My previous post specifically announced a period of inactivity due to the claim that “we are slowly putting together our biggest project yet”. Now after 162 individual articles and 4 months of extremely time consuming work I am excited to announce the launch of an entirely new, fully functional and community driven website under the domain name of www.encyclopediapsychonautica.org.

Since the very beginning, as this website has gradually progressed I have become increasingly aware that a tumblr blog is simply too self limiting of a host for a project of this size. Encyclopedia Psychonautica has therefore been created to serve as a wider reaching, legitimate version of disregardeverythingisay and the format of an open community driven wiki has been chosen so that the project can progress as quickly as possible and potentially become entirely self sufficient in its own momentum.

The website itself is still very much in progress but ultimately exists for the purpose of attempting to establish psychonautics as a legitimate field of science and to reach an understanding of the hallucinogenic experience through a formal documentation and analysis of the consistent subjective effects found within it. We have done this through the act of producing an extremely organized phenomenological breakdown and description of the individual effects and experiences found within a wide variety of differing methodologies in an extremely high level of detail. This has been done from a purely rational perspective which defines its own formalized procedure in a manner which does not depend on analogy, metaphors or mysticism to convey its definitions.

In a fashion that is similar to what I have been doing with DEIS for the past two years but with a more detailed, consistent and formalised writing style, the effects themselves are documented, organized and mapped out through the use of formal literary descriptions, terminologies and definitions which are organized into the separate articles below,

Along side of these literary descriptions, relevant galleries of image examples are used where ever possible to further reproduce and convey specific categorized subjective effects. We have done this through the act of collecting and creating many image examples which have been catalogued and organized into the extensive hallucinogenic replication gallery which can be found here. This page serves the useful purpose of formally documenting experiences in a level of detail which descriptive language and written analysis could not possibly come close to by itself.

The information contained within the links above have then been used as standardized reference points for the ongoing project of documenting and describing the subjective effects of specific substances and hallucinogens within this extensive index here. This catalogue of specific substances currently documents 23 individual hallucinogens and includes a range of substances, plants and combinations which are organized into appropriate pharmacological and experiential categories. For this specific section of the website we have put careful consideration into providing accurate and comprehensive sets of information on not just the subjective effects but on the chemistry, pharmacology, studied therapeutic uses, lethal dosage, addiction potential, tolerance build up and legal issues with which the substance is associated with. This ensures that users can be fully informed in a way that intends to minimize danger, maximize safety and end the cultural taboos associated with personal hallucinogen usage by providing unbiased and scientifically accurate information.

In order to provide the information necessary to understand the basic physical processes involved within the consumption of these specific substances, we have included a comprehensive and relevant set of encyclopaedic pages which break down and describe the various methods of drug action, neurotransmitters, hormones, pharmacological classes and general neuroscience. These pages can be found within this index here and have been carefully written in a way that is both easy to understand for a novice whilst simultaneously remaining detailed and informative.

In addition to breaking down the subjective effects and physical neurological processes behind various specific substances we have also provided sets of instructional information regarding a large host of recipes, chemical extraction methods and growing techniques for the preparation of different hallucinogens. This can be found within our hallucinogen preparation section here and currently includes multiple DMT and LSA extractions along side of changa and ayahuasca recipes which are written in clear, easy to understand step by step instructions. This section will be expanded over the upcoming weeks to include a wider array of preparation methods and serves the purpose of making hallucinogens significantly easier to obtain and more accessible to the masses.

As an experiment which eventually hopes to draw genuine statistical data from user submitted experiences we have included a section dedicated to cataloguing a database of user submitted trip reports which provides a detailed and formal analysis in the form of a tagging system below each individual experience. This serves the purpose of providing the community with a greater understanding of its own personal experiences and allows us to confirm the presence of individual subjective effects within specific substances. At the present moment this database of experiences includes 40 individual experiences and can be found here.

The biggest and most exciting difference between DEIS and EP stems entirely from the way in which anybody can now easily contribute their own personal sets of knowledge, ideas, expertise and experiences to this newly emerging field of formalized psychonautics. The prospect of community collaboration and drawing data from the psychedelic community as a whole has been without a doubt, the biggest source of personal motivation for setting up a project of this scale. There are many ways in which others can help and these include,

Submitting trip reports.

Writing up breakdowns and descriptions of currently undocumented specific substances.

Submitting extractions, recipes, growing techniques and preparation methods.

Submitting collected or original hallucinogenic replications in the form of images, video or even audio.

Submitting currently undocumented subjective hallucinogenic effects.

Writing up new articles.

Expanding upon and editing old articles.

Following the community to-do list which can be found here.

Bitcoin donations (1t5frxXujGz1reHrzNaAq4X3vrNM4c2NL) - any and all donations are greatly appreciated and go directly towards the financial upkeep of server maintenance, producing content and furthering the cause.

If you want to contribute but are unfamiliar with standard wiki formatting or do not feel that you possess the literary capabilities to develop your ideas or information in a comprehensive and legitimate manner, we have provided submission alternatives aside from writing the article up yourself. These include submitting your ideas and content to our community discussion subreddit found here, posting to the inbuilt discussion sections found within every article, talking with us in our live IRC chat room found here or simply emailing us at encyclopediapsychonautica@gmail.com. We strongly encourage you to contribute and even the smallest of submissions are sincerely appreciated. If we as a currently disorganized community of people are ever going to make a difference in terms of finally allowing humanity to benefit from what the hallucinogenic experience has to offer then we need to start collectively organizing and collaborating on a level which until this point, has been completely unheard of.

In terms of the short and long term future of both DEIS and EP, I have a huge multitude of elaborate yet necessary plans and general content that will need to be completed in order to progress the field of formalized psychonautics deeper into scientific legitimacy. For example, the creation of an automated piece of software which can generate accurate and statistical descriptions of any hallucinogen through the use of a complex questionnaire system will eventually be integrated into the website and has already been created in the form a manually operated prototype. Along side of this, I have plans for entirely new sections based on meditation and lucid dreaming as well as over 10 individual prewritten articles that will need to be posted to DEIS over the upcoming weeks. I am feeling more motivated and dedicated to this cause than ever before and strongly feel that we are stumbling upon a discovery of genuine historical significance and overwhelmingly profound implications.

Just to let you know, today is the 2nd year anniversary of DEIS. Thank you for reading and thank you for your support. I am extremely excited to work with all of you in the future and can say with confidence that this is only just the beginning of our projects potential.