Michael Hoffman, December 22, 2022
Contents:
- Objectives of the ECQ
- History of Dimensions: APZ, OAV, 5D-ASC, 11 Factors
- The Inadequacy of the CEQ
- See Also
- Pictures
Intro
This questionnaire selects and groups the key phrases that describe
experiencing eternalism and its control-transformation aspects that are reported by the 5D-ASC, SOCQ, HRS, & EDI (Ego Dissolution Inventory) psychedelic effects questionnaires.
Dimensions/ Scales/ Factors
Block-Universe Eternalism (Time) [12 items]
Experience of timelessness.
Feeling that you have been “outside of” history in a realm where time does not exist.
I experienced a touch of eternity.
I experienced past, present, and future as a oneness.
Feeling that you experienced eternity or infinity.
Loss of your usual sense of time.
Sense of being “outside of” time, beyond past and future.
My sense of time and space was altered as if I was dreaming.
Time passed slowly in a tormenting way.
Change in rate of time passing.
My thoughts and actions were slowed down.
The passing of time was altered.
Block-Universe Spatial Unity [17 items]
I felt that I was in a wonderful other world.
Everything seemed to unify into a oneness.
Feel of oneness with universe.
Experience of the insight that “all is One”.
I felt at one with the universe
Experience of oneness or unity with objects and/or persons perceived in your surroundings.
Loss of your usual sense of space.
Experience of oneness in relation to an “inner world” within.
I felt a sense of union with others
The boundaries between myself and my surroundings seemed to blur.
I felt one with my surroundings.
Freedom from the limitations of your personal self and feeling a unity or bond with what was felt to be greater than your personal self.
Experience of the fusion of your personal self into a larger whole.
Experience of unity with ultimate reality.
Experiences of intense pressures on various parts of your body.
I felt as if I no longer had a body.
It seemed to me as though I did not have a body anymore.
Non-Control, Egoic Agency Suspension [22 items]
It was difficult to control my thoughts.
Frustrating attempt to control the experience.
I had the feeling that I no longer had my own will.
I had the feeling that I no longer had a will of my own.
Feel presence of a numinous force, higher power, God.
I felt connected to a higher power.
I had the feeling of being connected to a superior power.
I felt incapable of making even the smallest decision.
I had difficulty making even the smallest decision.
In control. [scale]
Experience of confusion, disorientation and/or chaos.
I lost all sense of ego.
Change in strength of sense of self.
I experienced a dissolution of my “self” or ego.
I experienced a disintegration of my “self” or ego.
Sense of profound humility before the majesty of what was felt to be sacred or holy.
All notion of self and identity dissolved away.
Loss of your usual identity.
I felt extraordinary powers within myself.
Able to “let go”.
I heard complete sentences without knowing where they came from.
A voice commented on everything I thought although no one was there.
Threat of Loss of Control [20 items]
I had the feeling that something terrible was going to happen.
I had the feeling something horrible would happen.
I was afraid of losing control over myself.
I was afraid to lose my self-control.
Sense of being trapped and helpless.
I felt threatened.
I felt as if dark forces had overtaken me.
I felt like a puppet or marionette.
I felt like a marionette.
I felt as if I were paralyzed.
I felt surrendered to dark powers.
I was scared without knowing exactly why.
I was afraid without being able to say exactly why.
Feeling that people were plotting against you.
I had suspicious ideas or the belief that others were against me.
Experience of fear.
I felt tormented.
I felt anxious.
Frightened.
Visions of demons, devils or other wrathful deities.
Control Model Transformation [26 items]
I felt I was being transformed forever in a miraculous way.
I had very original thoughts.
Able to focus attention.
I felt very profound.
I had insights into connections that had previously puzzled me.
I gained clarity into connections that puzzled me before.
New thoughts or insights.
My imagination was extremely vivid.
Gain of insightful knowledge experienced at an intuitive level.
Some everyday things acquired special meaning.
Things in my environment had a new strange meaning.
Things around me had a new strange meaning for me.
Feel reborn.
Profound experience of your own death.
Feelings of grief.
Feeling of being rejected or unwanted.
Excited.
Difference in feeling of reality of experiences compared to everyday experience.
Feeling that the consciousness experienced during part of the session was more real than your normal awareness of everyday reality.
I had feelings of unreality.
