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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Though the principal effect of nitrous oxide is to dull rather than stimulate consciousness, this most commonly used of all the anaesthetic gases has a history of medicinal and philosophical experimentation which documents some of its more unusual effects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Doctor Zachary, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Club des Haschischins, Courtenay Lemon, Miserable Miracle, New York, Timothy Leary, Book of Revelation, Bristol Road, George Litwin, Good Lord New!
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Though the principal effect of nitrous oxide is to dull rather than stimulate consciousness, this most commonly used of all the anaesthetic gases has a history of medicinal and philosophical experimentation which documents some of its more unusual effects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comic spirit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctor Zachary, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Club des Haschischins, Courtenay Lemon, Miserable Miracle, New York, Timothy Leary, Book of Revelation, Bristol Road, George Litwin, Good Lord New!
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- The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell: Two Complete Nonfiction Works (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley on 6 pages
- Miserable Miracle (New York Review Books Classics) by Henri Michaux on 4 pages
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda in Front Matter, page 142, and page 173
- High Priest (Leary, Timothy) by Timothy Leary in Front Matter, page 198, and page 223
- The way of the shaman by Michael J Harner in Front Matter, and page 166
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