 1989; Ruiz et al., 1996; Jann etal., 1989; Jann et al., 1992; Zhang-Wong etal.,... more
À partir du début des années 1950, le développement de la psychopharmacologie a provoqué un grand élan d’optimisme en psychiatrie clinique. De nouvelles molécules permettaient d’envisager le traitement psychiatrique à l’extérieur de... more
Luke, D. P. (2009, April). The neurochemistry of psi and associated processes. Invited lecture for the ‘Psi and the Brain’ Study Day of the Society for Psychical Research, London, 25th April, 2009.
Provides an overview of the terms "spiritual emergence" and "spiritual emergency" and their application within transpersonal psychotherapy practices.