If you were going to write a textbook on psychonautics, what would the main chapters and sub chapters be titled? Here is my own short list to get things started.
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PsychoNautics;

A. Table of Contents
B. Foreward
C. Prologue
D. Introduction

1. The Tao of Self
2. The Tao of Malkut/Tiferet
3. Inwer Cosm
4. Grounding and Centering
5. Cleansing and Purifying
6. Representational Schema
7. Ritual
8. Full Stop
9. Beta States
10. Alpha States
11. Delta States
12. Somnambulistic Trance (Hypnogogia)
13 Lucid Visualization
14. Dreams
15. Tarota Labrys
16. Theta States
17. Shamanic Music
18. The Aspects of Self
19. The Psychonauts Key
20. The Tree of Life
21 Behavior and State
22. Creating State Specific Social Contracts
23. Contact Improv
24. Totemism
25. Satyrian Psychonautica
26. Dragon Psychonautica
27. Faery Psychonautica
28. Imp Psychonautica
29. The ALLY and the FORCE
30. Entheogenic Protocols
31. Meditative Breathe
32. Meditative Movement
33. Meditative Thought
34. The Force of Atttention
35. Tribalism
36. Brain region, Function, and State
37. Psychonautic Atlas
A. Psychonaut Reports
B. Shaman Reports
C. Mage Reports
D. Schematization of Experiences

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Index
Glossary





A '''Psychonaut''' (literally, a sailor of the psyche) is a person who uses [[Trance Technologies]] From any of the Worlds religions,
Modern Psychology, and other assorted Paradigms, to explore the psyche, their own consciousness, and potentially improve real performance of certain psychological tasks. Some Psychonauts use[[psychoactive]] [[Entheogen]]s as guides, or means, to achieve inward spiritual experiences, and who reflects upon these experiences and applies them to his or her own life in a positive way, with the [[intent]] of bettering himself or herself. This is quite distinct from religious use, or social and leisure use of [[Recreational drug use|drugs]], although invariably these overlap.



==Origin of the term==

According to [[Jonathan Ott]], the word Psychonaut was originally coined by the [[Germany|German]] author [[Ernst Jünger]]


==Use of the term==



Psychonaut is a modern term, used to describe one who uses

[[Trance Technologies]], and sometimes, more specifically, mind-altering substances more with a view to their ability to act as entheogens, than for their inebriating (or social) effect. In effect, they are used as a means to achieve states of mind in which different perceptions unhindered by everyday mental filters and processes, can arise.


As such, their effects, used with this intent, can be life altering, and are not considered by their proponents to be mere hallucinations. An alternate description is that while some aspects of the experience may be hallucinatory, the realizations caused by those hallucinations, and the mental, emotional and long term impact of the experience, is real, usually positive, and enduring.

==Shamanic Perspective of Hallucination==



The Shamanic Perspective of Hallucination is that there is no such thing as something which is "not real." Shamans choose to see
Visions, Hallucinations, and so forth as real communication from
other parts of the psyche, which are normally veiled from the conscious mind by brain hemisphere filters. (Without these filters,
the internal dialogue process would overwhelm the conscious mind,
as is possibly the case with [[Autism]] )

Shamans generate assorted cosmologies which include the Psychic realms, and thus from their perspective, a Hallucination is a real
event that happens on a different level of reality.


== PsychoNautica

==1. Brain Anatomy==
The most important Paradigm to the Serious PsychoNaut is Brain Anatomy. PsychoNautics is the attempt to generate a Users manual
for the human Brain. Unlike its near cousin, [[psychology]]
which is concerned with understanding other people, PsychoNauts
are more concerned with understanding themselves, and the process
of self exploration

==Hemispheres of Brain

There are Several different areas of the Brain, Which are Known by Science to carry out specific functions. Science knows about this
mostly due to [[Electroencephalography]]And experiments where Brain
waves are monitored while a subject is given different kinds of problems to solve or subjected to different kinds of stimulus.

( or, under the effect of a psychoactive substance.)


