Contents:
- Intro
- Bizarre Omissions from CEQ Initial Item Pool
- The 99 Effects Questions
- Categories of Effects Questions
- Notes
- Links
- Article: Psychometric assessment of the Hallucinogen Rating Scale
- References
Intro
So far, this lists 83 of 99, missing 16.
Keywords for the Egodeath theory highlighted by Cybermonk – key words about experiencing eternalism and its control aspects.
News flash update: Jan 13, 2023:
Griffiths didn’t pick item “It was difficult to control my thoughts.” !!
HOW COULD YOU RECKON THAT THE EFFECT “It was difficult to control my thoughts” IS NOT CHALLENGING — even though it says “IT WAS DIFFICULT“?
So I am now adding notes from CEQ article’s HRS section of “Initial Item Pool” (Apx 2) to here: item numbers and WHICH QUESTIONS GRIFFITHS OMITTED AS “NOT POTENTIALLY CHALLENGING”.
Bizarre Omissions from CEQ Initial Item Pool
It was difficult to control my thoughts.
CEQ: “not challenging” (!!) really?
I had suspicious ideas or the belief that others were against me.
CEQ: “not challenging” (!) really?
Given that Griffiths struggled mightily with their flawed and broken category “Paranoia” that they warn people not to use, why didn’t they pad out their broken Paranoia CEQ factor (category) by adding this HRS question?
Griffiths demonstrates great enthusiasm for padding out their other fabricated pseudo-“categories” by 3 dups of the identical same single effect, “felt isolated” AND “feel isolated” AND “feeling of isolation” –> yay, its a 3-item category! 🤗
Answer/hypothesis: b/c they didn’t add their 7th, Paranoia factor until the last minute, seat of the pants method, out-of-band; see that Paranoia Bunk Factor paragraph in CEQ article Griffiths 2016, p. 13:
“An accepted clinical definition of “paranoia” is “unfounded fears that others intend harm to the individual” (Freeman et al., 2015).
“While one item of the paranoia scale of the CEQ is consistent with this definition (“feeling that people were plotting against you”), the other (“experience of antagonism toward people around you”), while likely related, is not closely consistent with this definition.
“Thus, the CEQ paranoia scale may be viewed as a crude measure of the clinical construct of “paranoia”, and the external validity of the paranoia scale may be somewhat restricted by this limitation.”
Change in strength of sense of self.
CEQ: “not challenging” – really?
Feel presence of a numinous force, higher power, God.
CEQ: “not challenging” – really? subjection to higher power isn’t challenging?
I had feelings of unreality.
CEQ: “not challenging” – really?
Change in rate of thinking.
CEQ: “not challenging” – really?
I heard voices or sounds that were not real.
CEQ: “not challenging” really?
Change in effort of breathing
CEQ: “not challenging” – really? having to effortfully breathe isn’t challenging?
The 99 Effects Questions
find “really?” below:
My body or body parts seemed to change their shape or position.
CEQ: “not challenging”
My surroundings seemed to change in size, depth, or shape.
CEQ: “not challenging”
The passing of time was altered.
CEQ: “not challenging”
I had feelings of unreality.
CEQ: “not challenging” – really?
It was difficult to control my thoughts.
CEQ: “not challenging” (!!) really?
The intensity of colors changed.
CEQ: “not challenging”
The intensity of sound changed.
CEQ: “not challenging”
I heard voices or sounds that were not real.
CEQ: “not challenging” really?
I had the idea that events, objects, or other people had particular meaning that was specific for me.
CEQ: “not challenging”
I had suspicious ideas or the belief that others were against me.
CEQ: “not challenging” (!) really?
I felt high.
CEQ: “not challenging”
I felt drowsy.
CEQ: “not challenging”
25. I felt anxious.
CEQ Initial Item Pool
A rush
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in salivation
CEQ: “not challenging”
Body feels different
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in sense of body weight
CEQ: “not challenging”
Feel as if moving falling flying through space
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in body temperature
CEQ: “not challenging”
Electric /tingling feeling
CEQ: “not challenging”
9. Pressure or weight in chest or abdomen
CEQ Initial Item Pool
10. Shaky feelings inside
CEQ Initial Item Pool
11. Feel body shake or tremble
CEQ Initial Item Pool
16. Physically restless
CEQ Initial Item Pool
Sexual feelings
CEQ: “not challenging”
21. Feel removed, detached, separated from body
CEQ Initial Item Pool
25. Anxious
again: CEQ Initial Item Pool
26. Frightened
CEQ Initial Item Pool
Feel like laughing
CEQ: “not challenging”
Excited
CEQ: “not challenging”
Awe, Amazement
CEQ: “not challenging”
Safe
CEQ: “not challenging”
Feel presence of a numinous force, higher power, God.
CEQ: “not challenging” – really? subjection to higher power isn’t challenging?
Euphoria
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in feelings of closeness to people in room.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in “amount” of emotions.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Emotions seem different than usual
CEQ: “not challenging”
Feel of oneness with universe
CEQ: “not challenging”
44. Feel isolated from people and things
CEQ Initial Item Pool
Feel reborn
CEQ: “not challenging”
Like the experience
CEQ: “not challenging”
48. How soon would you like to repeat the experience
CEQ Initial Item Pool
Desire for the experience regularly
CEQ: “not challenging”
Flushed
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in skin sensitivity
CEQ: “not challenging”
A sound or sounds accompanying the experience
CEQ: “not challenging”
Sounds in room sound different
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in distinctiveness of sounds
CEQ: “not challenging”
Visual effects
CEQ: “not challenging”
Room looks different
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in brightness of objects in room.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in visual distinctiveness of objects in room
CEQ: “not challenging”
Room overlaid with visual patterns
CEQ: “not challenging”
Eyes open visual field vibrating or jiggling.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Visual images.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Kaleidoscopic nature of visual images.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Difference in brightness of visions compared to usual daylight vision.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Dimensionality of images.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Movement within images.
