Volume 12 No 3 (2014)
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Does the Nervous System Have an Intrinsic Archaic Language? Entoptic Images and Phosphenes
H. Ümit Sayin
Abstract
Psychoactive plants have been consumed by many cultures, cults and groups during religious rituals and ceremonies for
centuries and they have been influential on the eruption of many images, secret and religious symbols, esoteric
geometrical shapes, archetypes, religious figures, and philosophy of religions since the dawn of Homo sapiens. Some of
the psychoactive plants used for religious purposes were: narcotic analgesics (opium), THC (cannabis), psilocybin (magic
mushrooms), mescaline (peyote), ibogaine (Tabernanthe iboga), DMT (Ayahuasca and Phalaris species), Peganum
harmala, bufotenin, muscimol (Amanita muscaria), Thujone (absinthe, Arthemisia absinthium), ephedra, mandragora,
star lotus, Salvia divinorum etc.
Keywords
entoptic, phosphene, hallucinogen, archaic neurological language, paganism, shamanism, psychoactive plants, opium, cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT, ayahuasca, thujone, peganum harmala, phalaris, ibogaine, peyote, magic mushroom
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