Psychédélique

The term psychedelic is a neologism resulting from the Greek (of “Psyche”, heart and of “delos”, visible, clearly) who means " revealing of the âme". It is largely used with the the United States to designate a family of Psychotrope (usually named Hallucinogène S or disturbing ) including/understanding for example LSD, the mushrooms hallucinogens (Psilocybine), PCP, the Mescaline, the Ayahuasca…

The psychédéliques ones are powerful stimulants which intensify the activity of the brain and the waking state (cf Psychostimulant). They have all appreciably the same pharmacological action and differ between them by their duration from action or the speed to which they act.

History

Origin

The term was invented in 1957 by the psychiatrist H. Osmond, in an exchange of poems with A. Huxley. Huxley had proposed phanérotyme (which can result literally in " Heart open to the vue") :

commonplace To make this world sublimates,
take half has gram off phanerothyme.
Answer of Osmond:
To fathom hell gold soar angelic
just take has pinch off psychedelic.

Popularity

Largely popularized in the Years 1960 under the impulse of personalities like Aldous Huxley or Timothy Leary and intrinsically related to the Occidental culture of this period, these substances, today, for the majority, are regulated. Their popularity was so strong that even certain official authorities as the CIA tried various experiments.

Their reputation remains attached to the carried declarations of the first experimenters and the rupture with the traditional culture which the movement Hippie incarnated.

The use of the term then grew rich, via the popular use, of secondary acceptances such as psychedelic music (see Rock psychedelic, Trance psychedelic) or psychedelic color or even Psychédélisme .

The psychedelic experiment

It is often characterized by Hallucination S (visual, sound….), introspections (sometimes being able to be of a certain psychological violence) and is distinguished from the other psychotropic experiments from the close relation between the frame of mind of the consumer and the voyage which results from it.

As in the use of very produced psycho-credit, the required effects can be sometimes transformed into Bad trip. Moreover, because of the character Hallucinogen of the psychedelic experiment, it can generate serious and durable psychiatric accidents as of the first catch. One speaks then about “persistent post-hallucinatory syndrome”, namely anguishes, phobias, confusional state, depression to see puffed out delirious acute.

The psychedelic plants have a thousand-year-old history and are still in the center of certain cultures (Shamanisme in particular) where they form integral part of the social organization of certain Sibérienne tribes, Polynésiennes, Center-American, etc

See too

Hallucinogen
Aldous Huxley
Timothy Leary
Yayoi Kusama
Antonin Artaud
Carlos Castaneda
Shamanisme
Psyché folk
Rock'n'roll psychedelic
Trance psychedelic
Psychédélisme
Music
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