I experienced my surroundings as strange and weird.
The world seemed to me beyond good and evil.
Change in sense of sanity.
Fear that you might lose your mind or go insane.
I was afraid that the state I was in would last forever.
My experience had religious aspects to it.
Objectives of the ECQ
The Eternalism and Control Questionnaire (ECQ) directly addresses the peak challenging experience for safety.
Research that’s informed by the ECQ will provide the greatest number of successful transformation experiences, while minimizing turmoil.
A major, distinctive reported challenging effect of psilocybin is the experience of eternalism and control-model transformation, as the Eternalism and Control Questionnaire demonstrates and highlights.
This questionnaire research enables people to freely use psilocybin while having viable stable control that is compatible with the psilocybin eternalism state of consciousness.
Key Phrases Describing Experiencing Eternalism and Its Control Transformation Aspects
The Eternalism and Control Questionnaire highlights phrases of the standard questionnaire items that describe the experience of eternalism and control transformation.
This questionnaire collects and groups key phrases that describe experiencing eternalism and its control-transformation aspects.
The shadow is usefully identified by the ECQ and the Egodeath theory as:
the control-threat that’s posed by the experience of eternalism during mental model transformation in the loose cognitive association state from psilocybin.
The Egodeath theory is corroborated by its match with these eternalism and control effects that are reported by these questionnaire items.
{king steering in tree} {stand left leg} {see dragon snake monster} {guarded gate} {stand right leg} {snake frozen in rock} {treasure fruit immortality} {pass in and out} {prize}
Effects Categories Matched
The coverage provided by the ECQ and its categories of eternalism and control effects is approximately equivalent to these 5D-ASC categories:
- Experience of unity
- Spiritual experience
- Anxiety
- Impaired control and cognition
- Insightfulness
The coverage provided by the ECQ includes selected items in all of the 5D-ASC top-level categories:
- Oceanic boundlessness (OB, OBN)
- Dread of ego dissolution (DED); anxious ego-dissolution (AED)
- Visionary restructuralization (VR, VRS)
That’s an example of Domain Dynamics:
Visionary restructuralization is involved in control transformation.
Visionary restructuralization is mental model transformation in the loose cognitive state, and elevated awareness able to perceive cognition, which helps drive control-model transformation.
Visionary restructuralization is involved in the eternalism experiential state, driving control mental model transformation.
The three dimensions that are defined in the OAV inventory of psychedelic effects are oceanic boundlessness, dread of ego dissolution, & visionary restructuralization.
History of Dimensions: APZ, OAV, 5D-ASC, 11 Factors
- APZ: 0 – 1975
- OAV: 3 – 1994 (identified in 1985)
- 5D-ASC: 5 – 2006 – keeps the OAV 3, adds 2 supp’l unused dimensions.
- 11 Factors: 11 – 2010 – they replace & fit within the OAV 3 dimensions.
The main 3 of the 5 dimensions which are defined in Dittrich’s v2 of APZ, OAV (1994, identified in 1985): oceanic boundlessness, dread of ego dissolution, & visionary restructuralization.
The name “OAV” indicates that here is when Dittrich defined the main 3 dimensions (along with General): O, A, V = OB, AEA (DED), VR.
- APZ (1975) used 0 categories.
- OAV (1994) used 3 dimensions (identified in 1985): oceanic boundlessness, dread of ego dissolution, visionary restructuralization.
- 5D-ASC (2006) added two rarely used dimensions (auditory alterations, reduction of vigilance).
- Studerus 2010 replaced the 3 main broad dimensions by more granular breakout of those 3 main dimensions to 11 more granular dimensions.
Oceanic boundlessness, dread of ego dissolution, & visionary restructuralization fit together and work all together to transform from naive possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking.
Egoic control agency is tested and experimented with by the God-mode mind, by combining oceanic boundlessness, dread of ego dissolution, and visionary restructuralization, working together toward the specific end, of transforming the mental model to be imperishable, no longer subject to that type of control-collapse.
Visionary restructuralization – control transformation mental model transferring control reliance onto a different foundation/ source.
