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

complex results through time; recovery in the case of placebo orsickness and death in the case of a curse.According to the fundamentals of Psychedelic Information Theory,the influence of shamanic sorcery can be presumed to be nonlinear,which means small periodic perturbations of system variables within alarger information system can produce disproportionately complex andchaotic results in any other part of the system. In the nonlinearpsychedelic space the shaman is a chaos magician, or the butterfly thatflaps his wings in China and creates a hurricane across the ocean. Thenonlinear aspect of psychedelic sorcery makes it both a very subtle artform and something that escapes reductive scientific observation, butalso makes it very prone to failure and lack of proper control. Theweather is famously nonlinear, and one of the jobs of the shaman isreading and controlling the weather; this not a coincidence. PITassumes that the study of nonlinear systems and complexity has alwaysbeen a fundamental part of shamanism and sorcery.Synchronicity Magic and Probability CollapseSubjects in a destabilized nonlinear state often report enhancedsensations of non-random coincidence, or synchronicity, that appear todefy all rationality. Accounts of hidden forces acting in concert to sendmessages through non-random coincidence are common in psychosis,paranoia, schizophrenia, mania, bipolar disorder, and psychedelicintoxication. On psychedelics this state is dose dependent and increasesin complexity with larger doses until it appears the entire fabric ofreality, down the subatomic level, is speaking directly to the subjectwith a singular narrative message. While in the synchronicity holenothing in the universe is random and all coincidence is laden withhidden subtext that makes sense only to the subject. From a clinicalstandpoint the synchronicity hole represents a state of delusionalmegalomania, yet this is exactly the kind of logic we should expect froma nonlinear analysis of reality. Linear analysis may perceive the leaveson a tree as a random distribution; a nonlinear analysis will see asingular non-random function underlying the genesis of complex form.