#40 Constraining the psychedelic mind with ritual and cultural contexts
When it comes to discussing the ritualization of such unconstrained mental experiences, there are so many variables at play.
#39 Front-loaded phenomenology as pillar of stability in hyperdimensions
I’ve been interested in the difference, or rather the nuance, between Varela’s neurophenomenology and Gallagher’s front-loaded phenomenology for some time.
#38 How to train participants for neurophenomenological studies?
What level of phenomenological training do neurophenomenological researchers expect their participants to have to be able to describe lived experiences?
#33 Cognitive versus cultural neurophenomenology of psychedelics
Does a person’s subjective experiences, filtered through cultural upbringing, have a direct impact on his/her neurophysiology and thus neurophenomenology?
#32 Toward an “entitiology” and neurophenomenology of psychedelic entities
Future of psychedelic entity research entails first and foremost, phenomenological analysis, and secondly, neurophenomenological analysis (in the same vein as Varela’s use of the term).
#30 Neurophenomenology of DMT and phenomenology of psilocybin in an fMRI
Is there a solution to finding a standard, predictable, and repeatable set of phenomenological themes and categories across research studies going forward?
#29 Phenomenological clusters and visionary states of expectation and surprise
What strikes me about Lutz et al’s (2002) findings is that “dynamical neural signatures” match and even predict subjects’ mental states.
#26 Fine-tuning neurophenomenology’s fixed and non-fixed variables
How to graft subjective experiences onto physiological tests? How to use subjective data to look for correlative markers in physiological data?
#24 Applying 4E cognition toward the development of a non-reductive science
We should inject more qualitative methods into the quantitative sciences in order to perform any kind of non-reductionist scientific inquiry.
#23 Assessing expectations of inner space
What interests me are people’s expectations of psychedelic experiences or lack thereof prior to ingestion.