psychonauts
Altered-state explorers
Psychonauts are people who explore altered states of consciousness through meditation, sensory deprivation, or psychoactive substances.
The term combines psyche (mind) with the Greek for sailor, suggesting someone who navigates inner mental landscapes: The psychonauts in the study reported vivid geometric hallucinations.
The community often shares trip reports and harm-reduction information online. (Capitalized Psychonauts is a video game.)
Hallucinogenic substance from fungi
- DMTPowerful naturally occurring hallucinogen
- ayahuascaPsychoactive Amazonian plant brew
- LSDPsychedelic hallucinogen
- mescalinePsychoactive cactus alkaloid
tryptamine · ketamine · salvia · integration · microdosing · breakthrough · visionary · shamanic
Focused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- self-examinationScrutiny of one's thoughts
- soul-searchingProbing one's innermost feelings
- reflectionReturned light or thought
mindfulness · self-inquiry · self-observation · self-analysis · journaling · breathwork
State of perceiving reality
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
- lucidityClearness of mind
awakening · enlightenment · satori · samadhi · gnosis · transcendence · nonduality · ineffable
psilocybin
Hallucinogenic substance from fungi
- DMTPowerful naturally occurring hallucinogen
- ayahuascaPsychoactive Amazonian plant brew
- LSDPsychedelic hallucinogen
mescaline · tryptamine · ketamine · salvia · integration · microdosing · breakthrough · visionary · shamanic · ceremony
meditation
Focused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- self-examinationScrutiny of one's thoughts
- soul-searchingProbing one's innermost feelings
reflection · mindfulness · self-inquiry · self-observation · self-analysis · journaling · breathwork
self-discovery
Learning one's true character
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
awareness
State of perceiving reality
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
lucidity · awakening · enlightenment · satori · samadhi · gnosis · transcendence · nonduality · ineffable
underground
Below ground or countercultural
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
psychonautsconformists
Those obeying social norms
squares · normies · conventionalists · traditionalists · company men
psychonautsastronauts
Crew of spacecraft
explorers · materialists · empiricists · behaviorists · objectivists
astronaut, psyche, nautical, psychology, psycho, psychological, psychedelic, psychosis, cosmonaut