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McKenna's ( Invisible Landscape ) wild theories about how hallucinogenic experiences are the last best hope of a world gone mad are at the center of these essays and interviews, most previously published. McKenna interprets three decades of flying through the deepest and highest levels of consciousness, encountering extraterrestrials, unknown languages and "the Other," the self seeking new levels of interior human existence. Much of his experience comes from trips--physical and drug-induced--to and with Amazonian Indian shamans. McKenna is best when he describes the multicolored landscapes and backgrounds of his visions and their settings. Such description, though, is rare; the author serves mostly as millenarian missionary, predicting an apocalypse for the year 2012. He gives short shrift to the demonstrable healing properties of the Amazon drugs, neglecting the most persuasive data as to why natural hallucinogens ought to be taken more seriously. He opts instead to promote hallucination as a messianic panacea for the individual psyche, not unlike the New Agers and pop psychologists against whom he rails incessantly.

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Years after the Summer of Love, the promise of the psychoactive 1960s that deeper self-awareness and greater harmony can be achieved through reality-bending substances and practicesis close to becoming a mainstream phenomenon. The signs are everywhere, from a renewed interest in the therapeutic effects of LSD to the popularity of ayahuasca trips and the annual spectacle of Burning Man.

The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. Based on a unique interpretation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Psychedelic Experience remains a vital testament to broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan meditation techniques and psychotropic substances.

For a new generation seeking the trip of a lifetime, The Psychedelic Experience is the essential guidebook to getting there.

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In 2009 is het honderd jaar geleden dat met een conferentie in Shanghai de wereldwijde drugsbestrijding begon. Het doel was om het gebruik van drugs die van natuurproducten als coca, papaver en hennep worden vervaardigd, en later ook van synthetische stoffen, uit te bannen. Na bijna een eeuw blikt Egbert Tellegen terug op die strijd, waarbij Nederland een unieke rol heeft vervuld als vrijwel continue dwarsligger.

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