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Psychedelia is a name given to the subculture of people who use psychedelic drugs, and a style of psychedelic artwork and psychedelic music derived from the experience of altered consciousness that uses highly distorted and surreal visuals, sound effects and reverberation, and bright colors and full spectrums and animation (including cartoons) to evoke and convey to a viewer or listener the artist's experience while using such drugs. The term "psychedelic" is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''psychē'' (ψυχή, "soul") and ''dēloun'' (δηλοῦν, "to make visible, to reveal"),〔("psychedelic" ). ''Online Etymology Dictionary.''〕 translating to "mind-revealing". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are an array of experiences including changes of perception such as hallucinations, synesthesia, altered states of awareness or focused consciousness, variation in thought patterns, trance or hypnotic states, mystical states, and other mind alterations. These processes can lead some people to experience changes in mental operation defining their self-identity (whether in momentary acuity or chronic development) different enough from their previous normal state that it can excite feelings of newly formed understanding such as revelation, enlightenment, confusion, and psychosis. Psychedelic states may be elicited by various techniques, such as meditation, sensory stimulation〔Psychedelic sensory stimulation exemplified by "The Holotope Experience" utilized by (Bashar ). Explained in YT video titled "About The Holotope Experience".〕 or deprivation, and most commonly by the use of psychedelic substances. When these psychoactive substances are used for religious, shamanic, or spiritual purposes, they are termed entheogens. ==Etymology== The term was first coined as a noun in 1956 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as an alternative descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy.〔Nicholas Murray, ''Aldous Huxley: A Biography'', 419.〕 Seeking a name for the experience induced by LSD, Osmond contacted Aldous Huxley, a personal acquaintance and advocate for the therapeutic use of the substance. Huxley coined the term "phanerothyme," from the Greek terms for "manifest" (φανερός) and "spirit" (θύμος). In a letter to Osmond, he wrote:
To which Osmond responded:
It was on this term that Osmond eventually settled, because it was "clear, euphonious and uncontaminated by other associations." This mongrel spelling of the word 'psychodelic' was loathed by American ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, but championed by Timothy Leary, who thought it sounded better.〔W. Davis (1996), ''One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest''. New York, Simon and Schuster, Inc. p. 120〕 Due to the expanded use of the term "psychedelic" in pop culture and a perceived incorrect verbal formulation, Carl A.P. Ruck, Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Jonathan Ott, and R. Gordon Wasson proposed the term "entheogen" to describe the religious or spiritual experience produced by such substances.〔R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A.P. Ruck, ''The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries'' (North Atlantic Books, 2008), pgs. 138-139〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Psychedelia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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