PSYCHEDELIC INFORMATION THEORY ~ Shamanism In The Age Of Reason ~ Kent, James L.
http://psychedelic-information-theory.com/ Review
"Psychedelic Information Theory will prove to be an important work. PIT provides a serious, and in many respects successful, recalibration of the different psychedelic knowledge bases."
--Rob Dickens, PsyPressUK.com Review, December 2010
PIT suggests many rich opportunities for research that are bound to reveal pragmatic and novel applications. Not since The Invisible Landscape have I found a book so original and propitious.
--Jedi Mind Traveler, Evolver.net interview, January 2011
PIT is the everyman's guide to inner consciousness, unraveling the scientific foundations of altered states. Kent's reductionist approach also leaves room for mysteries to grow.
--Rak Razam, author of Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey, November 2010
Kent's clear trail through volumes of research gave me a solid understanding of hallucinatory states. Kent deserves a place next to Grof on the psychonaut's bookshelf.
--Sheldon Norberg, author of Healing Houses, Erowid.org Review, October 2010
PIT is an extraordinary book. I love it and believe it is a special book that over the years will increasingly emerge as important to our field.
--Neal Marshall Goldsmith, author of Psychedelic Healing, January 2011
--Rob Dickens, PsyPressUK.com Review, December 2010
PIT suggests many rich opportunities for research that are bound to reveal pragmatic and novel applications. Not since The Invisible Landscape have I found a book so original and propitious.
--Jedi Mind Traveler, Evolver.net interview, January 2011
PIT is the everyman's guide to inner consciousness, unraveling the scientific foundations of altered states. Kent's reductionist approach also leaves room for mysteries to grow.
--Rak Razam, author of Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey, November 2010
Kent's clear trail through volumes of research gave me a solid understanding of hallucinatory states. Kent deserves a place next to Grof on the psychonaut's bookshelf.
--Sheldon Norberg, author of Healing Houses, Erowid.org Review, October 2010
PIT is an extraordinary book. I love it and believe it is a special book that over the years will increasingly emerge as important to our field.
--Neal Marshall Goldsmith, author of Psychedelic Healing, January 2011
Product Description
Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason is a formal analysis of the physical mechanisms underlying hallucination, shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness. Written by James L. Kent, this text was researched for over 20 years and includes over 200 references and 31 images related to the latest science in the diverse fields of pharmacology, shamanism, and perception. As a succinct yet comprehensive formal analysis of the dynamics of hallucination and shamanic ritual, Psychedelic Information Theory is destined to become the modern textbook on psychedelic phenomena.
Chapters include information on the physiology of perception, types of visual hallucination, psychedelic pharmacology, psychedelic neuroplasticity, chaos theory, shamanic therapy, shamanic sorcery, and group mind phenomena related to psychedelic consciousness.
Chapters include information on the physiology of perception, types of visual hallucination, psychedelic pharmacology, psychedelic neuroplasticity, chaos theory, shamanic therapy, shamanic sorcery, and group mind phenomena related to psychedelic consciousness.
Jonathan Ott and The Entheogenic Reformation
Ott is an ethnobotanist, writer, translator, publisher, natural products chemist and botanical researcher in the area of entheogens and their cultural and historical uses, and helped coin the term "entheogen"[1].
Ott has written eight books, co-wrote five, and contributed to four others, and published many articles in the field of entheogens. He has collaborated with other researchers like Christian Rätsch,Jochen Gartz, and the late ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson. He translated Albert Hoffman's 1979 book LSD: My Problem Child (LSD: Mein Sorgekind), and On Aztec Botanical Names by Blas Pablo Reko, into English. His articles have appeared in many publications, including The Entheogen Review, The Entheogen Law Reporter, the Journal of Cognitive Liberties, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (AKA the of Psychedelic Drugs), the MAPS Bulletin, Head, High Times, Curare, Eleusis, Integration, Lloydia, The Sacred Mushroom Seeker, and several Harvard Botanical Museum pamphlets. He is a co-editor of Eleusis: Journal of Psychoactive Plants & , along with Giorgio Samorini[2]
Ott has written eight books, co-wrote five, and contributed to four others, and published many articles in the field of entheogens. He has collaborated with other researchers like Christian Rätsch,Jochen Gartz, and the late ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson. He translated Albert Hoffman's 1979 book LSD: My Problem Child (LSD: Mein Sorgekind), and On Aztec Botanical Names by Blas Pablo Reko, into English. His articles have appeared in many publications, including The Entheogen Review, The Entheogen Law Reporter, the Journal of Cognitive Liberties, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (AKA the of Psychedelic Drugs), the MAPS Bulletin, Head, High Times, Curare, Eleusis, Integration, Lloydia, The Sacred Mushroom Seeker, and several Harvard Botanical Museum pamphlets. He is a co-editor of Eleusis: Journal of Psychoactive Plants & , along with Giorgio Samorini[2]
Raetsch's Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants
We can see that plants do more than simply maintain our body. They also promote and nourish our souls and make possible the enlightenment of our mind. Their existence is offering, sacrifice, and selfless love. The earth on which they grow is itself a sacrificial altar- and we who receive their blessings are the sacrificial priests. Through plants, the outer light of the sun and the stars becomes the inner light which reflects back from the foundations of our soul. This is the reason why plants have always and everywhere been considered sacred, divine. (Storl 1997, 20)
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