The Main Areas of the Brain are
*1. The Brain Stem
*2. The Reptilian Brain
*3. The Limbic System
*4. The Mammalian Brain
*5. The Neo-Cortex
*6. The Occipital Lobes
*7. The Left Hemisphere Lobes
*8. The Right Hemisphere Lobes


==Process Typing Functions==

The Brain deals with different kinds of tasks by devoting
small sections of itself to deal with those types of tasks
There are thus different types of internal dialogue operating in different places in he mind. Verbal Linguistic Information is confined mostly to the Neo-Cortex and a smaller region called Wernickes area. Mathematical and Logical Types of operations seem<o:p></o:p>
to be carried out predominantly in the left or right hemisphere, depending on whether the person is left or right "handed".
Movement is mostly handled by the Reptilian Brain and the Brain Stem. (etc)

== Brainwaves==

By using an Electroencephalograph, Scientists can measure the Electrical outputs of the Brain. There are four main different
kinds of waves that they have found, and each corresponds roughly
to a different state of consciousness.

*a [[Beta]] [[Brain]] [[Waves]] [[Brain Waves]]
*b [[Alpha]] [[Alpha Brain waves]]
*c [[Delta]] [[Delta Brain waves]]
*d [[Theta]] [[Theta Brain waves]]

== [[The Tree of Life]]==

Is A [[Qaballah]] or [[Esoteric]] [[Judaism]]
Reality model which describes essentially a bell curve,
and potentials for [[phase]] alignment. The Tree can be used as a map
to place over the entire body, as a map to place over the Torso, or as a map of states of consciousness assuming state definitions for
the Neo-Cortex.

== [[Totemic]] [[Mythic]] [[Architecture]][[T.M.A.]]==
PsychoNauts attempt to understand Hallucinations as communication
from the psyche. To do this requires an elevated understanding
of subliminal symbolism, particularly the Imagerial/Dreamspeak code
of the Mammalian Brain and Occipital Lobes.

== [[Dream Journals]]==

A very important tool for the Psychonaut, A dream Journal

acts as the starting point for the PsychoNaut to create a personal

encyclopedia of their own symbolic internal dialogue.


==[[Lucid Dreaming

Some might say that Entheogens are EASY, If you want something HARD
Try Lucid Dreaming. The Results are the same, but one has a very
different cost.
To a Psychonaut, Lucid Dreaming is a prequel to Psycho actives,
setting a stage for them to learn self/ trip control. A person who
is control of their dreams can similarly learn to control their
Hallucinations.
== [[Sleep Deprivation

Another very important tool of the PsychoNaut, Again, Entheogens
are EASY, if you want something HARD with the same results, Try
staying awake for 1 week. Sleep Deprivation teaches a Psychonautcontrol over their own State of consciousness. When we sleep, we
go through the four brainwave patterns. Delta condition is deep rest,
and Theta Condition is Physiological upkeep, and healing.
Most people never experience a waking condition other than a Beta state. This is unfortunate, because Alpha, Delta, And Theta States
are difficult to be in while still awake, but if you can manage it,
you can use the mind in remarkable ways most people can't.

== [[Sensory Deprivation]]==


A very important Tool, especially for use with low Power Entheogens.
For some people, Total Darkness in a cave is more than enough to Alter their state of consciousness. Alpha condition is to some degree a physiological response to darkness

[[Trance Technologies
Come from any Religion, Any Culture, Many different Sciences, and Multiple perspectives. However, in the modern era, most people can't
escape the waking Beta condition except by sleep. This tells us that
Trance Technologies have not been transmitted to the general population. [[Herd Mentality]] [[Groupthink]] [[Propaganda
[[Politics]] [[Religion

== [[Instinct, Memory, Symbol

Three areas of the brain have an interesting relationship with
each other. The Reptilian Brain stores instinct, which is very similar to [[Maslows' Hierarchy of Needs]] The instinct drives us to
act, which creates Memories in different regions of the Brain, but mostly in the Mammalian Brain. Symbols then form a Top Bar over that
up/down line, forming a figure T. The Neo-Cortex processes most verbal
Linguistic information, but the occipital Lobes process images. These
aspects of self end up relating within the Psyche, and PsychoNautics
primary concern is to increase the efficiency of that internal dialogue.

