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The Psilocybin Solution
Disclaimer
Foreword
Graham Hancock
Preface
PROLOGUE
A Question of Life and Death
ONE
Sacred Ground
A Trail Begins
Echoes of a Shamanic Beat
Mushroom Lore
Intimations of a Sacred Mexican Mushroom
Getting Warmer
The Mystery Explodes into Life
TWO
An Ancient Form of Communion
The Catholic Constabulary Take Note
Illuminating Flowers
Psychedelic Temples
Secret Psychedelic Legacies
The Birth of the Religious Impulse
Mushrooms and the Maya
Some Colombian Treasures Also Ring a Bell
THREE
Psilocybin Flows in and out of the Western Mind
Bugged by the CIA
The Psychedelic Infiltration of Harvard
Dr. Leary Gets Turned On
A Divine Invasion Upsets the Status Quo
Update: Just How Good Was That Friday?
Leary Begins to Spread the Good News
Attempts to Dam the Flow of Psilocybin
Food for Thought
The Mushroom as Medicine
Support for the Mushroom Grows
Moksha-Medicine Grows on the Verge of Paradise
FOUR
Investigating the Earth’s Alchemical Skin
The Blind Eye of Science
An Inner Revolution Awaits
Psychedelic Science: Round Two
The Medical Use of Ibogaine
Dimethyltryptamine
Does the Brain Recognize DMT?
So What Does It All Mean?
FIVE
The Mushroom and the Synapse
Neuromancing with Neuroscience
Introducing the Neuronal Brain
Naturally Neat Neurons
A Fantastic Journey into the Synapse
Neuronal Patterns and Context
Chemistry and the Mind
Neuro-alchemical Magic
The Novel Orchestration of Information
Sleeping Dreams and Waking Dreams
SIX
The Stuff of Consciousness
Mind and Body
An Attempt to Exorcise the Ghost of Descartes
Symbols in Formation
See What I Mean?
Designer Symbols, Designer Visions
Stretching Credulity
The Many Guises of the Other
Can, or Should, We Banish the Other?
Big O, Little o
“Dreamformation”
The Varieties of Dream Experience
Reality Expansion
Informative Dialogues
SEVEN
A Universe of Information
Consciousness, Information, and Reality
Shifting Paradigms
Assessing the Reality Situation
Elucidating the Nature of Information
Potential Information and Active Information
Subjective and Objective Patterns of Information
The Flow of Information
DNA Information
Information and Language
Dissolving Matter into Forms of Information
A Contextual Web of Information
EIGHT
Does the Universe Compute?
The Computer Revolution
Formal Systems
Formal Systems and Language
Some Inside Information: Are We Output?
State Transitions
The Original Software
Is Reality a Bit Fishy?
The Game of Life
A Discrete Look at Time
What Gave Our Universe Its Lucky Break?
Now, Wait Just a Goddamn Chronon!
A Return to Entheogenic Wisdom
A Vision Shared
NINE
The Fantastic Hypothesis
Facing the Options
Should We Go Whole Hog, Including the Postage?
Do Psychedelic Shamans Dream of VALIS?
Sophisticated ET’s
Is the Reality Process Intelligent?
Recalling the Biospherical Mind
Contemplating Evolution
The Importance of Context
Environmental Awareness
An Exquisite Unfolding Potential
Are We Smarter Than Nature?
Have We Stolen Nature’s Glory?
Ah, but Can Nature Pass an IQ Test?
Natural Intelligence Is Everywhere
Unnatural Bias
Superfluous Icing on the Darwinian Cake?
The Ultrasmart Complexity of Organisms
TEN
A Neo-Shamanic Climax
Forecasting the Future
Near the River’s End
The Omega Point
The End of the World as We Know It
Our Role on the Earth Rock
Shifting Perspectives
EPILOGUE
Trick or Treat?
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright
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