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'''PsychonautWiki''' ('''PW''') is a community-driven online encyclopedia that is striving to formally document the field of [[psychonautics]] in a comprehensive and scientifically-grounded manner without overly depending on metaphors, analogies, or anecdotal reports.

Its documentation includes an extensive archive of organized content regarding the [[scientific information]] and [[responsible drug use|harm reduction]] techniques behind various aspects of [[hallucinogenic]] substance usage as well as other established means of exploring consciousness, such as [[meditation]], [[sensory deprivation]], and [[lucid dreaming]].

This is presented alongside an integrated descriptive [[subjective effects index]] which is designed to facilitate the breaking down of the consistent experiences induced by specific psychoactive substances and pharmacological classes into easily readable terminologies, descriptions, leveling systems and [[Replication index|example images]].

Our primary motivations include:

* documenting all aspects of [[psychonautics]] (including practices like [[meditation]], [[lucid dreaming]], [[Psychoactive substance index|psychoactive substance use]], [[yoga]], [[sensory deprivation]], ritual, etc.) from a reason-based, scientific [[Guidelines|perspective]] and separating the field from its traditional esotericism.

* providing [[Scientific information|accessible education]], [[responsible drug use|encouraging safe practices]], and rectifying cultural taboos associated with the experimentation and usage of [[psychoactive substances]] by providing accurate, evidence-grounded information drawn from both expert and lay communities.

We welcome contributors and encourage those who wish to further our cause to register an account and collaborate with us. This can be done through the following methods:

*creating new articles and completing the tasks listed within our [[to-do list]] by our [[Guidelines|community guidelines]]

*improving upon existing content by removing errors, grammar checking and adding additional information

*helping our project grow through [[Donate|donations]]

==Active contributors==

| [[File:Josiesmall.png|link=User:Josikins]] || '''[[user:Josikins|Josikins]]''' (Josie Kins, [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]]) - This user is in charge of the formal documentation, description, and organization of PW's [[subjective effects index|categorized subjective effects]], general content production across the website and the overall development of psychonautics into an established field of science. She is the original creator of PsychonautWiki and [http://www.disregardeverythingisay.com DEIS].

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| [[File:Kayleesmall22.png|link=User:Kaylee]] || '''[[User:Kaylee|Kaylee]]''' (Kaylee, [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]]) - This user is in charge of system administration, providing factual/accurate scientific information regarding the chemistry and pharmacology of psychoactive drugs including (but not limited to) their molecular structure and the relevant extractions or [[tutorial index|preparations]] needed to produce them. Additionally, this user edits and produces the video content found on Youtube.

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| [[File:Kenanavatar.png|link=User:Kenan]] || '''[[user:Kenan|Kenan]]''' (Kenan Sulayman, [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]]) - This user is in charge of PsychonautWiki system operations and public relations.

| [[File:clarity-avatar.jpg|58px|link=User:Clarity]] || '''[[user:Clarity|Clarity]]''' (Chris, [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]]) - This user is in charge of PsychonautWiki community and content development.

===Moderators===

| [[File:Catharsisdp.png|link=User:Catharsis]] || '''[[user:Catharsis|Catharsis]]''' - This user is our volunteer for contributing a variety of content and articles regarding general [[nootropic]] information. They have a large amount of experience and knowledge within this field.

| [[File:Corticosteroid-avatar.png|58px|link=User:Corticosteroid]] || '''[[user:Corticosteroid|Corticosteroid]]''' - This user is our volunteer for making procedural edits as well as contributing to articles of new psychoactive substances, focusing on pharmaceuticals. They have a considerable amount of knowledge in this field.

| [[File:David_Hedlund_avatar.gif|58px|link=User:David_Hedlund]] || '''[[user:David_Hedlund|David Hedlund]]''' - This user is our volunteer for contributing a variety of content and articles regarding [[entheogen]]s.

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===Inactive contributors===

====Founders====

| [[File:Noblesirkibsavatar.png|link=User:Sir Kibs]] || '''[[User:Sir Kibs|Sir Kibs]]''' (Kibs) - This user was our volunteer for contributing a variety of articles on [[depressants]], such as [[opioids]] and [[gabapentin]]. They had had a large amount of experience in this field both personally, and as an EMS personnel.

| [[File:Cybie.png|link=User:CyborGhost]] || '''[[User:CyborGhost|CyborGhost]]''' - This user was our volunteer for contributing a variety of content and articles regarding [[naturally occurring sources]] and [[oneironautics]] information. They had had a large amount of experience and knowledge within these fields.

| [[File:Nicolesmall.png|link=User:Fishcenternicole]] || '''[[User:Fishcenternicole|Fishcenternicole]]''' (Nicole) - This user was a volunteer for contributing a variety of content and articles regarding [[harm reduction]], [[responsible use]] and submitting research reports on novel substances. They had had a large amount of first-hand experience within this field in regard to classic drugs and [[research chemicals]].

'''PsychonautWiki''' was created to serve as a wider reaching, legitimate and community-driven version of the popular Tumblr blog known as [http://www.disregardeverythingisay.com Disregard Everything I Say]. This blog was originally formed on August the 22nd of 2011<ref>First post - DisregardEverythingISay | http://www.disregardeverythingisay.com/post/9252430368/disregard-everything-i-say</ref> by the PW administrator known as [[User:Josikins|Josikins]]. It was created with the intention of mapping out [[psychonautics]] and the [[hallucinogenic]] experience in a satisfactory level of formal description that remains seemingly non-existent within the current body of scientific literature.

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The images below show the original notes which devised the first plans for what has now become our extensive [[subjective effects index]] and the entire project as a whole. These writings were written in summer 2011 by [[User:Josikins|Josikins]] during a time in which she was working for a company in central London at age 17. They can be considered as the start of this entire project in its earliest form.

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The PW logo was originally drawn by site founder [[User:Josikins|Josikins]], but was later improved upon and animated by a user known as [[User:Shpongulate|Shpongulate]]. It was later overhauled, redrawn and animated in a more professional style by [http://meredithlaxton.com/ Meredith Laxton]. The original symbol, however, was created by the late theoretical physicist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler] on page 209 of his 1983 paper [http://psychonautwiki.org/w/images/3/30/Wheeler_law_without_law.pdf Law Without Law]. This symbol exists to serve as a visual representation of the most profound subjective effect component found within the entirety of the [[Hallucinogens|hallucinogenic]] experience, a state of [[unity and interconnectedness]]. The eye represents an observer and the line directly opposite represents that which it perceives within the "external" environment. The two sections are connected to each other via arrows to demonstrate that it is a singular and unified system in which the observer's identity is not separate from that which it perceives.

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