The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience

By B. Shanon. 2003

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Rapid antidepressant effects of the psychedelic ayahuasca in treatment-resistant depression: a randomized placebo-controlled trial (2018, background): “The acute psychological effects of ayahuasca last around 4 h and include intense perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and affective changes (Shanon, 2002; Riba et al. , 2003; Frecska et al. , 2016).”
The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs (2014, background): “Archetypal themes feature heavily in user “trip reports” (Masters and Houston, 1966; Shanon, 2002), as they do in religious iconography.”