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Y_5_20 Verified Altered States

Y_5_20 — MDMA Pharmacology: Entactogen Mechanisms, Therapeutic Potential, and Risks

MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), commonly known as ecstasy or molly, is a synthetic entactogen (from Latin tactus, "touching within") that produces profound feelings of emotional closeness, empathy, trust, and w

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Y_5_01 Verified Altered States

Y_5_01 — Remote Viewing & Psychic Programs

The U.S. government spent $20M+ over 23 years (1972–1995) investigating psychic phenomena under classified programs known collectively as "Stargate." Research was published in Nature (1974) and IEEE (1976). The program p

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Y_5_17 Speculative Altered States

Y_5_17 — Astral Projection Laboratory Research

Astral projection — the subjective experience of consciousness separating from the physical body and traveling independently — has been reported across virtually all human cultures throughout history, from ancient Egypti

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Y_5_04 Credible Altered States

Y_5_04 — Anomalous Human Abilities — Yogic Siddhis, Firewalking, and Extreme Performance

Human cultures have long documented individuals who demonstrate extraordinary physical and mental abilities that challenge conventional understanding of human limits. This document surveys the full spectrum, from well-do

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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_02 Verified Altered States

Y_2_02 — Terminal Lucidity

This document examines Terminal Lucidity, a topic within the Consciousness research area. Key areas of investigation include What Is Terminal Lucidity?, Why This Is Anomalous, The Significance for Consciousness Studies.

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Y_2_11 Verified Altered States

Y_2_11 — Déjà Vu and Anomalous Memory Experiences

Déjà vu — from the French "already seen" — is the subjective, compelling sensation that a present experience has been previously encountered, despite the experiencer's knowledge that the situation is objectively novel. F

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Y_2_17 Verified Altered States

Y_2_17 — Barrier Gating and Altered States of Consciousness

Altered states of consciousness — produced by psychedelics, anesthetics, hypnagogic and hypnopompic transitions, near-death events, deep meditation, breathwork, and sensory deprivation — share a common functional signatu

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Y_2_10 Credible Altered States

Y_2_10 — Drowning and Near-Drowning: Aquatic Altered Consciousness

Drowning — defined by the WHO (2002, revised 2005) as "the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid" — is one of the leading causes of accidental death worldwide (~236,000 deaths

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Y_3_13 Credible Altered States

Y_3_13 — Visionary Art: Depicting Altered States from Hildegard to Grey

Visionary art — artistic creation inspired by, depicting, or emerging from altered states of consciousness — spans the entire history of human image-making, from Paleolithic cave paintings (whose geometric patterns David

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Y_3_01 Verified Altered States

Y_3_01 — Kundalini and Serpent Energy Traditions

Kundalini ("coiled one" in Sanskrit) describes a dormant serpent-like energy said to reside at the base of the spine, which, when "awakened" through meditation, breathwork, or spontaneous experience, rises through a cent

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Y_3_12 Credible Altered States

Y_3_12 — Whirling Dervishes: Sufi Sema Ceremony and Rotational Consciousness

The whirling dervishes — practitioners of the sema (or sama) ceremony of the Mevlevi order — are among the most recognizable embodiments of Sufi mysticism: figures in tall camel-hair hats (sikke) and flowing white skirts

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Y_3_02 Verified Altered States

Y_3_02 — Meditation, Neuroplasticity, and Contemplative Neuroscience

Meditation — the systematic training of attention and awareness — has been practiced for at least 3,000-5,000 years (earliest evidence: Indus Valley seal of a seated figure in meditation posture, ~2600 BCE; earliest text

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Y_3_16 Verified Altered States

Y_3_16 — Vipassana: Insight Meditation Tradition

Vipassana (Pali: vipassanā, "clear seeing" or "insight") is one of the two primary modes of Buddhist meditation alongside samatha (calming/concentration), directed at cultivating direct experiential understanding of the

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Y_3_04 Verified Altered States

Y_3_04 — Mystical Experience — Neuroscience of the Numinous

Mystical experiences — characterized by unity consciousness, noetic quality, ineffability, transcendence of time and space, and deep positive affect — have been reported across every known culture and religious tradition

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Y_3_09 Credible Altered States

Y_3_09 — Prayer, Contemplation, and the Neuroscience of Religious Experience

The neuroscientific study of prayer and religious experience — sometimes termed neurotheology (d'Aquili & Newberg, 1999) — has moved from philosophical speculation to empirical investigation using neuroimaging, EEG, and

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Y_3_06 Credible Altered States

Y_3_06 — Awe, Wonder, and Transcendent Emotions

Awe — the emotional response to perceived vastness that requires accommodation (cognitive restructuring of existing mental schemas) — has emerged as a frontier topic in affective neuroscience, positive psychology, and ph

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Y_3_07 Credible Altered States

Y_3_07 — Music, Consciousness, and Altered States

Music is one of the most powerful modulators of conscious experience available without pharmacological intervention. Neuroimaging reveals that music engages an extraordinarily distributed network: auditory cortex (superi

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Y_1_03 Credible Altered States

Y_1_03 — Classical Antiquity Entheogens Synthesis

This document examines Classical Antiquity Entheogens Synthesis, a topic within the Consciousness research area. Key areas of investigation include Were Ancient Mediterranean Religions Entheogenic?, Why This Matters, The

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Y_1_02 Verified Altered States

Y_1_02 — Ergot, Sacred Pharmacology, and History

This document examines Ergot, Sacred Pharmacology, and History, a topic within the Consciousness research area. Key areas of investigation include Claviceps purpurea — Biology and Chemistry, Ergot Alkaloids — The Chemist

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