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Control attention, control consciousness What this means, as Leary explains, is that the subjective effects of psychedelics and marijuana are user-constructed, in that the initial conditions of the experience, both environmental and psychological, feedback into the subjective experience of the trip itself. Leary condensed this feedback effect in the notion of “set and setting,” which has remained a widely accepted heuristic by psychedelic explorers for fifty years. “There is no drug effect by itself,” says Techgnosis author, media theorist and psychonaut Erik Davis—psychedelics simply reflect and amplify beliefs and patterns of meaning already woven into the user’s intentional ‘set’ and environmental ‘setting’...endlessly reverberating feedback loops of mind, cultural context, and compound. Psychedelic researcher and professor Richard Doyle expands on this idea: It gets curiouser and curiouser... for it is also the case that the language we use to describe an experience becomes part of the experience. So our description feeds back onto the experience itself. In other words, even the words we use to map and make sense of our experience, actually change our experience, in an infinite recursive feedback loop. ATTENTION Doyle calls psychedelics information technologies that work through the capture and management of attention. By managing attention, you manage the overall field of awareness, and thus you can influence your perception of reality. thedailybeast/articles/2015/01/25/hacking-the-tripping-mind-a-fantastic-voyage-through-inner-space.html
Posted on: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:21:41 +0000

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