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Tripping

An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

Introduction by Charles Hayes
Edited by Charles Hayes

Introduction by Charles Hayes
Edited by Charles Hayes

Introduction by Charles Hayes
Edited by Charles Hayes

Introduction by Charles Hayes
Edited by Charles Hayes

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    About Tripping

    “Provides the much needed ‘coming out of the closet’ that the psychedelic movement has lacked. These stories will captivate, inspire, caution, and educate. This courageous book exceeds expectations.” —Rich Doblin, President, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

    A collection of transformational psychedelic experiences, and a guidebook for how to understand them
     
    Flash back to a generation ago, when the world of psychedelics still coasted in the gritty, adventurous, do-it-yourself ethos of Sixties counterculture. Hang on for the bumpy thrill ride of the psychedelic experience before it was traded in for the white lab coat of pharmaceutical medicine. Read up on the early anecdotes and field reports that have made ketamine and MDMA the newest drugs in mental health treatment. In Tripping, journalist Charles Hayes compiles fifty narratives of psychedelic odysseys—from respectable Baby Boomers and young ravers to renowned Beat poet Anne Waldman and preeminent spokesperson Terence McKenna—to give readers a glimpse into this transgressive, experimental world of self-discovery. As he liberates psychedelics from their social stigma, Hayes explores ancient Greek rites and ecstasy-fueled raves, sacred indigenous plants and synthetic “smart drugs,” alien encounters and connections with nature, the terrifying and the sublime. A history, cultural timepiece, and resource guide all in one, Tripping is a compendium of forbidden memories whose otherworldly tales and expository advice will provide insight and inspiration to readers even—and especially—now, twenty years after its original publication.

    About Tripping

    “Provides the much needed ‘coming out of the closet’ that the psychedelic movement has lacked. These stories will captivate, inspire, caution, and educate. This courageous book exceeds expectations.” —Rich Doblin, President, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

    A collection of transformational psychedelic experiences, and a guidebook for how to understand them
     
    Flash back to a generation ago, when the world of psychedelics still coasted in the gritty, adventurous, do-it-yourself ethos of Sixties counterculture. Hang on for the bumpy thrill ride of the psychedelic experience before it was traded in for the white lab coat of pharmaceutical medicine. Read up on the early anecdotes and field reports that have made ketamine and MDMA the newest drugs in mental health treatment. In Tripping, journalist Charles Hayes compiles fifty narratives of psychedelic odysseys—from respectable Baby Boomers and young ravers to renowned Beat poet Anne Waldman and preeminent spokesperson Terence McKenna—to give readers a glimpse into this transgressive, experimental world of self-discovery. As he liberates psychedelics from their social stigma, Hayes explores ancient Greek rites and ecstasy-fueled raves, sacred indigenous plants and synthetic “smart drugs,” alien encounters and connections with nature, the terrifying and the sublime. A history, cultural timepiece, and resource guide all in one, Tripping is a compendium of forbidden memories whose otherworldly tales and expository advice will provide insight and inspiration to readers even—and especially—now, twenty years after its original publication.

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    About Charles Hayes

    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… More about Charles Hayes

    About Charles Hayes

    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… More about Charles Hayes

    Product Details

    Category: Essays & Literary Collections | Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $30.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Nov 01, 2000 | 512 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780140195743

    Category: Essays & Literary Collections | Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $16.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Nov 01, 2000 | 512 Pages | ISBN 9781101157190

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    Praise

    “Offers a multitude of perspectives from all walks of life about the psychedelic experience . . . In this new age of microdosing and psychedelic research and experimentation, Tripping is a must-read for anyone who’s interested in consciousness expansion.” – Boing Boing

    “A magnificent collection.” – Alexander Shulgin, godfather of MDMA
     
    “Hayes is such a bristling and intelligent writer that one almost wishes that he had written the whole book himself. The free flow of ideas about these verboten substances and their anthropological/psychological possibilities is exhilarating.” – The Oxford American
     
    “A sensitive and responsible approach to documenting profound experiences with ‘drugs.’ The results of this informal research are both informative and highly moving.” – The Lancet
     
