Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures by Charles Hayes

Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures


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Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures Charles Hayes
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The psychedelic experience has been both demonized and mythologized, but what \ is it really like to trip? \ \ Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures, the first major \ compilation of personal testimonies about psychedelic experiences, contains \ narratives by 50 people of various nationalities and walks of life about \ their most unforgettable altered states -- from the heavenly to the horrific. \ In gripping, often suspenseful tales suffused with a high sense of adventure, \ Tripping liberates the psychedelic experience from the closet of social \ stigma as well as from the mists of Sixties counter-cultural idealism. \ \ Relating the harrowing straits and exhilarating peaks of the psychedelic \ inner odyssey are many accomplished writers, including former Grateful Dead \ lyricist John Perry Barlow, war photographer Tim Page, Beat poet Anne \ Waldman, science fiction writer Robert Charles Wilson, thriller writer Steven \ Martin Cohen, Ecstasy expert Bruce Eisner, and phenomonologist Paul Devereux. \ \ Most of the narratives, however, come from "ordinary" people from Sydney to \ Belfast to San Francisco, for whom their anonymity brings out an intensely \ personal, confessional dimension. The stories, edited mostly from taped \ interviews by journalist Charles Hayes, enable readers to either "trip" \ vicariously or compare notes on their own experiences. \ \ Specially featured is a lengthy conversation with the late Terence McKenna, \ the man who many believe inherited Tim Leary's mantle as the leading \ spokesman for psychedelics from the late Seventies until his death in April \ 2000. A veteran of myriad "heroic doses," McKenna discusses some of his own \ trips for the first time, as well as a range of issues, including his own \ provocative brand of eschatology, politics, and anthropology, at the center \ of which is an abiding faith in the power of psychedelic drugs. \ \ Tripping's balanced, objective perspective portrays both positive and \ negative impacts of psychedelic experiences, depicting both the tolls and the \ rewards of such chemically-induced excursions from reality. Types of episodes \ run the gamut from encounters with godhead and alien or discarnate entities; \ out-of-body experiences, freak-outs, flashbacks, psychosis (momentary and \ otherwise), and acts or events of apparent magic or miracle. The trips \ described were catalyzed not just by classic psychedelics such as LSD, but by \ a wide array of psychotropics, from the sacred plants of indigenous peoples \ to the latest synthetic "smart drugs." \ \ Some sample plotlines \ At a summer festival, a man on LSD believes he's attending the final \ celebration of the gods and that his mission is to mate with his chosen one \ before the entire tribe moves on to a higher sphere at the climax of the \ "orgasm death dance." \ \ A young man eats some peyote buttons on a hike in the Grand Canyon, and \ stumbles upon a near-death experience. \ \ A group of army buddies test the limits of their bodies' endurance during an \ acid session by a campfire. \ \ The ministrations of the "shining ones", astral beings accessed during an LSD \ trip, lure a college student to higher realms of consciousness. \ \ A psychedelic ingested at the notorious Altamont concert of 1969 triggers a \ bizarre odyssey through the San Francisco city jail and mental health system \ for a fellow who believes he's an angelic revolutionary. \ \ After a dГ©jГ  vu of enlightenment during which he begins speaking in tongues, \ a tripper plummets into the flipside of that experience in an episode of \ horrific eternal recurrence that revisits him in flashbacks. \ \ A wooden carving of Christ speaks out loud to a seminary student during a \ church service, reshaping her theology and the depth of her faith. \ \ The narratives in Tripping are placed in larger contexts by Hayes's essays, \ which include a synopsis of the history and culture of psychedelics from the \ ancient Greek mystery rites to today's Ecstasy-fueled rave events; an \ exposition on the kinetics of tripping (what can go right and wrong on a \ trip), including basic medical and psychological background; and a concise \ index of psychedelic substances. \ The illustrations in Tripping are provided by renowned visionary artist Alex \ Grey and four computer graphics masters. \ About The Author Charles Hayes has been a writer/editor for a variety of businesses and \ organizations, a communications manager for a marketing firm, and a \ journalist whose work has appeared in The Earth Times and E Magazine. A \ resident of Westchester County, New York. \ \

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