CEQ: “not challenging”
White light
CEQ: “not challenging”
Sense of speed
CEQ: “not challenging”
74. Contradictory feelings at the same time
CEQ Initial Item Pool
75. Sense of chaos
CEQ Initial Item Pool
Change in strength of sense of self.
CEQ: “not challenging” – really?
New thoughts or insights
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in rate of thinking.
CEQ: “not challenging” – really?
Change in quality of thinking
CEQ: “not challenging”
Difference in feeling of reality of experiences compared to everyday experience.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Dreamlike nature of the experiences.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Insights into personal or occupational concerns.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Change in rate of time passing.
CEQ: “not challenging”
88. Change in sense of sanity.
CEQ Initial Item Pool
89. Urge to close eyes
CEQ Initial Item Pool – why?
Change in effort of breathing
CEQ: “not challenging” – really? having to effortfully breathe isn’t challenging?
Able to follow the sequence of events
CEQ: “not challenging”
Able to “let go”
CEQ: “not challenging”
Able to focus attention
CEQ: “not challenging”
94. In control
CEQ Initial Item Pool
Able to move around if asked to
CEQ: “not challenging”
96. Able to remind yourself of being in a clinical room, being administered a drug, the temporary nature of the experience.
CEQ Initial Item Pool
Amount of time between when the drug was administered and feeling an effect. (Put time)
Waxing and waning of the experience.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Intensity.
CEQ: “not challenging”
Categories of Effects Questions
From WordPress-based Altered States Database (ASDB):
http://alteredstatesdb.org/faq/ –
“Originally developed to quantify acute effects of synthetic dimethyltryptamine (DMT), the Hallucinogen Rating Scale has become a frequently used instrument in the assessment of hallucinogen induced ASCs.
“Characteristic effects of hallucinogenic substances are covered by a collection of 100 items conceptually distinct in six distinct dimensions:”
Somaesthesia
“Interoceptive, visceral, and cutaneous/tactile effects
The faculty of being sensitive to stimuli originated inside the body (e.g. Urge to urinate; Urge to move bowels; Sexual feelings)
“18. Urge to urinate” is in CEQ Initial Item Pool,
“19. … bowels” is in CEQ Initial Item Pool
Affect
“Emotional as well as affective responses (e.g.
Feel like laughing;
Feel presence of numinous force, higher power, God;
Awe, amazement).
Perception
“Changes in the process of perceiving.
Alterations in the ordinary visual, auditory, gustatory, and olfactory experiences (e.g. Change in visual distinctness of objects in room;
Visual synesthesia (“seeing” sound or other non-visual perception);
Kaleidoscopic nature of images/ visions/ hallucinations).
Cognition
“Alterations in thought processes or content (e.g.
Sense of chaos;
Memories of childhood;
Change in rate of thinking).
Volition
“Changes in the interactive capacity such as
the faculty of making deliberate choices or decisions.
Alterations in the ability to willfully interact can be addressed to themselves, the environment, or certain aspects of the experience (e.g.
Able to focus attention;
Able to remind yourself of being in a research room, being administered a drug,
the temporary nature of the experience;
Able to follow the sequence of effects).
Intensity
The overall strength and the course of the experience (e.g. Waxing and waning of the experience; Intensity; High).
List of Categories
The HRS has these subscales:
- intensity
- somaesthesia
- affect
- perception
- cognition
- volition
Defines 11 subscales instead of the 3 OAV or 5 5D categories:
Psychometric evaluation of the altered states of consciousness rating scale (OAV)
Studerus E, Gamma A and Vollenweider FX (2010)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2930851/
Notes
There are only 83 items from the spreadsheet I found, where are the others to make 99 total? 16 are missing. These questions are sure unclear and choppy.
Really strange choppy wording of some items. Poorly written, inarticulate.
A non-numbered list, try find better format: (CEQ article gives numbers for the Initial Pool’s HRS q’s)
Links
search: “Hallucinogen Rating Scale” https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Hallucinogen+Rating+Scale%22
Rick Strassman’s Hallucinogen Rating Scale (HRS)
no numbers https://form.jotform.com/220464650288256
Article: Psychometric assessment of the Hallucinogen Rating Scale
Psychometric assessment of the Hallucinogen Rating Scale
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11295326/
J Riba, A Rodríguez-Fornells, R J Strassman, M J Barbanoj
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2001.
Article Filled In
This article links to preprint xls https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/rf88fks8mt/1
References
Strassman, R. J., Qualls, C. R., Uhlenhuth, E. H. & Kellner, R.
Dose-response study of N,N-dimethyltryptamine in humans.
II. Subjective effects and preliminary results of a new rating scale.
Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 51, 98–108 (1994).
https://maps.org/research-archive/w3pb/1994/1994_Strassman_22714_1.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8297216/
Bing Search:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Dose-response+study+of+N%2CN-dimethyltryptamine+in+humans%22
Google Search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Dose-response+study+of+N%2CN-dimethyltryptamine+in+humans%22
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