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Search 3,721 documents across 34 fields — every claim tier-rated by evidence

3,721 Documents 34 Sections 43,625 Citations 34,852 Keywords Indexed 4 Evidence Tiers

3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.

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K_3_17 Verified Consciousness

K_3_17 — Psychedelic Consciousness — DMT, Psilocybin Neural Effects

The psychedelic renaissance in neuroscience — a period of renewed scientific investigation beginning circa 2006 after decades of regulatory restriction — has produced an unprecedented body of neuroimaging, pharmacologica

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Y_1_14 Credible Altered States

Y_1_14 — Toad Venom: Bufo alvarius, 5-MeO-DMT, and Desert Sacrament

Toad venom — specifically the venom of the Sonoran Desert toad (Incilius alvarius, formerly Bufo alvarius) — contains 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT), one of the most potent psychoactive tryptamines known, p

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X_2_03 Verified Medicine & Healing

X_2_03 — Psychedelic Medicine: Clinical Evidence and Renaissance

The psychedelic renaissance — the resurgence of clinical research into psychedelic compounds after decades of prohibition — represents one of the most significant paradigm shifts in modern psychiatry. Psilocybin for trea

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INTERDOC_68 — Entity Categories as Attractors in Consciousness State-Space

A recurring mystery across the corpus: why do DMT users, shamanic practitioners, near-death experiencers, medieval monks, ancient temple visitors, and modern abduction reporters describe the same limited set of entity ty

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W_4_07 Verified World Civilizations

W_4_07 — Amazonian Traditions, Plant Teachers, and the Ayahuasca Complex

The Amazon Basin — the world's largest tropical rainforest — is home to approximately 400 indigenous groups with an extraordinary tradition of plant-based knowledge unmatched anywhere on Earth. At the center of this trad

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C_4_15 Credible Global Traditions

C_4_15 — Taíno and Caribbean Indigenous Mythology

The Taíno, an Arawakan-speaking people who inhabited the Greater Antilles (Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico) and the Bahamas at the time of European contact in 1492, maintained a complex cosmological system centere

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Z_4_06 Verified Molecular Biology

Z_4_06 — Psychedelic Neurochemistry: 5-HT2A, Tryptamines, and Molecular Mechanisms

Psychedelic neurochemistry — the molecular-level study of how psychedelic compounds alter brain function to produce their characteristic effects (visual hallucinations, synesthesia, ego dissolution, mystical-type experie

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K_4_01 Verified Consciousness

K_4_01 — Shamanism, Entheogens & Serpent Visions

Shamanism as a cross-cultural altered-state practice is Tier 1 anthropology (Eliade 1964, Winkelman 2010). Clinical psilocybin and DMT research is Tier 1 (Griffiths 2006/2019, Strassman 2001, Davis 2021). The consistent

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INTERDOC_20 — Psychedelic Neuroscience and Ancient Ritual Practice

[KEY FINDING] The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, the Imperial College Centre for Psychedelic Research (est. 2019, directed by Robin Carhart-Harris), and the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Assoc

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INTERDOC_37 — Consciousness, Entity Contact, and the Contact Nexus

[KEY FINDING] Entity encounters are reported through at least seven independent consciousness-alteration pathways: (1) Psychedelics — DMT, psilocybin, ayahuasca, iboga, 5-MeO-DMT, mescaline; (2) Meditation — deep jhāna s

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INTERDOC_35 — Entity Taxonomy: Cross-Cultural Synthesis

[KEY FINDING] When entity reports from ALL sources are catalogued — ancient religious texts, shamanic traditions, modern UFO contact, sleep paralysis, psychedelic experiences, near-death experiences, and meditative state

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B_5_13 Speculative Beings & Entities

B_5_13 — Insectoid Beings in Mythology and Modern Encounter Reports

Insectoid beings — entities with arthropod morphology including mantis-like, ant-like, and beetle-like forms — appear across two distinct domains: ancient mythology and modern encounter reports. In mythology, insects ser

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Y_4_06 Verified Altered States

Y_4_06 — Synesthesia and Cross-Modal Perception

Synesthesia — the involuntary, consistent experience of one sensory modality triggering perception in another (e.g., hearing colors, tasting shapes) — affects roughly 4% of the general population when broad subtype defin

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Y_4_04 Verified Altered States

Y_4_04 — Entoptic Phenomena and Phosphene Patterns

This document examines Entoptic Phenomena and Phosphene Patterns, a topic within the Consciousness research area. Key areas of investigation include Defining Entoptic Phenomena, Phosphenes: Light from Within, Heinrich Kl

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Y_4_03 Verified Altered States

Y_4_03 — Shamanic Practices / Altered States Synthesis

Shamanic practices represent humanity's oldest spiritual technology, attested across every inhabited continent from at least 30,000 BCE (Upper Paleolithic cave art) to the present day. Despite vast cultural distances — g

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Y_5_03 Verified Altered States

Y_5_03 — Pineal Gland / Third Eye Across Cultures

The pineal gland sits at the geometric center of the brain and has been called "the third eye" across cultures for millennia. Ancient pine cone motifs appear at the Vatican (Cortile della Pigna), Assyrian reliefs (winged

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Y_5_12 Speculative Altered States

Y_5_12 — Dark Retreat: Extended Light Deprivation and Endogenous Visionary States

The dark retreat (yangti nagpo or mun mtshams in Tibetan) is an advanced contemplative practice — primarily within the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and the closely related Bön tradition — in

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Y_2_05 Credible Altered States

Y_2_05 — Near-Death Experiences: Cross-Cultural Analysis

Near-death experiences (NDEs) — profound subjective experiences occurring during clinical death, cardiac arrest, or perceived proximity to death — have been reported across virtually all cultures and historical periods.

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Y_2_16 Credible Altered States

Y_2_16 — Near-Death Experience Latest Research

Near-death experiences (NDEs) — the vivid, structured experiences reported by approximately 10–20% of cardiac arrest survivors (including out-of-body perception, tunnel experiences, life reviews, encounters with deceased

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Y_2_01 Verified Altered States

Y_2_01 — NDEs, OBEs & Consciousness Studies

Modern consciousness research — NDEs in cardiac arrest patients, children's past-life memories, and DMT-induced entity encounters — produces data that intersects remarkably with ancient descriptions of death journeys, as

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