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The Consciousness Thread: How Graham Hancock Connects Archaeology to the Spirit World

There is a moment in Graham Hancock's intellectual journey where the trail splits. Follow one fork and you find the lost civilization researcher -- the man chasing underwater ruins, precession codes, and comet impacts.

10 min · 4 researchers · 11 concepts
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Peyote and the Native American Church: The Most Successful Integration of Psychedelic Sacrament Into Modern Society

In the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico and southern Texas, a small, spineless cactus grows close to the ground. It looks unremarkable — a blue-green button, rarely more than a few centimeters in diameter, barely protruding from the rocky soil.

12 min · 1 researchers · 10 concepts
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Ken Wilber's Integral Model: The Spectrum of Consciousness from Archaic to Integral

If consciousness is the operating system running on biological wetware, then Ken Wilber built the most comprehensive architecture diagram ever drawn. Over five decades and more than twenty-five books, Wilber mapped the entire spectrum of consciousness — from the pre-verbal instinctual awareness...

24 min · 6 researchers · 18 concepts
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Psilocybin and the 5-HT2A Receptor: How One Receptor Creates the Entire Psychedelic Experience

Of the fourteen serotonin receptor subtypes distributed across the human brain, one stands apart. One receptor, when activated by the right molecular key, produces the most profound alteration of consciousness available through pharmacology: ego dissolution, visual hallucinations, synesthesia,...

11 min · 3 researchers · 22 concepts