Noopoietics and Doxolysis: A Process-Oriented Vocabulary for Deliberately Altered Consciousness
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 18, 2026 Christian Dombrowe
Abstract The scholarly, legal, and regulatory discourse on deliberately altered states of consciousness lacks a neutral vocabulary: its inherited terms — hallucinogen, psychedelic, entheogen — each embed a verdict on the nature of the states they name, forcing a position before argument begins. This essay proposes two process-oriented terms to close the gap. Noopoietics (from νοῦς and ποίησις)...