#1 Griffiths RR, Richards WA, McCann U, Jesse R. Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2006 Aug;187(3):268-83; discussion 284-92. doi: 10.1007/s00213-006-0457-5. Epub 2006 Jul 7. PMID: 16826400.

#2 McGilchrist, Iain. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press, 2009.

#3 The Oracle of Love has been published in digital format only. It is free at most major ebook stores. It can also be found in multiple formats here or by searching "oracle of love i ching" on youtube.

#4 Kevin C. Schlaufman. Evidence of an Upper Bound on the Masses of Planets and Its Implications for Giant Planet Formation Astrophysical Journal. 2018 Jan; Volume 853 Number 1. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa961c.

#5 Polanyi, Michael. Life's Irreducible Structure. https://inters.org/Polanyi-Life-Irreducible-Structure

#6 McGilchrist, Iain. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World (pp. 1288-1293). Perspectiva Press. Kindle Edition, 2021.

#7 LSD Fatalities at Erowid. https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_death.shtml.

#8 Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, 1984. https://maps.org/news-letters/v11n2/11222gro.html.

#9 An interview with Rick Strassman by Avi Solomon May 2011. https://boingboing.net/2011/05/03/strassman.html.

#10 Timmermann, C., Roseman, L., Schartner, M. et al. Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG. Sci Rep 9, 16324 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51974-4.

#11 Haijen, E., Kaelen, M., Roseman, L., Timmermann, C., Kettner, H., Russ, S., Nutt, D., Daws, R. E., Hampshire, A., Lorenz, R., and Carhart-Harris, R. L. Predicting Responses to Psychedelics: A Prospective Study. Frontiers in pharmacology, 9, 897. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2018.00897.

Albert Garcia-Romeu, Roland R. Griffiths and Matthew W. Johnson. Psilocybin-Occasioned Mystical Experiences in the Treatment of Tobacco Addiction. Current Drug Abuse Reviews 2014; 7(3). https://doi.org/10.2174/1874473708666150107121331.

#12 The I Ching or Book of Changes: The Richard Wilhelm Translation rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes. Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, 1951.

#13 I use the word 'empathy' in the sense of a concordance of feeling, a sharing of another person's emotional or sensual experience, without a necessity for suffering that 'em-path' might imply.

#14 Some fine print regarding the words 'influence' and 'control' as used here: Control is meant in the sense of a hierarchical architective top-down control while influence is meant as either a connective or architective affect that is not a top-down control. For example, my internal organs and processes affect me architectively but not as top-down controls, so they are influences on rather than controls of me; having to go to the toilet being an example. The same can be said of gravity except that it is connective - it influences me but does not control me. I in turn cannot control gravity, and though I do have hierarchical control over my internal processes in that they go wherever I go, I do not have control over their behaviour - they decide when I have to go to the toilet. So I do not have full control over my internal processes either. Both gravity and my internal processes influence me and I do not fully control them so they are spirits to me in this wider sense.

#15 Einstein, Albert. Ideas and Opinions (p. 49). Bonanza Books, 1954.

#17 One might attribute a magical quality to emergence, as the macro world emerges out of the quantum world, as water emerges from the combination of hydrogen and oxygen, as life has emerged on our planet, and as consciousness emerges in life. But water emerges reliably from the combination of hydrogen and oxygen rather than capriciously, as does the macro world from the quantum world and as do life and consciousness. And it is always water that emerges from the combination of hydrogen and oxygen rather than anything else. So while emergence may appear magical, there is something orderly about it. And even though what emerges may be completely novel to what went before, whatever emerges is itself also governed by the rules of nature.

#18 There may well be an extrinsic semantic priority to a level of serial meaning in a connective phenomenon when the phenomenon is relevant externally, for example as to which frequency a radio receiver is tuned to or which level of patterning of waves in a pond catches an observer's eye.

#19 How, one might ask, could a consciousness associated with the universe as a whole acquire a personality that is distinct from any other? This will be addressed in detail in the chapters that follow. For the moment, consider that as an emergent phenomenon, this consciousness has become an efflorescence of the universe and does not comprise the universe in its entirety. As will be detailed later, there are aspects to the world that are beyond its ken.

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