The noetic connection: synaesthesia, psychedelics, and language
Digital Creativity January 1, 2005 Diana Slattery 4 citations
Synaesthesias are understood and interpreted differently across scientific, art-historical, literary, phenomenological, ethnographic, and psychedelic literatures, reflecting varying comfort with first-person experiential reports. This paper examines connections between synaesthesias, psychedelic experience, and language, focusing on Terence McKenna's synaesthetic language experiences on DMT and magic mushrooms. It also describes the challenges of creating and performing with the Synestheater, a system that enables live, multi-mapped weaving of visual, aural, and linguistic systems in performance.