== [[motion, communication, fore thinker, planner]]==

Motion is primarily handled by the Brain Stem and the Reptilian
Brain, Communication is handled by the Neo-Cortex and the Mammalian
Brain, thinking ahead is handled in several places, but mostly in the neo-cortical region and in the [[Temporal Lobes]] this again creates a set of relationships between areas of the brain.


==[[Egotism]]==

From the PsychoNauts perspective, the greatest sin of Egotism
is that over identification with the Ego mind eclipses other regions
of the brain


==[[Ethnocentrism
is the field function of Egotism; The Egoic principle projected into
ones group, culture, or society. Ethnocentrism is the logical fallacy, and rationale, behind [[Fascism]] and [[Totalitarianism]] PsychoNauts are particularly interested in this because the [[Schema]] we have from any one [[paradigm]] are too weak standing
alone to make PsychoNautics possible. It is only by combining many
different points of view, and integrating many different perspectives
that one can become a successful PsychoNaut.
==[[Pack Psychology]]==
Is important to PsychoNautics because [[Groupthink]] has a knee-jerk
reaction against [[Eclectic]] thinking, And PsychoNauts are thus forced in many situations to defend themselves from attack.


==[[Cogency]]==
Is important not only for defending what we do as PsychoNauts, but for creating a lucid handling of ones own personal paradigms. Think
of it this way; You get what you put into the software you probably didn't realize you wrote for your brain.


==[[Ethics]]==

PsychoNautics is very concerned with a variety of Ethical issues,
because the way that the Psyche ends up working, It is difficult or impossible to obtain waking Trance States until the issues of the Shadow are resolved. In this sense, PsychoNauts build the ultimate

Ethical system for themselves, and it might even be said that the defining characteristic of a Psychonaut is instead that they are
solving the [[Shadow]] of the [[Collective unconscious]] internally.

==[[Lucid Visualization]]==

At high levels of Alpha State Performance, The mind is capable of generating better movies than hollywood ever will, (At a fraction of the cost.) [[Simulation]] modeling and assorted Engineering feats

become possible as a person learns to use the "Dreaming" Facility while awake, and with the Neo-Cortex in control, instead of the Reptilian Brain or Limbic System.
== [[Alpha Inductive Meta-process]]==

[[Hypnosis]]

[[Self Hypnosis]]

[[Delta Inductive Meta-process]]

*1. Stilling the Internal Dialogue

*2. Grounding and Centering

*3. Resolving the Mammalian Shadow

*4. Resolving the Reptilian Shadow


==[[Theta Inductive Meta-process]]==


*1. Theta States are sustained by Musical Internal Dialogue
*2. Theta States are normally encountered in sleep at them moment
of transmission of dream content from the Alpha mind to the Neo-Cortex.
*3. Theta level mind is the "Shamanic" Or "Psychonautic" Goal,
Because in essence, the Science that supports Shamanism understands
that there is no "Magic", There are simply other resources of the Human animal that are not normally accessed by the Neo-Cortex.

*4. Including (most usefully) perception of magnetic fields within a Five foot radius.

==[[The Sleep/Waking Control Vector]]==

* Any one of the Four Main States of Consciousness can be experienced
as a Sleeping or waking State. Normally we don't experience anything
other than Waking Beta Statese and Sleeping other States, but this is

Due to three primary factors.
*1. Hemispheric filtering to prevent cognitive meltdown
*2. Social Conditioning
*3. Fallacious Belief Systems
==[[Psychology of PsychoNautics]]==

What would make a person decide to explore their own mind?
What is the interest? What would drive a person to go to such lengths?
== [[Shadow Psychology]]==

PsychoNautics is concerned with Shadow Psychology because it is
difficult if not impossible to obtain waking Trance States if the
standard conflicts between areas of the mind have not been resolved.

