Open-Eye Visualizations
The antipodes Of the mind November 7, 2002 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199252923.003.0006 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that visual effects are the most salient and phenomenologically rich of Ayahuasca's effects, serving as its primary expressive language, while acknowledging that non-visual sessions can still be meaningful. |
Abstract
Abstract While all the effects of Ayahuasca are extraordinary and all may leave a deep mark on those that experience them, in many respects the visual effects are the most salient. This, Jet me emphasize, by no means implies that a session in which a drinker has not experienced such effects cannot be a meaningful and/or powerful one. Yet, I would say that the primary language in which Ayahuasca expresses itself is the visual one. Undoubtedly, of all the effects of this brew, the visualizations are those that exhibit the richest phenomenology and they are also those that most readily lend themselves to phenomenological description and analysis. This is also reflected in the literature: of all effects in question, the visual ones are those that have been mostly reported on and discussed.