Otherworlds - David Luke

Otherworlds

Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
300 Seiten
2019
Aeon Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9160689-6-4 (ISBN)
27,95 inkl. MwSt
A comprehensive exploration of chemically mediated extra ordinary human experiences.



Scientist and psychonaut David Luke weaves personal experience and scientific research to create Otherworlds - Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience.



“Emphasizing parapsychological aspects of the psychedelic experience, Luke’s new book fills in a fascinating and previously neglected lacuna in the burgeoning field of human studies with these compounds. ” – Rick Strassman, PhD 



“A psychedelic Indiana Jones. ” – Matt Colborn, PhD



“David Luke’s delightful one-liner about his book is that it’s ‘about weird people in weird places taking weird substances doing weird things and, importantly, having weird experiences’ . . . On reflection, it’s much more profound than that . . . So weird reader, forge ahead without fear. ” – Dean Radin, PhD 



“In his fascinating book David plunges into this controversial topic and gives the backstory, the front story, and possible ways forward to bring paranormal and psychedelic research together, and further our understanding of both. ” – Dennis J. McKenna, PhD 



“A remarkable collection and a necessary one. This body of research illuminates aspects of psychedelic experiences usually obscured or denied in the medical and clinical research and sensationalized in the popular press. ” – James Fadiman, PhD



“A real Dr Gonzo. ” – Will Self

Dr David Luke is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, UK, where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009, and he is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, and Lecturer on the MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology for Alef Trust and Liverpool John Moores University. He was President of the Para-psychological Association, founded the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon in London and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. He has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspectives of science and shamanism.

Acknowledgements



Foreword – Dr Dean Radin



Preface



SECTION 1: Explorations of Exceptional Entheogen Experiences



Chapter 1: Notes on Getting Cactus Lodged in Your Reducing Valve: San Pedro and Psychic Abilities



Chapter 2. Psychedelic Possession: The Growing Incorporation of Incorporation into Ayahuasca Use



Chapter 3. The Induction of Synaesthesia with Chemical Agents: A Systematic Review (with Devin Terhune)



Chapter 4. Rock Art or Rorschach: Is There More to Entoptics Than Meets the Eye?



Chapter 5. Discarnate Entities and Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): Psychopharmacology, Phenomenology and Ontology



Chapter 6. Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters



Chapter 7. Psychedelics and Species Connectedness



SECTION 2: Do Psychedelics Like Psilocybin Really Cause Psi?



Chapter 8. Psychoactive Substances and Paranormal Phenomena Review



Chapter 9. Psychedelic/Neurochemical Models of Paranormal Experience



Chapter 10. Field Reports of Psychedelic Paranormal Phenomena



Chapter 11. Surveys of Psychedelic Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences



Chapter 12. Experimental Psychedelic ESP Research



Chapter 13. Methodological Critique of Experimental ESP Research



Chapter 14. General Summary and Conclusions on Psychedelic Parapsychological Research



Afterword: Pulling Magicians out of a Rabbit Hole



References



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sucht / Drogen
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-9160689-6-0 / 1916068960
ISBN-13 978-1-9160689-6-4 / 9781916068964
Zustand Neuware
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