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4D Wave Visualization with Continuous Rotations
The 4D Wave Control tool allows users to visualize 4D rotations and matrix transformations, aiding in the understanding of linear algebra concepts. Users can adjust matrices, blend transformations, and explore vector spaces through interactive controls. Tips for effective exploration include making small matrix changes and observing rotations for extended periods to enhance visual intuition.
A Deep-Dream Virtual Reality Platform for Studying Altered Perceptual Phenomenology - Scientific Reports
A novel tool called the Hallucination Machine combines deep convolutional neural networks and panoramic VR to simulate visual hallucinatory experiences, mimicking the phenomenology of psychedelics without altering neurophysiology. Experiments show it induces similar visual effects but does not produce the temporal distortions typically associated with altered states.
A predictive coding approach to psychedelic virtual-induced hallucinations and creative cognition in aging
Recent research explores the potential of psychedelics in enhancing cognitive flexibility and creativity, particularly through Virtual Reality (VR) simulations. This approach may help counteract cognitive decline in aging, as it optimizes the balance between expectations and sensory information, thereby supporting creative cognition and maintaining cognitive functions.
Altered States
Ken Russell’s 1980 film follows a researcher who pushes the limits of consciousness through self‑experiments with psychedelics and technology, depicting altered states and mind‑manifesting tech as a cultural reference rather than a cyberdelic experience.
Altered States Database
The Altered States Database (ASDB) is an open-science project by CIRCE, providing access to scientific data on pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods for inducing altered states of consciousness. It includes only peer-reviewed psychometric data and is updated annually based on systematic literature reviews. The project aims to support research on human consciousness, particularly in the context of psychedelics in therapy, by enhancing data comparability and optimizing study designs.
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self
A groundbreaking study explores how altered states of consciousness, such as those experienced during shock, meditation, or drug use, reveal insights into the nature of consciousness. The author, Marc Wittmann, discusses the close relationship between the perception of time and self, examining how extreme experiences can distort these perceptions. He also highlights research on psychedelics and their potential therapeutic uses for conditions like depression and anxiety, arguing that understanding these altered states is crucial for unraveling the mystery of consciousness.
Bringing Digital Psychedelics to Mental Health Providers
SoundSelf, a digital therapeutics company, has launched a community investment campaign on Wefunder to support innovative mental health therapy, combining ancient practices with modern technology to enhance treatments like ketamine.
Cosmic Sugar, Brain Candy, Cyberdelics
Podcast discussing themes of art, culture, technology, and psychedelics, featuring insights into cyberdelia and virtual reality. Available on RTE Lyric FM's website.
Could VR change how you trip on ketamine?
Ketamine, once viewed as a party drug, is gaining recognition for its therapeutic potential in treating pain, anxiety, and depression. Researchers are exploring how virtual reality technology could enhance the experience and effectiveness of ketamine therapy.
Cybernetics of the Self
The article introduces the concept of a cyberdelic stance, emphasizing conscious engagement with technology as feedback loops that can enhance wisdom and agency. It explores the evolution of cybernetics, merging it with psychedelia to highlight tools and practices that promote interconnection and co-creation, encouraging individuals to actively shape their experiences rather than being controlled by algorithms.
Digital hallucinations boost creativity - no drugs required
Researchers in Milan have developed a project called Cyberdelics, which combines immersive virtual reality and artificial intelligence to create digital hallucinations that mimic psychedelic experiences without the use of drugs. This technology helps users think differently and promotes relaxation.
Dreamseed VR - YouTube
Dreamseed VR is a YouTube channel created by Sarah Phinn in 2018, focusing on topics related to culture, philosophy, psychedelics, science, technology, and virtual reality. The channel can be accessed at the provided URL.
Enosis Therapeutics wants to optimise psychedelic therapy with VR
Enosis Therapeutics and Psylo are leveraging technology in Australia to advance medicinal psychedelic therapy, with Enosis focusing on virtual reality tools for integration therapy and Psylo developing non-hallucinogenic synthetic compounds. Australia has become the first country to legalize psychedelic-assisted therapies for conditions like treatment-resistant depression and PTSD.
Exploring Peak Experiences through Multi-Sensory Extended Reality
Research explores how Multi-Sensory Extended Reality (MSXR) can induce Peak Experiences and altered states of consciousness to improve mental health. The study uses a qualitative phenomenological approach to capture participants' experiences and perceived therapeutic benefits, aiming to enhance the role of immersive technologies in mental health interventions and contribute to counseling psychology and consciousness studies.
Flicker light stimulation enhances the emotional response to music: a comparison study to the effects of psychedelics
Flicker light stimulation (FLS) enhances emotional responses to music, similar to the effects of psychedelics. In a study with twenty participants, FLS significantly increased reported emotions, particularly "Joyful Activation," and intensity of FLS correlated with higher emotional arousal. These findings suggest further exploration of FLS as a method for inducing altered states of consciousness and its interaction with music-evoked emotions.
