Author : R. A. Durr
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Tries to show similarity of expanded consciousness under drugs to the feelings expressed in mystic, romantic, and visionary literature.
Author : R. A. Durr
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1971
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Kerry McSweeney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 1998-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773567275
McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informed Wordsworth's, Coleridge's, Thoreau's, Whitman's, and Dickinson's finest achievements and then, when blunted by illness or age, contributed to an attenuation of their creative power. He supplies a "sensory profile" or sensory history for each author and through close readings shows how this profile affected their relationship to the external world and their powers of symbolic perception. Using perspectives gleaned from the poets themselves and an understanding of the physiological ground of perception, McSweeney establishes a compelling theoretical basis for his approach. In clear and elegant prose, he studies the physical basis for aesthetic plenitude - such as the sensory manifold of synaesthesia - not only in the Romantic writers mentioned above but also in two Victorian poets, Hopkins and Tennyson.
Author : Christine Hauskeller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350231622
What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone, as psychedelic experience opens up new perspectives on fundamental philosophical questions relating to human experience, ethics, and the metaphysics of mind. Mapping a range of philosophical responses to the surge in studies into psychedelic drugs in the cognitive sciences, this go-to volume examines topics including psychedelics and the role of governance; psychedelics and mysticism; what psychedelics can tell us about dyadic thankfulness; and psychedelics as ways to gain new knowledge. Written by leading international scholars, the essays cover Western and non-Western traditions, from analytic philosophy to Zen Buddhism, and discuss a variety of hallucinogens, such as LSD, MDMA, and Ayahuasca, in order to build a much-needed bridge between the rapidly growing scientific research and the philosophy behind psychedelic experience.
Author : Timothy Leary
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0806541822
"We are in the midst of a powerful psychedelic renaissance. After four decades of hibernation, the promise of the psychoactive '60s--that deeper self-awareness, achieved through reality-bending substances and practices, will lead to greater external harmony--is again gaining a major following. The signs are everywhere, from the influence of today's preeminent psychedelic thinker Daniel Pinchbeck, to the renewed interest in the legacy of Terence McKenna, and to the upsurge of collective, inclusive (and overtly tripped-out) cultural phenomena like the spectacle of Burning Man. The Psychedelic Experience, created in the movement's early years 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. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient sacred manuscript, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, from a psychedelic perspective. The Psychedelic Experience describes their discoveries in broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan meditation techniques and psychotropic substances."--Amazon.com.
Author : M. Lockwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1987-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349189480
Author : Jim DeRogatis
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780634055485
(Book). Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock is a history and critical examination of rock's most inventive genre. Whether or not psychedelic drugs played a role (and as many musicians say they've used them as not), psychedelic rock has consistently charted brave new worlds that exist only in the space between the headphones. The history books tell us the music's high point was the Haight-Ashbury scene of 1967, but the genre didn't start in San Francisco, and its evolution didn't end with the Summer of Love. A line can be drawn from the hypnotic drones of the Velvet Underground to the disorienting swirl of My Bloody Valentine; from the artful experiments of the Beatles' Revolver to the flowing, otherworldly samples of rappers P.M. Dawn; from the dementia of the 13th Floor Elevators to the grungy lunacy of the Flaming Lips; and from the sounds and sights at Ken Kesey's '60s Acid Tests to those at present-day raves. Turn On Your Mind is an attempt to connect the dots from the very first groups who turned on, tuned in, and dropped out, to such new-millennial practitioners as Wilco, the Elephant 6 bands, Moby, the Super Furry Animals, and the so-called "stoner-rock" and "ork-pop" scenes.
Author : Bob Durr
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2000-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312267292
The remarkable memoir of a man who abandoned the safe world of academia for the Alaskan wilderness and adventure. "Down In Bristol Bay" catapults the reader into this last frontier and onto a sea of storms and dangers and into madcap bars and drinking parties. It chronicles misadventures and follies, occasionally of burlesque proportions, on land as well as at sea. 8-page photo insert.
Author : R. A. Durr
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780312311797
This memoir of a remarkable quest explores a reconnection to the wilds and offers an in-depth report of a radical experiment in alternative living. 8-page insert.
Author : Roger K. Green
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030153185
Arguing that we ought to look to psychedelic aesthetics of the 1960s in relation to current crises in liberal democracy, this book emphasizes the intersection of European thought and the psychedelic. The first half of the book focuses on philosophical influences of Herbert Marcuse and Antonin Artaud, while the second half shifts toward literary and theoretical influences of Aldous Huxley on psychedelic aesthetics. Framed within an emergent discourse of political theology, it suggests that taking a postsecular approach to psychedelic aesthetics helps us understand deeper connections between aesthetics and politics.
