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

consciousness unwinds from the recursive spiral and stabilizes backinto linear information processing.Biology is repetitive feedback patterns; consciousness is repetitivefeedback patterns; shamanism is the interruption and re-modulation ofthose repetitive feedback patterns to produce spectacular experientialresults. In a very real way shamanism is the art of shaping the fractalintegrity of the individual from the genetic level up through personalmemory and tribal identity. The hallucinogenic interrupt allows theshaman to break the subject’s habituated daily routines and place theminto a self-referential programming loop that includes all layers ofpersonal and transpersonal identity. The interlocking facets ofbiological-self and transpersonal-self are made explicit in the flickeringspirit space, and by controlling the depth of immersion into this spacethe shaman can control how much of the subject’s existing identity isexposed, manipulated, and transformed in the process.The fractal rendering of sub- and meta- consciousness in theshamanic space allows psychedelics to have a profound long-term effecton identity-based neuroplasticity. 9 By applying a resonant multisensorydriver that acts as a cellular automata or nonlinear fractal generator forarchetypal symbols in memory and imagination, the psychedelicsession compiles and imprints memory structures that appear to bemore transpersonal, holographic, and durable than linear identityconstructs imprinted in an average lifespan. To be clear, the nonlineariterative nature of psychedelic information exploits archetypal symbolrendering to bypass linear ego and imprint a recursive, holographicview of the transcendent self within a larger idealized cosmic reality.This idealized, holographic representation of the self may be consideredmore “real” than the actual self, perhaps even experienced as theessential self, genetic self, transpersonal self, or the eternal soul. Theability to produce and manipulate a representation of the idealizedtranspersonal self makes psychedelics viable in shamanictransformation, clinical therapy, and spiritual awakening.The holographic image of idealized self does not emerge in a singlemoment or even in a single psychedelic session; the organization of apsychedelic meta-identity is a process that may take many hours of asingle psychedelic session or possibly multiple psychedelic sessions to