psychonaut

An explorer of one's own mind. A psychonaut often embarks on inner voyages with the aid of psychoactive substances, meditation, sensory deprivation, binaural beats, and other means. Most commonly, one who experiments with psychedelic substances, such as psilocybin, LSD, MDMA (ecstasy), peyote, or mescalin. The goal of the psychonaut is to learn about self and reality by transcending normal consciousness. Psychonauts are distinguished from purely recreational users of psychoactive substances in their desire to learn and grow from these experiences.

Rebecca considered herself to be a psychonaut, looking for new ways of understanding the world and herself each time she ate her homegrown magic mushrooms.

by Mark Twilight November 25, 2011

Psychonaut

A psychonaut is Greek for- psyche = soul or spirit - nautes' = sailor or navigator.

So initially you have become a soul sailor/spirit navigator. Seeking altered states of consciousness via meditation, yoga, sensory deprivation, flotation tanks, holotropic breathing, entheogens, entagtogens, plant medicine, psychedelics.

We are exploring our own minds, we are exploring our own soul, we explore our consciousness. We are exploring the universe. The universe is exploring itself through our eyes.

Technically everyone is seeking altered states of reality, going to view a movie.. is for the emotions it gives us. Watching UFC or sports, the primal tribal side of our DNA. Drinking coffee or tea. Listening to music, playing video games, stepping into VR. Being an actor on television. Sipping a beer/wine. Having sex. Dreaming. These are all altered states of consciousness.

I believe before any one does a true psychedelic, they must study philosophy, yoga, meditation, holotropic breathing. You would never have "the fear," anxiety attack, panic attack, PTSD, or chronic depression. It is all being disconnected from the earth, spirit, soul, nature, the universe. The amazonians, the native American Indians, shamans... they know this. We have lost touch with our spirit. That is why we seek these altered states.

A psychonaut is Greek for- psyche = soul or spirit - nautes' = sailor or navigator.

So initially you have become a soul sailor/spirit navigator. Seeking altered states of consciousness.

We are all made of star dust, ruins of the big bang i.e. a super nova, in an ever expanding universe of collective consciousness. - Carl Sagan

You are the universe experiencing itself, if only for a little while. ~ Alan Watts

by ~=Phantom-Shaman=~ November 9, 2018

psychopathic

Superficially charming, psychopaths make a good first impression on others and will often strike observers as remarkably normal. Yet they are dishonest, self-centered, and unreliable, and at times they engage in irresponsible behavior for no apparent reason other than the sheer fun of it. Largely devoid of guilt, they have casual and callous interpersonal and romantic relationships. Psychopaths often offer excuses or make up elaborate lies for their reckless and often outrageous actions, placing blame on others instead. They almost never learn from their mistakes, plan for the future or realize the reprocussions of their actions, and they have difficulty inhibiting their impulses.

My wife is psychopathic. She steals my prescriptions pain meds when she can and sometimes blocks me in the room where I lock up my pills until I give her some. She has had me arrested when I wouldn't give in and after hours of this I pushed my way out of the room and she had her 9 year old daughter run next door to call the cops on me. I was arrested for stopping her from making a 911 phone call. When I got out of jail the next day I found out she and her kids spent the night breaking into my safe. She took all my pills and any money I had in there and destroyed my safe. The new safe I bought has a key override but I locked the keys inside. She hired someone to pick the lock and she got one of the keys out and kept it. After 4 days I noticed my pill count was extremely low for a 3 day old script. She denied it until I recorded her doing it. I filled the key hole with two part epoxy. I couldn't even make the rent more than a few times cause she would get ahold of my debit card, pull out cash and buy pills. I had two new cars that were repo'ed and owe over 90k on loans and credit cards since we got married in 2011. She accepted a summons from a debt collector on 7/1/14 and I didn't know about it until I got a letter in the mail stating I failed to appear and lost by default. She does not work or collect any income. She doesn't even sweep the floor or do the dishes. Hell, the only thing she does is sit on the couch, drink Mountain dew, smoke like a chimney and watch tv.

by SubHuman752 August 1, 2014

psychonaut

A person who intelligently experiments with mind-altering chemicles, sometimes to the extent of taking exact measurements and keeping records of experiences.

"John is a complete psychonaut, last night he took 2c-i and now look at him melting away on who knows what with that notepad in his hand."

by Vega February 18, 2004

Psychopathical

Always over analyzing every detail of the most minute thing until you act like a psychopath.

Your being Psychopathical again! Knock it off you psycho!

by Art_fulldodger July 21, 2016

psychopharmacology

A term often used to claim that one is doing science by doing drugs. Often used in places like erowid and bluelight.ru.

Mark wanted to justify his weed usage by saying that it was "psychopharmacology research".

by inquilinekea March 23, 2010

psychonaut

A person who explores, experiences, and studies their subconscious and reality through the use of hallucinogenic drugs. Many psychonauts also believe that hallucinogenic drugs have mystical and spiritual powers.

The psychonaut chomped on the mushrooms and wondered about eternity and love.

by Mandisa November 5, 2007