[FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

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Roger, 

 

Many years ago, during my very brief weedy period, I was with a group of people who wanted to smoke pot, but had none.  I suggest that we “enact” it: i.e., do everything we would do if we had pot, but  without the pot.  You know, the passing  of the toke, the avoidance of burning the fingers, the squinting, the sucking, the oh wowing, etc.  It went very well, so well in fact that some participants became uneasy and opted out.   During that same time, we had a friend who would behave badly at restaurants after a few glasses of wine.  We plotted against him, substuting our empty glasses for his full one so he had the impression he was drinking much more than he actually was. The embarrassing behavior went ahead anyway.   N

 

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2022 10:05 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00940

 

This must be on some topic around here.  

 

Originally picked up from https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1056727/vr-virtual-reality-psychedelics-transcendence/, which is paywalled.

 

The original arxiv posting is 20 years old, but the work was just published inh



CHI 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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