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Ego Death and Psychedelics

By John Harrison

Most of us involved in consciousness research and exploration have had both personal and/or professional episodes that resemble or emulate a temporary ego death (loss of the separate self) or, in the affirmative, have experienced a deep and profound merging with the transcendent other.

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The Doors of Perception

"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary.

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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Am I Dreaming?: The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain

When a computer goes wrong, we are told to turn it off and on again. In Am I Dreaming?, science journalist James Kingsland reveals how the human brain is remarkably similar.

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James Kingsland
2019
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The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate “when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.

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Alan Watts
2013
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5 Levels of Perception of the Psychedelic Experience

This video has broken down the psychedelic experience into 5 main levels, varying in intensity. From a tiny microdose to a full-blown ego death, this video covers it all.

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2020
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Ayahuasca DMT Trip Simulation (Pov) | What Ayahuasca “Looks” Like

Ayahuasca is a DMT/MAOI Amazonian brew that is used by shamans to connect with higher planes of existence, and to heal people.

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2020
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When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance

Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation, that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world. This formerly esoteric, little-known brew is now a growth industry.

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Daniel Pinchbeck, Sophia Rokhlin
2019
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Ralph Metzner: My First Ayahuasca Experience

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Ralph Metzner
2011
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Alex Grey: My 1st DMT Experience Was Very Memorable

Alex Grey describes his very memorable first experience with the psychedelic DMT, as well as several subsequent experiences, and how they influenced his art. From the documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule.

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2011
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What It's Like to Make Art on DMT

In this scene from HAMILTON'S PHARMACOPEIA, Hamilton meets with LSD World Peace, an artist who depicts DMT space in his work.

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2017
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Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division.

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Daniel Pinchbeck
2003
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