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This article is a lazy ctrl-c from psychonautwiki.

For example: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Geometry#8B_-_Perceived_expo...

I'm so sorry you did not enjoy it! We wanted to bring Josie Kins' index and research to our readers and did reach out to them for a bit of background.

I enjoyed it, people like to complain. If you wanna go further back on sources there's some pretty good stuff in like, math magazines hahaha

https://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-spiral-maths-and-ha...

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Just checked that link out and whoa, very cool.

Yeah Bresseloff is the man. Def check his work out, Ralph Abrams passed away recently (RIP) but he definitely had some words to say about all this stuff too, used to talk a lot with Mckenna and the unfortunate crank Sheldrake in trialogues which are fun reading if you got a mind open to that kind of thing

https://bressloff.github.io/index.html

Some other links - not only how the cortex got its stripes but how the leopard got its spots. You see alot of this math in psychedelic visuals now (Reaction-diffusion networks etc)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5056826/

https://plus.maths.org/content/how-leopard-got-its-spots

'Wail to god' (the second piece of artwork at that link) strongly resembles a brighter, faster, and more detailed version of what I see whenever I close my eyes but still try to pay attention to what I'm "seeing".

(Normally, I "tune out" my visual field when I close my eyes. And for reference, my mind's eye is weak, but I do not think I have complete aphantasia.)

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