From the shaman's hut to the psychiatrist's couch, Mindscapes brings together the very best of two centuries of writing on the vicissitudes of altered consciousness. Reporting on self-experiments with nitrous oxide, hashish, peyote, mescaline, LSD and other phantastica, first-person testimonies describe prodigious journeys into exalted, chaotic and absurd states of mind. The stellar cast of contributors includes Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs, Carlos Castenada, Aleister Crowley, ...
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From the shaman's hut to the psychiatrist's couch, Mindscapes brings together the very best of two centuries of writing on the vicissitudes of altered consciousness. Reporting on self-experiments with nitrous oxide, hashish, peyote, mescaline, LSD and other phantastica, first-person testimonies describe prodigious journeys into exalted, chaotic and absurd states of mind. The stellar cast of contributors includes Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs, Carlos Castenada, Aleister Crowley, Aldous Huxley, William James, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Anais Nin, P D Ouspensky and Alexander Trocchi, amongst many others.
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