==[[Shadows mirror]]==
Sometimes called a [[Scrying]] [[Mirror]]. Written and read reports
of assorted Shamanic experiences were slightly misinterpreted. In order to induce an Alpha State as an accomplished Psychonaut, one looks backward with the force of attention at the Filter Cloaking mechanism itself.


==[[Karma]]==

From the Shamanic Perspective, One of several forces of Nature,
which tends to work to apparently organize what would otherwisehave been Chaos


==[[Neuromuscular Electricity]]==
[[Neuro]] [[Muscular]] [[Electricity]]
*1. The Body generates its own Electricity for a variety of reasons
and purposes and via an assortment of chemical processes.
*2. Electricity is used as one part of the [[Electrochemical]] Communication system of nerves and Neurons.
*3. The Body also uses electricity as the driving force behind muscular flexing [[Muscles]]

==[[Electrolysis Photography]]==

A form of imaging, not technically a real photograph, in which a
target is placed on a magnetically active plate, and Magnetic field
activity is transformed into an image. This is important to PsychoNauts because it proves the PsychoNauts Hypothesis that there
is a "Subtle Energy".

==[[Bio-magnetics]]==
The Field of Science which studies the magnetic Fields that are
created by Organic Creatures.


==[[The Sensory Apparatus of the Reptilian Brain...]]==



The minds force of attention is split into two primary directions

by the Brain;

*1. Outward, into the physical senses of sight, sound, taste, and touch,

*2. Inward, into the sense perceptions of the much more complicated

Neural net, as it senses and operates by sensing itself.



==[[Glossolia]] [[Glossololia]]==

A form of Theta Trance Induction, used by [[Y'shua Ben Yeoseph]] (AKA
[[Jesus Christ]]) Involving the use of musical tones and rapidly evolving harmonics and melodies, and in most cases, nonsensical phonetics, to overpower the verbal linguistic mind, and communicate with and thus awaken the Musical Lobe and thus Theta Access.


==[[Subtle Anatomy]]==

[[Ayurveda]] [[Chinese Medicine]] [[Chakras]] [[Meridians]]

[[Strange Flows]] [[Aura]]


==[[The Psyches Labyrinth]]==
From the perspective of the PsychoNaut, Civilization is trapped
in the [[Tarot]] Card of the [[Tower]] and lost inside of holding
on to its paradigms as if they were substantial.

[[Psyche]] [[Labyrinth]]

==[[Metaphysics]]==
PsychoNauts are interested in Meta-Physics because it is another

[[Paradigm]] that adds [[Schema]] relative to Obtaining [[Altered States of Consciousness
==[[Quantum Mechanics]]==
PsychoNauts are interested in Quantum Mechanics because it is another
[Paradigm]] that adds [[Schema]] relative to Obtaining [[Altered States of Consciousness

==[[Ritual; Its useful functions]]==

*1. Grounding and Centering

*2. Cleansing and Purifying

*3. Setting Focus, Will, and Intention

*4. Exclusion of Negative thought forms

*5. The creation or Representational MicroCosm/MacroCosm Reflectivity

*6. The Creation of External Stage for Psychic Actions

*7. Syntax and codification for Induction Meta-process

*8. Communicating appropriate behavior to others.

(Generating social feedback loops)


==[[Pack Psychology]]==


In wolves, there are three main observed pack roles. They are;

*1. Alpha; The Leader, The Attacker, The direct pursuer.

*2. The Follower, The Henchmen, the Side pursuer,

*3. The outcast, the Hidden Wolf, Cuts off

This behavior manifests in Humans in a more evolved way,
and is the primary issue of the Reptilian Shadow.


==[[Herd Psychology]]==

The practice of keeping people from having PsychoNautics knowledge

so that they can be easily manipulated, Controlled, and Persuaded

or Coerced.


==[[Geek Psychology]]==

In humans, The closest Equivalent to the Omega in a Pack structure.
[[Geek]]Also, the only sane role to play, if you are going to get anything done intellectually.



