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Willy-nilly, Nature's entheogenic agents have provided compelling evidence for the following two most interesting of propositions: firstly that consciousness is a form of information substantiated within the brain's neuronal firing activity, and secondly that this kind of cerebral information has a tendency to organise and integrate itself. Evidence in support of the first proposition was provided through looking at the ways in which consciousness becomes altered through subtle alterations in the chemistry underlying neuronal firing. Chemically induced changes in global states of neuronal firing are equatable with changes in consciousness, and since global states of neuronal firing must be global states of information (what else could they be?) we can conclude that consciousness is a form of information.
Evidence to support the second proposition - that cerebral information has a tendency to organise itself - came from an examination of entheogenic phenomenology and even dreaming, both processes highlighting the way in which psychological information organises itself without a deliberate effort on our part to do so. Which is to say that we can find ourselves experiencing shamanic visions after ingesting entheogenic agents or likewise find ourselves experiencing elaborate dream scenarios whilst we sleep (perhaps mediated by endogenous DMT).
The former experience, the entheogenic visionary state, seems to represent a most extreme manifestation of informational organisation, so much so that a third proposition suggests itself, namely that an intelligent Other, distinct from the ego/self, lies behind the sacred thrust of psychedelic phenomenology. Such a dissociated Other can be considered to represent an organised source of intentional information which communicates with an individual whose neuronal system is infused with entheogenic alkaloids. We can thus concur with Huxley with his assertion that psychedelics allow a greater amount of what he called Mind at Large to flow into conscious perception. The Mind at Large is the Other, the Gaian Mind, which potentially interfaces with the human psyche, revealing itself in the shamanic experience and possibly during symbolic dreams. Information is the stuff of both the Other and the human mind. Conscious experience is information in process, as is the entheogenic experience. The greater the field of information being processed or integrated, the more conscious may we become (the word consciousness means 'knowing together').
In all three propositions, it is most definitely the term 'information' which fits the theoretical picture. This chapter attempts to formally elucidate this information-based scenario and to explore further the nature of information and its role in the Universe at large.
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