Subfolder: Y1_Psychedelics_Entheogens | Parent Section: Y — Altered States & Psychedelics
Document Count: 15 | Last Updated: March 14, 2026
Category Tags: consciousness, psychedelics, altered-states, pharmacology, ethnobotany, religion, shamanism, medicine-healing

OVERVIEW

This subfolder contains 15 documents covering Psychedelics Entheogens within the Altered States & Psychedelics section. Topics include Altered States, Psychedelics & Ancient Knowledge, Ergot, Sacred Pharmacology, and History, Classical Antiquity Entheogens Synthesis, Psychedelic Renaissance — Clinical Research and Consciousness, Soma and Haoma — The Sacred Plant of Vedic and Avestan Ritual and 10 more topics. Key themes span psilocybin, dmt, ayahuasca, entheogen, soma, amanita muscaria.

KEY POINTS

• Y_1_01 — Psychoactive substances played a significant — possibly central — role in ancient knowledge traditions.
• Y_1_02 — This document examines Ergot, Sacred Pharmacology, and History, a topic within the Consciousness research area.
• Y_1_03 — This document examines Classical Antiquity Entheogens Synthesis, a topic within the Consciousness research area.
• Y_1_04 — The psychedelic renaissance — a resurgence of rigorous scientific research on psychedelic substances after decades of prohibition — has produced some of the most significant findings in 21st-century…
• Y_1_05 — Soma (Sanskrit: sóma) is the most celebrated sacred substance in the Vedic corpus — a pressed plant juice ritually offered to the gods and consumed by priests, praised in all 114 hymns of **Rig…
• Y_1_06 — Psychedelic research has undergone a dramatic revival since ~2006, with major studies at Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, NYU, and MAPS demonstrating the therapeutic potential of…
• Y_1_07 — Ego dissolution — the temporary loss of the subjective sense of self, personal boundaries, and the distinction between self and world — is among the most profound and therapeutically significant…
• Y_1_08 — Cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) is one of humanity's oldest cultivated plants, with a relationship spanning at least 12,000 years based on archaeological evidence.
• Y_1_09 — Several animal toxins and plant poisons produce dramatic altered states of consciousness, and their use in ritual, medicine, and folklore constitutes a significant chapter in the relationship…
• Y_1_10 — Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive indole alkaloid derived from the root bark of the West African shrub Tabernanthe iboga, which has been used for centuries in the Bwiti…
• Y_1_11 — Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic — first synthesized by Calvin Stevens in 1962 and introduced into clinical use by Edward Domino and Guenter Corssen (1966) — that has undergone a…
• Y_1_12 — Salvia divinorum ("diviner's sage") is a psychoactive plant of the mint family (Lamiaceae) native to the cloud forests of the Sierra Mazateca in Oaxaca, Mexico, where it has been used for…
• Y_1_13 — Nitrous oxide (N₂O — "laughing gas") and xenon (Xe — a noble gas) are two anesthetic gases that have served as remarkable probes of consciousness — revealing how the manipulation of a…
• Y_1_14 — 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…
• Y_1_15 — Micro-dosing — the practice of regularly consuming sub-perceptual doses (typically 1/10th to 1/20th of a standard recreational dose) of psychedelic substances, most commonly LSD (~10–20…

KEY THEMES & KEYWORDS

psilocybin, dmt, ayahuasca, entheogen, soma, amanita muscaria, lsd, kykeon, ergot, haoma, psychedelic, wasson, altered states, iboga, maps

DOCUMENT INDEX

WHAT TO EXPECT

Documents in this subfolder follow the project's 4-tier evidence system:

• Tier 1 (Verified): Peer-reviewed, archaeological record, primary texts
• Tier 2 (Credible): Academic, debated but supported by evidence
• Tier 3 (Speculative): Possible but unverified
• Tier 4 (Dubious): No credible source or contradicted by evidence

Tier distribution in this subfolder: 1: 1 docs, 1–2: 2 docs, 2: 5 docs

Each document includes a Quick Summary, tiered claims with specific evidence,

counter-arguments, bibliography, and cross-references to related documents across the corpus.

Subfolder summary auto-generated from corpus analysis. Last Updated: March 14, 2026