Chest — heart opening
affect, connection and relational response
Contemporary accounts often describe emotional or relational shifts during psychedelic experiences, while Indigenous and clinical frameworks interpret them differently. The chest point is an editorial target-organ projection, not a guaranteed effect or medical recommendation.
Point 3 of 6 in Psychedelic Body Mapping
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann, Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (scholarly_modern)
Documents ethnobotanical histories and ritual uses of psychoactive plants across cultures; see chapters on ayahuasca, peyote and other sacred plants.
Luis Eduardo Luna, Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon (scholarly_modern)
Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods (secondary)