Questionnaires Used
This questionnaire includes effects questions from these main psychedelics questionnaires:
- Five-Dimensional Altered States of Consciousness (5D-ASC)
- Hallucinogen Rating Scale (HRS)
- States of Consciousness Questionnaire (SOCQ)
- … Mystical Experiences Questionnaire (MEQ)
- Ego Dissolution Inventory (EDI)
The ECQ questionnaire proves that the Egodeath theory (psychedelic eternalism) successfully explains the most important of the challenging effects – the shadow (dragon monster).
The ECQ questionnaire together with the Egodeath theory is essential for understanding the nature of the most interesting risk of psychedelics, the experience of threat of loss of control while transforming thinking.
Relation Between ECQ, the Main Psychedelic Questionnaires, and the Egodeath Theory
The ECQ bridges the standard psychedelic questionnaires with the Egodeath theory.
Designing the Eternalism and Control Questionnaire (ECQ)
The Egodeath theory here defines a new subset-based questionnaire comparable to the Challenging Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ), by selecting psychedelic effects questions from the main standard questionnaires: the Eternalism and Control Questionnaire (ECQ).
This ECQ questionnaire lists and groups the eternalism and control-transformation effects that are in the psychedelics effects questionnaires.
Strategy for further grouping into categories per the Egodeath theory – check the 1997 outline topic categories, and the topic categories in the Core Concepts page.
The ECQ is presently missing some questions from some of the main questionnaires, which are surprisingly hard to find.
See my per-questionnaire posts to identify the item numbers and name of which questionnaire each effect item is from.
The Inadequacy of the CEQ
The Challenging Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ) is inadequate and doesn’t deliver on its stated strategic coverage of all of the reported negative experiences.
When the Initial Pool of 64 questions was reduced to the final set of 26 questions, all of the control-loss related questions were removed, leaving the peak challenging experience without any coverage.
The CEQ doesn’t discuss the decision to remove the control-loss questions; this selection process is undocumented.
The main objective of the CEQ wasn’t met: to provide a superset of the scope of challenging effects that are covered by the main questionnaires.
The main questionnaires cover an important negative effect that the CEQ removes from their scope of coverage: control-loss problems.
The CEQ isn’t driven by a comprehension of eternalism including control challenges, but the Eternalism and Control Questionnaire is.
The ECQ covers control-loss effects as its focus together with experiencing eternalism – providing a better treatment of these effects than the SOCQ, HRS, and 5D-ASC.
The ECQ provides the safety coverage and framework of comprehension to effectively provide the coverage which CEQ Initial Pool had but the final CEQ lacks and declined to cover.
Charles Stang’s assertion stands, despite the CEQ. Roland Griffiths claims to match negative as well as positive mystic experiencing effects, but upon examination of the 26 final items vs. the 64 Initial Pool items, the CEQ delivers woefully inadequate coverage of major, common, quintessential psychedelic effects, of non-control challenges during transformation of control agency.
Researchers need to continue using DED (dread of ego dissolution), ICC (impaired control and cognition), and now this ECQ, because the CEQ has a fatal gap in coverage of negative effects, that the main instruments cover.
The CEQ claims to deliver a superset of the main instruments’ negative effects coverage, but it’s actually only a partial overlap.
The CEQ fails to provide the complete coverage that it claims, and so – by its own argument – it leaves risky challenges without coverage or acknowledgement, suppressing the shadow, failing to acknowledge the commonplace experience of the threat of catastrophic loss of control while transforming to the eternalism mental world model.
At the same time CEQ added Depression, claiming complete coverage, then they shrank to exclude all ICC control-related problems, so that the CEQ fails to do what it claims: provide full coverage of the negative, challenging effects that are actually reported by mystics and by the main questionnaires.
We cannot remove control-loss questions even if we add psychotherapy-conformant depression questions to the previous questionnaires.
Why is CEQ removing coverage of control-loss questions, instead of providing the superset of coverage that they claimed motivated the creation of the CEQ?
Control-loss effects need to be recognized and understood, as they are by the ECQ.
Mental World Model Transformation and Control Transformation
— Michael Hoffman, December 22, 2022
See Also
- 5D-ASC – “Five-Dimensional Altered States of Consciousness” Questionnaire
- HRS – “Hallucinogen Rating Scale” Questionnaire
- SOCQ – “States of Consciousness Questionnaire”
- EDI – “Ego Dissolution Inventory”
- The Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ): Characterization of challenging experiences with psilocybin mushrooms – Omits Category “Threat of Loss of Control”!
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