Tag Archives: psychonaut
Pictures of Lilly
The name John Lilly might conjure many images: scientist; physician; the inspiration behind William Hurt’s character in the psychedelic cinema classic Altered States; don’t forget dolphin whisperer. John Lilly contained multitudes and I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon this look back at the man and his work from the Stuff To Blow Your Mind [...]
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Tagged altered states, cinema, dolphin, how stuff works, John Lilly, physician, podcast, psychedelic, psychonaut, scientist, stuff to blow your mind
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Memories of McKenna
Here’s how Wikipedia defines psychonaut: Psychonautics (from the Greek ψυχή psychē ["soul", "spirit" or "mind"] and ναύτης naútēs ["sailor" or "navigator"] – “a sailor of the soul”[1]) refers both to a methodology for describing and explaining the subjective effects of altered states of consciousness, including those induced by meditation or mind-altering substances, and to a [...]
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Tagged Food of the Gods, November 16, psychonaut, Reset.me, Terence Mckenna
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