After some recent work with ibogaine in both flood and microdose levels, I'm definitely becoming increasingly fascinated with the trend that both of these two wildly different allies both seem to hotwire my memory circuits in a specific manner that isn't shared with more classic, serotonergic psychedelics. The fact that they're both working directly on KOR function can't just be a coincidence?

Yes, i would agree that it is no coincidence! Salvia is especially fined tuned to the KOR, with a high enough dose ones core consciousness can shed - memory, programs,language, symbols, identity, time, space, everything.

With the slight to major ataxia involved, one can allow trapped/blocked/imbalanced somatic energy to shine onto the mental mirror seeing the historical emotional and encoded nervous responses.

The percepts can be easily reprogrammed in a very honest and clear & direct way since the goopy serotonergic net is being bypassed.

http://actu.epfl.ch/news...ciousness-in-time-slice/

This new research is directly about brain activity
but seems to refer to an understanding of something called in this article "unconscious processing" that relates to this topic rather well!


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The brain processes specific features of objects, e.g. color or shape, and analyzes them quasi-continuously and unconsciously with a very high time-resolution. However, the model suggests that there is no perception of time during this unconscious processing. Even time features, such as duration or color change, are not perceived during this period. Instead, the brain represents its duration as a kind of “number”, just as it does for color and shape.

Then comes the conscious stage: Unconscious processing is completed, and the brain simultaneously renders all the features conscious. This produces the final “picture”, which the brain finally presents to our consciousness, making us aware of the stimulus.

The whole process, from stimulus to conscious perception, can last up to 400 milliseconds, which is a considerable delay from a physiological point of view. “The reason is that the brain wants to give you the best, clearest information it can, and this demands a substantial amount of time,” explains Michael Herzog. “There is no advantage in making you aware of its unconscious processing, because that would be immensely confusing.” This model focuses on visual perception, but the time delay might be different for other sensory information, e.g. auditory or olfactory.
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There is a term not used in the article, but in an included diagram, "unconscious feature integration":

This could include anything that can then exist as a feature, as Twig has mentioned just recently: ''memory, programs,language, symbols, identity, time, space, everything.''

I had hoped to find some sort of simple description mentioning something like this:

"Our results also suggest that the KOR/dynorphin peptide system functions to modulate human perception." (Roth 2002)

That is an erowid article mentioning this research (Salvinorin A: A potent naturally occurring nonnitrogenous κ opioid selective agonist)

With the newer research describing "unconscious feature integration", comnbined with the shared knowledge base about what occurs when providing salvinorin A to the kappa opioid receptors, the receptors can be at the moment playfully, preliminarily, yet meaningfully, described as appearing to be a numinous organ system with the capacity to make perceivable (modulate) some of the processes implied by "unconscious feature integration"!