==[[Psychonaut? Enter the Matrix]]

[[Enter the Matrix]]

PsychoNautics is a very Point of View charged field because it combines all of the most sensitive aspects of both Religion and Politics, and (in some people’s opinions) has better answers to life’s assorted questions than either or both. PsychoNautics is considered by some to be a [[Cult]] in competition with [[Religion]]. While this is true in some senses, the reverse is true in that any member of any Paradigm group can be A PsychoNaut; the term is actually inherently non-denominational. PsychoNautics is also considered by some to be [[Left]] [[Leftist]] [[Liberal]] And while this may be true of Some PsychoNauts, it is not True Of PsychoNauts or PsychoNautics, Because PsychoNautics is actually outside of the

Left-Right [[False Dilemma]] / [[False Duality]].


PsychoNautics actually delivers what most Paradigms only promise;
Real self help, evolutionary process, and personal Therapy.

For this reason, PsychoNautics is a field which many in the establishment would like to Silence.

==[[Sociology]]==

Sociology is the study of Human Behavior on the larger Social Scale.
PsychoNauts are interested in Sociology mostly because in order to make sense of the Psyche, one has to first make sense of ones biases,

and assorted social and cultural influences.


==[[Normative Psychology]] , [[Socialization]] , [[Education]]==

==[[Metaphysics]] , [[Psuedo-Science]] , [[Alternative Sciences]]==

==[[Ecological Ergonomics]]

[[Entheogenic Chemistry]]

== [[Entheogenic Metaphysics]]==

The Shamanic View of Reality




==[[Entheogenic Protocols]]==

The Rituals and practices used by real World Shamans, or, those
Rituals and Practices designed as Near Equivalents.

Opponents of the use of these substances tend to ignore their religious and spiritual use, and consider such claims as unsubstantiated fabrication, or mere justification of an inebriated and potentially dangerous state, and/or substance abuse.

==PsychoNautica==

The frequency of use and type of use is highly individual. Some PsychoNauts are also [[neoshaman]]s. Eventually, the individual often gains a sense or feeling of control over the entheogen they are taking.

Because their motive is primarily for personal growth by means of wider scope of mental perception, rather than social and leisure use, psychonauts usually resist over-use and respect the substances they take. Many psychoactive substances used as entheogens are not physically addictive (but may be psychologically addictive if over-used), and unlike [[crack]] or other [[Drug of abuse|drug]]s, there is not normally any spiral of dependency and/or harm involved. Personal reports on websites suggest psychonauts might typically use such substances between once every few weeks, to once or twice a year



==Substances used as entheogens==
[[dimethyltryptamine|DMT]], [[LSD]], [[Marijuana]], [[Magic Mushrooms]], [[Mescaline]], [[Peyote]], [[Salvia Divinorum]], [[Ayahuasca]], and others. The substances used as entheogens are often classified as [[psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants


==Notable psychonauts==

*[[Alan Watts]]
*[[Albert Hofmann]]
*[[Aldous Huxley]]
*[[Carlos Castaneda]]
*[[Jack Kerouac]]
*[[John Lilly]]
*[[Ken Kesey]]
*[[Peter Carroll]]
*[[Ram Dass]]
*[[Timothy Leary]]
*[[Terence McKenna]]

*[[William White (psychonaut)]]

*[[Zoe7]]

*[[William James]]

==See also==

*[[Entheogen]]

*[[Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants]]
=External links==

*[www.erowid.org The Vaults of Erowid]

*[www.psychonaut.com The Psychonaut Community] Forum, news and experiences for psychonauts

*[www.lycaeum.org The Lycaeum]

*[www.dextroverse.org The Dextroverse]

*[psychonaut.lycaeum.org/ Diary of a Psychonaut at The Lycaeum]
*[www.psychonautical.org The Psychonautical Society] "Dedicated to bringing together people interested in empirical psychology and chemically aided self-exploration." - forum and links for psychonauts
*[www.druglibrary.org/schaffer...larof.htm Some guidance for psychonauts

*[www.evvieco.com/psy Psychonauts] Entertainment for Psychonauts<o:p></o:p>

*[www.livejournal.com/communit...ychonaut/ The LiveJournal Psychonauts Community]