though it were new. The baby is Buddha is an Eastern philosophical aphorism that captures the fresh spiritual state of each moment’s openness and readiness, the in- between entropies for new information surprise. Geyer and Martin Paulus found that entheogenic agents such as Ecstasy also increased the complexity of the patterns of spontaneous motor movement made by rats exploring a bounded space. Recall that they partitioned the floor to document the exploratory motion in the context of a sequence of location transitions, readying the data for the computation of some of the measures previously described. Following the administration of entheogenic agents, the partitioning of the space that the animals were exploring, into a lattice of discrete boxes and the encoding of each square with a symbol, the computable entropic and complexity measures such as H;, Hy, AC and srs were increased. In contrast, the administration of amphetamine-like stimulants led to a different kind of behavioral activation than that induced by entheogenic agents. The measures of Hr, Hu, AC and srs reflected decreases in entropy and complexity. As University of California’s David Segal and others documented in the 1960’s, high doses of amphetamine led to animals into in a minimal entropic state, they were frozen in stereotyped rocking, nodding and circling motions. High dose amphetamine-treated humans develop rigid fixation of ideas, low H7, Hv, AC and srs, in man this is seen as inescapable obsession and paranoid delusion. There is considerable medical evidence that Hitler took large doses of amphetamine (Benzedrine) daily for the last 20 years of his life.
The entheogenic drug-induced phenomena of naive openness and absence of fixation, states of high entropy and complexity, behavior generating higher than control measures tending toward maximal values of H7, Hy, AC and srs , are subjectively reflected in the results of personal experiments of University of Chicago’s Heinrich Kluver as described in his Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations (1966). Observing himself after the self administration of a crude preparation of peyote cactus, he said that it led to glad feelings of unfamiliarity and a marked reduction in his tendency for boredom (habituation), a detachment from old ways of thinking and a new openness to a rush of seen again for the first time
experiences. Everything in his personal world, no matter how mundane, became a
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