Group VR experiences can produce ego attenuation and connectedness comparable to psychedelics
Research explores the potential of virtual reality (VR) to create self-transcendent experiences (STEs) similar to those induced by psychedelics. Using a framework called 'Isness-distributed', participants in shared VR spaces experience a blurring of self-other boundaries, leading to moments of 'energetic coalescence'. Analysis of 58 participants showed that the subjective experiences in VR were statistically comparable to those reported in psychedelic studies, indicating VR's capability to facilitate intersubjective STEs that dissolve individual ego in connection with others.
How Psychedelics Are Influencing Modern Design
Psychedelics are linked to creativity, influencing modern design by fostering unconventional problem-solving and inspiring empathic design systems. Notable figures like Steve Jobs have credited psychedelic experiences with shaping their design ethos, highlighting a growing trend in 2024 where designers use psychedelics to create connections among people and with the planet.
Hyperhumanism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Age of AI
Exploration of hyperhumanism emphasizes reclaiming humanity amidst advancements in AI, touching on themes of art, culture, philosophy, and spirituality, as discussed in a podcast featuring Carl Hayden Smith.
Integrating SoundSelf in Ketamine Clinics
Ketamine clinics, effective for treatment-resistant depression, can enhance patient outcomes by integrating immersive technologies like SoundSelf. This biofeedback and neuro-stimulation tool serves as an adjunctive intervention, potentially improving the therapeutic experience for patients undergoing ketamine therapy.
Journey Into Technodelics | Awakened Futures Summit 2020
A video from Consciousness Hacking discusses the intersection of psychedelics and technology, exploring themes of cyberdelia and future possibilities. Related videos are also mentioned.
Magic, VR, and Ketamine & Internal Family Systems
Virtual reality is not a substitute for therapists; in-person human connections will become increasingly valuable as technology advances. Creative expression through art, music, or movement can preserve the depth of ineffable experiences, avoiding oversimplification through verbalization.
Modeling Psychedelic Tracers with QRI’s Psychophysics Toolkit: The Tracer Replication Tool
A new method called the Tracer Replication Tool has been developed to replicate psychedelic tracer effects, revealing how the time-like texture of experience influences states of consciousness. This tool aims to describe ineffable experiences, standardize a scale of psychedelic effects, quantify drug synergy, and test theories on the quality of experiences. Initial findings suggest distinct patterns in effects from various substances, such as THC and HPPD producing faint trails, and DMT resulting in vibrant visuals compared to the monochromatic effects of 5-MeO-DMT. The research encourages further exploration of these patterns within the scientific community and among psychonauts.
Psychedelics + Technology + Meditation: Consciousness Hacking’s Awakened Futures Summit
Discussion on the intersection of psychedelics, technology, and meditation, focusing on consciousness hacking and its potential future impacts. The content is part of a podcast episode from 2019 by Kent Bye, exploring themes of mindfulness and innovation.
Psychedelics and Dreams: Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
The relationship between psychedelics and dreams reveals their impact on consciousness and self-awareness, with both inducing dreamlike subjectivity that alters perception, cognition, and emotional experiences. They reflect the subconscious mind and often feature strong symbolism and archetypal imagery.
Psychedelics and Virtual Reality: Where Novel Experience, Technology, and Altered States of Consciousness Meet
Enosis Therapeutics explores the use of virtual reality, with or without psychedelics, to enhance mental health outcomes. They aim to address the challenge of retaining insights gained during psychedelic experiences by leveraging VR's immersive environments to create a unique state that helps patients anchor their experiences and understand their newfound insights more clearly.
R.U. Sirius: Reality is up For Grabs | Team Human
Podcast episode featuring R.U. Sirius discussing themes of art, culture, cyberculture, psychedelics, psychology, and technology, emphasizing the idea that reality is open to interpretation and change. Available at Team Human's website.
Recuerda Club
Recuerda Club es un canal que explora temas como el anarquivismo, la cultura, la ciber cultura, la psicodelia, la psicología, la espiritualidad y la tecnología. Se puede acceder a más información en su sitio web.
Replications - Reddit
A Reddit channel titled "Replications" focuses on topics related to computer science, psychedelics, and technology, created by Josie Kins in 2014. Additional channels are mentioned, but details are not provided.
Research Cyberdelics: Context engineering psychedelics for altered traits
Cyberdelics and Cyberdelic Psychotherapy can enhance therapeutic psychedelic experiences through context engineering, which restructures perception and cognition. This approach aims to optimize psychedelic-assisted therapy by utilizing virtual and augmented environments, game mechanics, and principles from positive psychology and mindfulness, potentially aiding in personal growth and mental health recovery.
Rift Into The Mind
A Reddit channel titled "Rift Into The Mind" focuses on culture, psychedelics, technology, and virtual reality, created by JonesRG in 2014. It features related content and links for further exploration.
