Michele Pasin / Quotes

Where to find first-hand trip reports

The ’60s and ’70s high tide of firsthand reports is a thing of the past. Today the only popular compilation in print is Charles Hayes’ Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures (2000). Despite patchiness, the fifty accounts make gripping reading. While I was finishing this manuscript, Grof himself brought out a new book, When the Impossible Happens (2006), which contains a large and varied number of cases of trans-personal experience from his own files.

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#psychedelics #transpersonal-consciousness #book #history

The banality of evil

Arendt's book introduced the expression and concept "the banality of evil."[1] Her thesis is that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in…

Eichmann In Jerusalem - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia #book #history

Bicycle Day and the origin of the trip

Soon after he ingested the drug, his entire world began to transform—the colors, the forms—and he felt his ego begin to dissolve. Hofmann grew afraid he had…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #time #ego #history

LSD and the Summer of Love

The decade’s radical movements that were influenced by LSD helped with the expansion of women’s and minority rights, with the most effective anti-war movement…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #counterculture #Timothy-Leary #history

Ketamine and the new neuro-reductionism

Rarely has the new neuro-reductionism been so naked in its repackaging of human experience. Nowhere in the research or the journalism does anyone suggest that…

Erik Davis - On Psychedelics #human-experience #mind #transpersonal-consciousness #consciousness

Psychedelics as a paradox for materialists

Rarely has the new neuro-reductionism been so naked in its repackaging of human experience. Nowhere in the research or the journalism does anyone suggest that…

Erik Davis - On Psychedelics #world #religious-mystic #non-human-entities #human-experience #experiential-states #transpersonal-consciousness

1960s literature on psychedelics

Once again, we have a reverberation with the 1960s, when many people first heard about mind-expanding chemicals through the trip manual The Psychedelic…

Erik Davis - On Psychedelics #book #Timothy-Leary