
thumb|right|upright|Illustration from The Secret of the Golden Flower, a Chinese book of alchemy and meditation.
thumb|right|upright|Illustration from The Secret of the Golden Flower, a Chinese book of alchemy and meditation.
Psychonautics (from the Ancient Greek '''' 'soul, spirit, mind' and '''' 'sailor, navigator') refers both to a methodology for describing and explaining the subjective effects of altered states of consciousness, including those induced by meditation or mind-altering substances, and to a research group in which the researcher voluntarily immerses themself in an altered mental state in order to explore the accompanying experiences.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).