Psychedelic-information-theory-Shamanism-in-the-age-of-Reason

quick change in phase between vocal waves and hallucinogenicinterrupt frequency to decrease and flatten interrupt amplitude.Techniques of using resonance to drive and shape wave amplitudehave been exploited by modern DJs and music producers to engineerthe hard-attack bass lines associated with acid house and trance music.In the psychedelic musical genre known as Goa Trance, bass lines ripthrough crowds of thousands of dancers with the resonant wave shapeand amplitude of electric saw blades. The intensely amplified resonantpulse drivers of Goa Trance music are, in fact, the current bleedingedgeritual technology of physical shamanism. Goa Trance originatedfrom India; Goa Trance DJs and producers are revered like gurus ortechno-shamen; and fans of Gao Trance travel to global music festivalsthe way other spiritual adherents make sacred pilgrimages. Goa Trancemusic is the psychedelic essence of resonant hallucinogenic tryptamineinterrupt expressing itself through modern ritual entrainmenttechnology. Using an electrically amplified sound system, a trance DJcan manipulate a tribe of thousands in the same way a traditionalshaman manipulates a tribe of dozens (Fig. 25). It is the sametechnology applied on a larger scale.Cellular Automata and Fractal ImprintingIt may be difficult to understand how a simple periodic interrupt ormodulatory frame pulse can create such dramatic perceptual results,but the periodic interrupt should be thought of as a linear resonantdriver which, over time, generates complex and salient nonlinear waveinterference patterns. This would be a description of a dynamicalinformation processing system generating complexity over time basedon a simple repetitive algorithm, such as a fractal or a cellularautomata. Fractals or cellular automata are perhaps the best visualmetaphors for the spontaneous recursive organization of psychedelicvisual hallucinations, and there is a very fractal or cellular element tothe psychedelic experience which evolves along the flickering pulsationof the hallucinogen’s interrupt. The endless unfolding of the infinitepsychedelic fractal continues until the hallucinogen is metabolized, atwhich point the hallucinogenic interrupt wears off, fades away, and