IntensiveProtocolArchive

What is an Intensive Protocol?

An intensive protocol is a structured, repeatable practice for entering or modulating non-ordinary modes of experience. It specifies conditions, roles, constraints, and sequences that shape how an event of experience, while refusing appeals to authority, belief, or prescribed meaning. Rather than instructing participants what to experience, intensive protocols set the conditions under which experience can emerge, be felt out, and be collectively negotiated.

Being a genre of open protocols, intensive protocols typically arise outside formal institutions and are circulated in extitutional contexts: scenes, marginalized subcultures, hacker and maker lineages, and all those who seek out in their practice the glowing convergence of autonomy and necessity. Over time, in passing through the creative furnace of the publics, these practices become materially refined and memetically compact systems for reliably entering, modulating, or sustaining intensive states (whether individual, collective, or environmental).

The Intensive Protocol Archive documents these open protocols, alongside first-person experiential reports of their application. Contributors can publish new protocols, adapt existing ones, or share phenomenological accounts of what a practice actually feels like from the inside. All entries are versioned, remixable, and shared under open licenses.

IPA is situated in the underground traditions of high agency, participatory, consent-based coordination that values and strives to respect the autonomy of all life. If your protocols or experiences do not reflect that, please do not post here; if you intend to make use of the protocols found here, please take those axioms as a given in your practice.