Notes: Chapter 22h: The Internal Trust Attractor
Chapter notes for “Chapter 22h: The Internal Trust Attractor”
Notes
31 Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (1969). Turner’s communitas describes intense social bonding emerging when ordinary social structures temporarily dissolve — not an organized structure but an undifferentiated mode of human relatedness arising in liminal spaces.
32 Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann, Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (1979). Foundational ethnobotanical survey documenting independent discovery and ceremonial use of psychoactive plants across cultures worldwide. The convergent discovery pattern suggests the phenomenon is real rather than culturally constructed.
33 Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind (2018). Synthesis of the psychedelic research renaissance emphasizing the critical role of integration work — the therapeutic processing that transforms a temporary altered state into lasting psychological change.
34 Carhart-Harris, R.L., et al., “The entropic brain,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8 (2014): 20; and “Neural correlates of the LSD experience revealed by multimodal neuroimaging,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (2016): 4853-4858. Established that psychedelics reduce the integrity of the default mode network and the segregation between brain networks, producing a measurably more entropic brain state.