Psychonauticon

During a psychedelic intoxication we can perceive our normal, articulated consciousness is as the result of sub- and supraliminal processes, events, intensities and speeds that run through it and shape it. In this book I attempt to weave together individual threads, lines, levels and planes that run through and shape psychedelic experience.

To think from psychedelic experience means to think the process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. Such thinking departs from an analysis of experience, but it doesn't bind it to a complete and unambiguous subject, but rather to the situation of intoxication itself in whose course the subject becomes multiple and appears to be an intertwining or a temporal congruence of many events that occur on more interconnected levels - biological, personal, social, cultural, or ecological.

Introduction

Autoethnographic approach

Psychonautic approach

Anthropological approach

Ecosemiotic approach

Philosophical approach


Autoethnographic prelude

The plot

Avant-garde, the Velvet revolution and underground

Philosophical apprentice

Socio-cultural context and psychedelic praxis

The impact of everyday life

Community of night and the way of poisons

Entertainment and free time

Rave culture

Meeting the Dragon


Methodology

The concept of transdisciplinarity

Methodological precedence of intertwining

To think from and to think according to psychedelic experience

The concept of analogy

Domain, field, umwelt, niche

Domain

Field

Niche and Umwelt

Methodological summary


Psychedelic rhizome

The concept of rhizome

Chemical substances

Alkaloids

Neurotransmitters

Entropics, disorganizers, deregulators

Psychedelics

Hallucinogens

Beyond naming: phantastica, psychotomimetics and Shulgin's scale


Modelling the domain of psychedelic experiences

Application: Set and setting principles

Set

Setting

Onset of psychedelic effect

Deterritorialization of perceptual field

Emergence of hallucinatory field from deterritorialized perception

Synaesthesia and dis-aesthesia

Psychedelic experience of time and space

The supra-perceptual level of the hallucinatory field

Alloy

Fading of effects


Summary and conclusion

References