Psychedelic / Entheogenic Worldview

Time is emergent and infinite — in altered states of consciousness, ordinary temporal flow dissolves into the "eternal now." Time is continuous and non-directional: past, present, and future may merge in psychedelic experience. The entheogenic worldview holds that the everyday experience of linear, uni-directional time is a limited mode of consciousness that can be transcended through visionary experience.

Space is emergent and infinite — psychedelic experience dissolves ordinary spatial boundaries, revealing a space that is non-local, interdimensional, and alive with significance. Curvature is curved or undefined: ordinary Euclidean geometry does not apply in visionary states. Dimensionality is N because psychedelic experience accesses spatial dimensions beyond the ordinary three.

Matter is emergent and finite — in the psychedelic worldview, ordinary material reality is one layer of a multidimensional cosmos. Matter is non-conserved in the sense that material forms are fluid, transformable, and interpenetrated by consciousness. It is non-local because the boundaries between material objects dissolve in visionary experience, revealing underlying interconnectedness.

The observer is a consciousness capable of radical expansion — under the influence of entheogens or contemplative practice, the boundaries of self, time, and space dissolve, revealing layers of reality normally hidden from ordinary perception. The observer can access multiple temporal and spatial dimensions simultaneously: past, future, and mythic time interpenetrate; here and elsewhere merge. In the peak experience, total knowledge feels accessible — the unity of all things is directly perceived, not merely theorized. Yet integration is the challenge: the return to ordinary consciousness makes retention difficult, and the insights of the journey must be painstakingly translated into everyday understanding. The observer is both embodied and more than embodied — the body is the launching pad, not the limit. Agency is active: the journey requires courage and intention. Multiple observers can share ceremonial space, but each journey is ultimately personal.

Infinite and emergent — energy in the psychedelic worldview is not merely physical but includes subtle, psychic, and cosmic energies that emerge from deeper layers of reality. Conservation: Variable — in altered states, the normal conservation laws of ordinary experience appear suspended; energy seems to be created, amplified, or transformed in ways that defy everyday physics. Dispersibility: Reversible — psychedelic experience suggests that entropy and dispersal are not final; healing, renewal, and the reversal of psychic entropy are central themes, as Grof's holotropic breathwork demonstrates.

Expanded states of consciousness reveal informational dimensions normally inaccessible — psychedelic experience suggests that ordinary awareness filters out vast amounts of information. Information is relational because what is accessible depends on the state of consciousness. It is non-conserved because the insights of altered states are notoriously difficult to retain. It is continuous because the psychedelic experience is a seamless, flowing expansion of awareness. The framework distinguishes scales: at the cosmic scale information is non-conserved because ordinary categories dissolve in the visionary state, but at the personal-identity scale information is conserved — the soul or essential pattern is reported to persist, often across what feel like discarnate domains.