Ayahuasca Hallucinations & Perception

Stephen Beyer, Ph.D., relates ayahuasca hallucinations to recent research in cognitive neuropsychiatry, especially with regard to source monitoring, Charles Bonnet hallucinations, and gap-filling; and explores the relationship between ayahuasca hallucinations and other visionary experiences-lucid dreams, DMT journeys, out-of-body experiences, false awakenings, waking dreams, apparitions, eidetic visualization, and active imagination, all characterized by a greater or lesser degree of presentness, detail, externality, and three-dimensional explorable spacefulness.

This video is from Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century, a conference taking in place in San Jose, California on April 15-18, 2010. The conference was organized by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in collaboration with the Heffter Research Institute, the Council on Spiritual Practices, and the Beckley Foundation.

This video was produced by Green Fuse Media, contact Nathan at greenfusefilms@gmail.com.

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