This is an unofficial archive of PsychonautWiki as of 2025-08-11T15:14:44Z. Content on this page may be outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate. Please refer to the original page for the most up-to-date information.
Personal bias suppression: Difference between revisions
>Graham Refs: Better Analysis. Also "Psychedelic visions practically offer a glance into the workings of cognitive and— especially—affective schematism which are constantly functioning in our ordinary life." |
>Graham Placing analysis back to what I made it. |
||
| (9 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<onlyinclude> | <onlyinclude> | ||
'''Personal bias suppression''' (also called '''cultural filter suppression''') is a decrease in the personal or cultural biases, preferences, and associations which a person knowingly or unknowingly filters and interprets their perception of the world through.<ref name=" | '''Personal bias suppression''' (also called '''cultural filter suppression''') is defined as a decrease in the personal or cultural biases, preferences, and associations which a person knowingly or unknowingly filters and interprets their perception of the world through.<ref name="HorváthSzummer2017">{{cite journal|last1=Horváth|first1=Lajos|last2=Szummer|first2=Csaba|last3=Szabo|first3=Attila|title=Weak phantasy and visionary phantasy: the phenomenological significance of altered states of consciousness|journal=Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences|volume=17|issue=1|year=2017|pages=117–129|issn=1568-7759|doi=10.1007/s11097-016-9497-4}}</ref> | ||
Analyzing one's beliefs, preferences, or associations while experiencing personal bias suppression can lead to new perspectives that one could not reach while sober. The suppression of this innate tendency often induces the realization that certain aspects of a person's personality, world view and culture are not reflective of objective truths about reality, but are in fact subjective or even delusional opinions.<ref name=" | Analyzing one's beliefs, preferences, or associations while experiencing personal bias suppression can lead to new perspectives that one could not reach while sober. The suppression of this innate tendency often induces the realization that certain aspects of a person's personality, world view and culture are not reflective of objective truths about reality, but are in fact subjective or even delusional opinions.<ref name="HorváthSzummer2017" /> This realization often leads to or accompanies deep states of insight and critical introspection which can create significant alterations in a person's perspective that last anywhere from days, weeks, months, or even years after the experience itself. | ||
Personal bias suppression is often accompanied by other coinciding effects such as [[conceptual thinking]], [[analysis enhancement]], and especially [[memory suppression]]. It is most commonly induced under the influence of [[dosage#heavy|heavy]] dosages of [[hallucinogen|hallucinogens]] such as [[dissociative|dissociatives]] and [[psychedelic|psychedelics]]. However, it can also occur to a much lesser extent under the influence of very heavy dosages [[entactogen|entactogens]] and [[cannabinoid|cannabinoids]]. | Personal bias suppression is often accompanied by other coinciding effects such as [[conceptual thinking]], [[analysis enhancement]], and especially [[memory suppression]]. It is most commonly induced under the influence of [[dosage#heavy|heavy]] dosages of [[hallucinogen|hallucinogens]] such as [[dissociative|dissociatives]] and [[psychedelic|psychedelics]]. However, it can also occur to a much lesser extent under the influence of very heavy dosages [[entactogen|entactogens]] and [[cannabinoid|cannabinoids]]. | ||
| Line 13: | Line 13: | ||
The recognition of these visual experiences of psychedelics as symbolic representations has a precedent in the concept of presentational symbolism. Presentational symbolism is an imagetic capacity that is foundational to meaning-making, a symbolic representation system that precedes and supports our rational, language based consciousness. This ancient mode of imaginal consciousness appears in dreams and daydreaming, as well as shamanic visions, mystical experiences, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and psychedelic visions. These processes may be released by a variety of mechanisms that cause disruptions in filtering processes that normally repress these archaic forms of cognition. | The recognition of these visual experiences of psychedelics as symbolic representations has a precedent in the concept of presentational symbolism. Presentational symbolism is an imagetic capacity that is foundational to meaning-making, a symbolic representation system that precedes and supports our rational, language based consciousness. This ancient mode of imaginal consciousness appears in dreams and daydreaming, as well as shamanic visions, mystical experiences, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and psychedelic visions. These processes may be released by a variety of mechanisms that cause disruptions in filtering processes that normally repress these archaic forms of cognition. | ||
It's also been proposed that these processes also function constantly in our daily life, a kind of autonomic cognitive act that produces conscious experiences and affect in a synthesis of perception and thinking. Visionary experiences express a personal affectivity and representational capacities that directly present to the subject material that emerges from their own deep personal affective layers of consciousness. Psychedelic-induced visionary experiences involve the stimulation of powerful manifestations of this latent human cognitive capacity that is a background to all experience. When released by psychedelics this visionary modality easily and effortlessly takes dominance of our consciousness through an internal engagement with deep narrative levels of the mind that present the significant affective dynamics of life. It's been noted that this expressive system provides a medium for three forms of material essential for the performance of thinking: the ability to retain in mind an object; engender other cognitions regarding this image object; and manipulate these to consider future possibilities.<ref>Winkelman, M. J. | It's also been proposed that these processes also function constantly in our daily life, a kind of autonomic cognitive act that produces conscious experiences and affect in a synthesis of perception and thinking. Visionary experiences express a personal affectivity and representational capacities that directly present to the subject material that emerges from their own deep personal affective layers of consciousness. Psychedelic-induced visionary experiences involve the stimulation of powerful manifestations of this latent human cognitive capacity that is a background to all experience. When released by psychedelics this visionary modality easily and effortlessly takes dominance of our consciousness through an internal engagement with deep narrative levels of the mind that present the significant affective dynamics of life. It's been noted that this expressive system provides a medium for three forms of material essential for the performance of thinking: the ability to retain in mind an object; engender other cognitions regarding this image object; and manipulate these to consider future possibilities.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors=((Winkelman, M. J.)) | journal=Frontiers in Neuroscience | title=The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences: Hypotheses from Evolutionary Psychology | volume=11 | date= 2017 | url=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2017.00539 | issn=1662-453X}}</ref> | ||
===Psychoactive substances=== | ===Psychoactive substances=== | ||
Compounds within our [[psychoactive substance index]] which may cause this effect include: | Compounds within our [[psychoactive substance index]] which may cause this effect include: | ||
| Line 27: | Line 28: | ||
*[[Deliriants#Subjective_effects|Deliriants - Subjective effects]] | *[[Deliriants#Subjective_effects|Deliriants - Subjective effects]] | ||
===External links=== | ===External links=== | ||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_%28psychology%29 Schema (psychology)] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_%28psychology%29 Schema (psychology) (Wikipedia)] | ||
===References=== | ===References=== | ||
<references/> | <references /> | ||
[[Category:Cognitive]] [[Category:Suppression]] [[Category:Effect]] | [[Category:Cognitive]] | ||
[[Category:Suppression]] | |||
[[Category:Effect]] | |||
{{#set:Featured=true | {{#set:Featured=true | ||
|Belongs to=Cognitive effects | |Belongs to=Cognitive effects | ||
}} | }} | ||