    “Intriguing. The narratives are informative, cautionary, hilarious and spooky. The uninitiated may recoil from stories of visions of goat-devils, the moon as an alien flashlight, and nude escapades at Burning Man, but those in on the book’s implicit wink will find like-minded stories of drug-induced bliss and abject terror.” – San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Readers will find a sequence of first-person narratives (a form at least as old as The Canterbury Tales) that presents, in kaleidoscopic fashion, the last thirty years as refracted through the prism of a drug experience.” – The Chronicle of Higher Education
     
    “We can theorize about psychedelics till the cow patties come home, but there’s nothing as poignant, perplexing, and funny as a well-told trip report. Charles Hayes has gathered together some great ones. Tripping is instructive, hilarious and — let’s face it — enticing. I loved it.” – R.U. Sirius, Mondo 2000
     
    “A classic in the growing body of contemporary psychedelic literature. For the experienced, Tripping is a harvest of inspiring moments and a reminiscence of one’s own deeply shape-shifting journeys. For the uninitiated, it is a profound glimpse into the hidden world of the subconscious and a provocation for wider acceptance of the usefulness of psychedelic states.” – Allan Badiner, Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics

    Table Of Contents

    TrippingNote to the Reader
    Preface

    Part I: Introduction
    The Psychedelic (in) Society: A Brief Cultural History of Tripping

    Basic Features of the Psychedelic Experience

    Methodology and Perspectives Used in the Making of This Book

    Part II: The Narratives
    Aaron: Trawling the ghost stream

    Alice Dee: Highway to the sky: The road seen only by the dreamer

    Anne Waldman: Point and Click: Icons in the window to the ancestral manse

    Brendan: Pealing Faces

    Bruce Eisner: Dazed in the desert at the end of time

    Carl: The wat of the world

    Charles Hayes: Eat the moment (and other stories)

    Charlie: That’s when I realized I was out of my senses

    Clark Heinrich: Heaven (and another story)

    Daniel: I realized I was dead

    Dennis: They don’t show you all this on the top of the mountain just to destroy you on your way down

    Fiona: Unbridled

    George: Saved by the belle (and other stories)

    Gregory: Sinister toys and the Internet of souls

    Henry Bass: Hallucinating the horror of sobriety

    Herbie Greene: Ride the snake and break on through (or) Crashing the snake dance

    Jack: The pinball machine I could play without feeding it coins

    James: Hell’s den and Pan’s glen (and another story)

    Jarl: An early absolution

    Jason: The orgasm death dance (and other stories)

    Jeremy: The schlomus: The price of a moment’s doubt

    John Perry Barlow: My first trip

    Julian: An awakening from within

    Kate Coleman: Then the emotions started happening

    Keely Stahl: The menacing orgasm that almost melted me away

    Keith: First communion with life

    Kenny: How can I die if I’m not here? (and other stories)

    Kevin: To either die or come

    Lena: I’ve definitely been psychotic

    Leonard Gibson: Portals of flame, petals of the lotus blossum

    Leonard Mercado: Psychedelic terra firma

    Malcolm: The Psychedelic is the Center

    Marcel: Is this a trap or a welcome?

    Mark: Sounding the black box of the subconscious

    Mark Fischer: Over the spillway

    Matthew S. Kent: Maha maya: The V in my path

    Megan: A blink of rabbit fur

    Paul Devereaux: Do I want to be seeing this?

    Peter: Everything else was normal (and other stories)

    Philip Cooper: The Cathedral of San Pedro the Divine

    Reverend Marianne: The vision made it real (and other stories)

    Robert Bell: I had a theory who I was (and another story)

    Robert Charles Wilson: The Immigrant’s landing

    Ruth: The apostate’s homecoming

    Sarah: Our Lady of the Eastern Star

    Stephen Kessler: The initiate

    Steve Silberman: the organismic display monitor

    Steven Martin Cohen: A thousand cruise missles pointed straight at my brain stem

    Terry: Loosing the hounds of war

    Tim Page: Memoirs of an acid-salved war photographer

    Part III: A Conversion with Terance McKenna
    Appendix: A Concise Index of Psychedelic Substances

    Notes
    Bibliography and Resources
    Acknowledgments
    Index

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