ANT 4461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lucid Dream, Ken Russell, Astral Projection
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Were the doors of perception but cleansed, we would see the world as it is . Deep sleep, unconscious: originally known as mesmerism after 18th century impresario anton mesmer, mesmer claimed her could heal people through manipulating their animal magnetism via passes over this fluid emanating from their bodies. The right hemisphere seems more connected to altered states: left hemisphere, controls right side of body, abstract, linear, analytic, rational, logical, sequential time experience, three r"s sensory-motor skills, cognitive judgement, discrimination, right hemisphere. Intuitive, artistic: controls left side of body, concrete, holistic, analogical, spatial perception, music, creative ability, pattern recognition, empathy, emotional sense, the doors of perception, aldous huxley experiments with mescaline and concludes the brain function as a. Most entheogens: three types of hallucinogens, tropanes (cocaine) scopolamine, indole alkaloids, tryptamines, dmt, bufotenine, psilocybin, serotonin, beta-carbolines, harmaline, yohimbine, ergolines, lsd-25, ergine/ lsa, phenethylamines, mescaline 2cb (mdma, most known hallucinogen except salvinorin is an alkaloid.
