Michael Hoffman, December 21, 2022 10:44 am UTC+0
Contents:
- The Exercise
- SOCQ (States of Consciousness Questionnaire)
- HRS (Hallucinogen Rating Scale)
- 5D-ASC (Five-Dimensional Altered States of Consciousness questionnaire)
- See Also
The Exercise
In the present page, I am not starting from scratch taking all the questions from all the questionnaires to pick my favorites.
Update, December 22, 2022 – See the new, relatively complete page:
Eternalism and Control Transformation Effects in the Psychedelics Questionnaires
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/eternalism-and-control-transformation-effects-in-the-psychedelics-effects-questionnaires/
In the present, less complete page, I’m starting from the list of 64 questions which the CEQ authors did a fair job of gathering as their initial pool of questions to pick from, and then I’m picking my own subset of 26 questions, in contrast to the poor, low-relevance, dup-filled set of 26 questions which the CEQ authors picked for their CEQ.
I guarantee that this set of 26 out of the 64 Initial Pool questions will score higher in every way than the terrible set of 26 questions which the CEQ authors picked.
The CEQ authors deleted all the good, control-loss questions, and then picked 6 nice and safe redundant questions (Experienced fear? Were you afraid? Were you frightened? Did you have fright? Were you apprehensive?) – duplicate, broad, vague, safe, sanitized questions.
The CEQ authors value PR more than safety and achieving Transcendent Knowledge, so they got rid of the control-loss questions, with the excuse “Those control-loss questions weren’t hitting the impressively broad width of challenging experiences like our superior categories of questions.” 😑
Here’s their “reasoning” or flimsy excuse to delete the control-loss questions:
“the 5DASC … includes a separate scale [subset of questions] for impaired control and cognition, and for anxiety. While these represent psychometrically justifiable subscales [subsets of questions], these two sub-scales do not address shortcomings of the [OAV questionnaire’s] DED [dread of ego dissolution] scale (e.g. they do not address the wide range of potential dimensions of challenging experience that are suggested by previous literature).” – CEQ article, p. 2
Translation: That’s why we created our own, vague and broad “Fear” category instead of the frighteningly too-specific and narrow “Impaired control/cognition” category of questions, and that’s why we deleted all of the control-loss questions.
Our PR marketing department also appreciated this diffusive broadening of the range of challenges to stop putting the spotlight on just that one little narrow challenge, the over-specific, too-narrow experience of the threat of catastrophic loss of control.
Our marketing department was afraid and terrified of our CEQ discussing dread of ego dissolution or impaired control/cognition, so we needed to broaden that category of questions away into the trash can and replace it by safe categories containing more tractable questions, to protect the safety of our PR marketing department – as we’ve urged, safety must come first.
In the name of breadth of challenging effects, we had to get rid of the control-loss questions and the “Impaired control/cognition” category of questions, and replace it by a broad-ranging, “fear” set of questions which ranges all the way from fear, to fright, to being afraid.
Our PR marketing department was afraid and filled with terror, they were bad tripping over losing control over our messaging to The Public.
So, to uphold the safety of our PR efforts and Do No Harm there, we applied our mathy-looking analysis apparatus to cover up the fact that we didn’t ever specify a reason to remove the “Impaired control/cognition” questions; we merely stated that a broader range of questions than that one subset of questions is needed.
SOCQ (States of Consciousness Questionnaire)
SOCQ Question 4 Feelings of anger or aggression
SOCQ Question 13 Emotional and/or physical suffering
SOCQ Question 16 Feelings of despair
SOCQ Question 21 Experience of confusion, disorientation and/or chaos
SOCQ Question 28 Sense of being trapped and helpless
SOCQ Question 37 Visions of demons, devils or other wrathful deities
SOCQ Question 39 Experience of repulsive biological material
SOCQ Question 40 Feeling that people were plotting against you
SOCQ Question 44 Thoughts and ideas flashing by very rapidly
SOCQ Question 45 Experience of isolation and loneliness
SOCQ Question 52 Experience of fear
SOCQ Question 57 Feeling of being rejected or unwanted
SOCQ Question 61 Experience of meaninglessness and absurdity of life
SOCQ Question 66 Frustrating attempt to control the experience
SOCQ Question 70 Profound experience of your own death
SOCQ Question 72 Experience of antagonism toward people around you
SOCQ Question 75 Convincing feeling of contact with people who have died
SOCQ Question 76 Sense of being separated from the normal world, as though you were enclosed in a thick, silent glass chamber
SOCQ Question 84 Feeling of disintegration, falling apart
SOCQ Question 85 Fear that you might lose your mind or go insane
SOCQ Question 88 Feelings of guilt
SOCQ Question 89 Experiences of intense pressures on various parts of your body
SOCQ Question 91 Feelings of grief
SOCQ Question 93 Experience of physical distress
HRS (Hallucinogen Rating Scale)
HRS Question 9 Pressure or weight in chest or abdomen
HRS Question 10 Shaky feelings inside
HRS Question 11 Feel body shake/tremble
HRS Question 12 Feel heart beating
HRS Question 13 Feel heart skipping beats or beating irregularly
HRS Question 14 Nausea
HRS Question 16 Physically restless
HRS Question 18 Urge to urinate
HRS Question 19 Urge to move bowels
HRS Question 21 Feel removed, detached, separated from body
HRS Question 23 Sweating
HRS Question 24 Headache
HRS Question 25 Anxious
HRS Question 26 Frightened
HRS Question 27 Panic
HRS Question 36 Sad
HRS Question 38 Despair
HRS Question 39 Feel like crying
HRS Question 44 Feel isolated from people and things
HRS Question 48 How soon would you like to repeat the experience
HRS Question 70 Feel as if dead or dying
HRS Question 74 Contradictory feelings at same time (happy and sad; hopeful and hopeless)
HRS Question 75 Sense of chaos
HRS Question 88 Change in sense of sanity
HRS Question 89 Urge to close eyes
HRS Question 94 In control
HRS Question 96 Able to remind yourself of being in research room, being administered a drug, the temporary nature of the experience
5D-ASC (Five-Dimensional Altered States of Consciousness questionnaire)
Impaired cognition/control subscale
5DASC 5. I felt like a marionette.
5DASC 16. I had difficulty making even the smallest decision.
5DASC 24. I had difficulty in distinguishing important from unimportant things.
5DASC 33. I felt as though I were paralyzed.
5DASC 44. I felt isolated from everything and everyone.
5DASC 45. I was not able to complete a thought, my thought repeatedly became disconnected.
5DASC 53. I had the feeling that I no longer had a will of my own.
Anxiety subscale
5DASC 19. I was afraid that the state I was in would last forever.
5DASC 29. I was afraid without being able to say exactly why.
5DASC 30. I experienced everything terrifyingly distorted.
5DASC 32. I experienced my surroundings as strange and weird.
5DASC 38. I felt threatened.
5DASC 63. I had the feeling something horrible would happen.
See Also
Update, December 22, 2022 – See the new, relatively complete page:
Eternalism and Control Transformation Effects in the Psychedelics Questionnaires
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/eternalism-and-control-transformation-effects-in-the-psychedelics-effects-questionnaires/
- How Control-Loss Got Omitted from the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ)
- Human Hallucinogen Research: Guidelines for Safety (Griffiths)
- No Mention of Loss of Control in Scientific Literature Review from Oregon Psilocybin Board
- The Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ): Characterization of challenging experiences with psilocybin mushrooms – Omits Category “Threat of Loss of Control”!
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