Shrooms Won’t Make You Believe in God, But They Might Convince You That Robots Have Feelings
A study from Johns Hopkins University indicates that a single psilocybin experience is unlikely to convert atheists to belief in God or alter perceptions of free will. However, it may lead individuals to perceive consciousness in animals, plants, and even inanimate objects like robots. Participants showed slight shifts in attributing consciousness to certain creatures, but their religious and metaphysical beliefs remained largely unchanged.
Sipping the virtual elixir: An autoethnographic close reading of Ayahuasca Kosmik Journey, a self-transcendent virtual experience
Self-transcendent experiences in ancient psychedelic ceremonies, like ayahuasca, can be explored through virtual reality (VR) as a legal alternative. An autoethnographic analysis of Ayahuasca Kosmik Journey reveals insights into the design and experience of cyberdelic interactions, highlighting themes of agency, embodiment, and self-transcendence. The study emphasizes the role of spatiality and sensory engagement in evoking profound emotional responses, while also addressing the limitations of immersive technology in replicating these experiences.
Technodelic Transformation: A Study on Virtual Reality for Psychological Well-Being
Research confirms the efficacy of Virtual Reality (VR) in treating mental health disorders, highlighting its potential as an embodied medicine for transformative experiences similar to psychedelics. The study investigates the effects of SoundSelf VR, focusing on its impact on psychological well-being, transformative processes, and the relationship between non-ordinary states of consciousness and mental health, using a participatory research methodology.
The 4 Levels of Psychedelic Geometry (Ft. @LokaVision)
A video by Josie Kins explores the intersection of art, culture, and psychedelics, focusing on the concept of psychedelic geometry and its implications for spirituality and technology. Related content can be found through the provided YouTube link.
The Oscilleditor
The Oscilleditor is a GUI tool developed by QRI for modeling psychedelic visual phenomenology using coupled oscillators. It allows users to reconstruct and study non-ordinary visual experiences through advanced features like spatial drifting and chaotic coupling. The tool integrates insights from previous research and aims to create structured datasets linking subjective experiences to neurodynamics, offering significant scientific value. Instruction manuals and tutorials are available for users.
The Technodelic Manifesto
Technodelics aim to enhance mindfulness and connection in a world facing rising loneliness and depression. They focus on the present moment, using abstract audiovisual elements to stimulate the brain and engage the body in feedback loops. These experiences are immersive, reflective rather than prescriptive, and extend beyond screens into real-life settings, emphasizing the importance of ritual and ceremony.
The Visual Cast
The Visual Cast is a YouTube channel focused on art, cyberdelia, psychedelics, and technology, created by REM Visuals. It features various visual content and links to other channels.
Tracer Replication Tool
The Tracer Replication Tool by the Qualia Research Institute collects quantitative data on psychedelic tracers. Users are guided to familiarize themselves with the tool, track drug dosage and timing, and adjust parameters to match visual experiences. Caution is advised due to the potential risks associated with altered states, and users are encouraged to understand local laws regarding substances. Resources like the Fireside Project helpline are suggested for those with concerns about drug use.
Virtual Reality as a Tool for End-of-Life Anxiety and Pain with Gregory Roufa and Lama Karma
The podcast discusses the use of virtual reality as a tool to alleviate end-of-life anxiety and pain, featuring insights from Gregory Roufa and Lama Karma. It explores the intersection of technology, spirituality, and the human experience of death.
VR vs. Lumena's Reflective Chamber (MindGym)
A study from the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies reveals that anxiety-reducing experiences in a new reflective chamber called MindGym can be effectively translated into virtual reality formats, enhancing accessibility for anxiety management tools.
VR, Biofeedback, and Digital Therapeutics: The Future of Mental Health
Exploration of the intersection of virtual reality, biofeedback, and digital therapeutics in enhancing mental health treatments, emphasizing the potential of technology in psychology and psychedelics.
We Are Cyberdelic
A video by Jason Silva explores themes of art, culture, future, philosophy, psychedelics, psychology, society, and spirituality, highlighting the intersection of these topics. The video is featured and available at the provided URL.
What It's Like to Take a Psychedelic Trip Without Drugs
A journalist explores the Reality Center in Santa Monica, which uses light, sound, and vibration to create psychedelic-like experiences without drugs. While the sessions provide stunning visuals and relaxation, they lack the depth of traditional psychedelic trips, raising concerns about the commercialization of psychedelic culture.
What the Dormouse Said
John Markoff shows how 1960s counterculture and expanded consciousness shaped the personal‑computer industry, linking psychedelic culture, information technology, and the belief that computers can broaden human freedom.
Why I've Never Mixed Weed With Virtual Reality
Combining virtual reality with cannabis may diminish the unique experiences each offers, as both have transformative qualities that can be compromised when mixed. The author reflects on their fascination with virtual reality since adolescence, influenced by cultural works like Snow Crash and Lawnmower Man.