Thursday, March 6, 2008

Are you a Psychonaut?

A psychonaut (means "sailor of the mind/soul") is a person who uses altered states of consciousness, intentionally induced, to investigate his or her mind, and possibly address spiritual questions, through direct experience.

Famous psychonauts are for ex.:

Albert Hofmann
Alexander and Ann Shulgin
Aldous Huxley
Alan Watts
Daniel Pinchbeck
Dennis McKenna
Ernst Jünger
Jack Kerouac
John C. Lilly
Jonathan Ott
Michael Hoffman
Peter Carroll
William S. Burroughs
Ralph Metzner
Dr. Rick Strassman
Robert Anton Wilson
Rupert Sheldrake
Dr. Stanislav Grof
Terence McKenna
Dr. Timothy Leary

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychonaut

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