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Altered Consciousness

Altered perceptual states as subject matter. Tate on Psychedelic art: it is "generally associated with the 1960s and work made by artists under the influence of the mind-expanding drug LSD", and "it was the hallucinatory effects of LSD" that had the decisive influence. This label arrives as a dangling soft reference from style_psychedelic and now resolves. Registered without a parent for the same structural reason as theme_dreams.
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Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 1 promoted1 source · T1

What the research says

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Keywords
altered consciousness; psychedelic experience; hallucinatory
Cultural notes
Structural, not cultural: no fetched source assigns this concept to a doc 03 theme family. Note also that entheogenic practice is ceremonial in several living traditions; nothing in this batch sources that, so it is recorded as an open question rather than as a flag.
Compatible styles
psychedelic

Provenance

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  • Art Terms: Psychedelic art (opens in a new tab)

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    Tate

    Associates psychedelic art with the 1960s and with works referencing changed states of consciousness under LSD, naming swirling patterns, erotic imagery and hidden messages, day-glo and anti-naturalistic colour, and rock-band poster commissions out of the San Francisco hippy community. An art-historical source; it makes no claim about tattooing.

    museum · retrieved 2026-08-28

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Compatible with · 1

  • → outgoingPsychedelicStyleThin
    strength 0.75promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from themes_seed.compatible_styles of theme_altered_consciousness ('psychedelic'); styles_seed.common_themes of style_psychedelic ('altered consciousness'). Asserted independently from both ends of the relation; deduped to one edge. Confidence is the LOWER of the contributing rows, not the higher. compatible_with is symmetric; recorded once, traversable from either endpoint. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.75 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by TWO parent rows, one from each endpoint's own association column; the pack's scale reads 0.75 as 'frequent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.