Pasticciata, sia a livello di sintassi italiana che di contenuto.
Tradotta parzialmente e malino dalla pagina inglese, tipo manca la parte che sottolinea la differenza tra psiconautica e uso ricreativo degli enteogeni.
La parte che mette di mezzo l'etnobotanica mi sembra confusa e in generale, mi pare tutto un po' troppo appiccicato alla sfera religiosa (tecniche nelle quali sono stati indotti degli stati alterati di coscienza per degli scopi spirituali di esplorazione della condizione umana... Vi è una notevole sovrapposizione tra un certo tipo di spiritualità New Age...)
Insomma, credo che uno psiconauta come si deve non sia né un religioso né un fattone né un mix di questi due.
Carina anche questa parte mancante:
Methodologies
* Hallucinogens[1] including: DMT, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms, mescaline, Ayahuasca, and very rarely, Salvia divinorum and datura. In traditional cultures entheogenic substances were obtained from plants such as the San Pedro cactus and Cannabis Sativa, seeds such as Ipomoea tricolor ("Morning Glory"), and sometimes from animals such as the bufo alvarius toad. Deliriants such as datura of the nightshade family have at times been used, although these can result in loss of control, lucidity, and may result in delirium.
* Disruption of psychological and physiological processes required for usual mental states - sleep deprivation, fasting, sensory deprivation,[1] oxygen deprivation/smoke inhalation.
* Ritual, both as a means of inducing an altered state, and also for practical purposes of grounding and of obtaining suitable focus and intention.
* Dreaming, in particular lucid dreaming[1] in which the person retains a degree of volition and awareness, and dream journals, both in order to better remember dreams and to further their understanding of their own symbolic internal dialogue[citation needed].
* Hypnosis.[1]
* Meditation.[1]
* Prayer.[1]
* Biofeedback and other devices that change neural activity in the brain (brainwave entrainment)[1] by means of light, sound, or electrical impulses, including: mind machines, dreamachines, binaural beats, and cranial electrotherapy stimulation
These may be used in combination; for example traditions such as shamanism may combine ritual, fasting, and hallucinogenic substances.
Notable psychonauts
* William S. Burroughs
* Alan Watts
* Aldous Huxley
* William James
* Stanislav Grof
* Alexander Shulgin
* Terence McKenna
* Huston Smith
* Havelock Ellis
* Fitz Hugh Ludlow
* Albert Hofmann
* Philip K. Dick
* Peter J. Carroll
* Ram Dass
* Antonio Escohotado
* Jack Kerouac
* Ken Kesey
* Timothy Leary
* John Lilly
* Robert Monroe
* Grant Morrison
* Daniel Pinchbeck
* Aleister Crowley
* D. M. Turner
* Carlos Castaneda
* William White
* Robert Anton Wilson
* Rick Strassman
* Christopher Brooks Kerr
* Victor Pelevin
* Arthur Heffter